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Microbiology column last year — and there’s more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) … with an email in 2018.  Tanja Woyke , who leads the  Microbial Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea … “Given the great expertise in microbial genomics and metagenomics of the microbiology-focused groups at the Joint …

During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working … P. hallii Mutant Library … Evaluation of Binning Tools for Microbial Eukaryotes in Metagenomes … Functional exploration of Phage Impact on …

… approaches. By mining more than 14,000 publicly available metagenomic datasets in JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which … virophage marker gene MCP, they were able to identify 44,221 total virophage partial sequences, including over 28,000 …

… to gain and harness energy. As reported January 28, 2019 in Nature Communications , two research teams … Paula Matheus Carnevali was working with a group of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) dubbed Margulisbacteria, … researchers from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Microbial Genome Program head Tanja Woyke of the U.S. …

Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights … into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years … issue of Nature Microbiology , they mined the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database maintained …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among the authors who offer … article, Micro-Scale Applications head Rex Malmstrom and Metagenome Program head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more … sequence reads to link mobile elements such as plasmids to microbial host cells. In a separate article, research …

Paropkari, Vicente Ramirez and Rhondene Wint had summer 2018 internships in Walnut Creek. The students’ research … JGI Mentors : Ben Cole & Axel Visel, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions “The summer internship has further …     Mo Kaze, UC Merced JGI Mentor : Susannah Tringe, Microbial Systems Group “Everyone here is very kind and …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of … paper in the journal Science. It detailed how they’d used metagenomics — a then-novel approach which allows scientists … from environmental samples — to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. These genes were identified based on their …

… three strains of  Zygnema circumcarinatum . Published  May 2024 in  Nature Genetics by an international research … US National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award (DBI-1652164, 1933521), the Nebraska Tobacco Settlement Biomedical …

But scientists have wondered exactly how the microbial community carries out its helpful metabolism: … including collecting and analyzing the honey bee gut metagenome, which was done with the help of the US Department …

… in an online workshop to harness deep learning for metagenomic data.  Metagenomic data, or DNA sequencing data gathered from whole … Lab’s Biological Systems and Engineering), to assign microbial taxa (Andrew Tritt of CRD and, independently, Ying …

… in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can … currently has more than 700,000 plasmids from genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes. To lower barriers to … Science User Facilities operated under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This work also received support from the …