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Earth and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science research that feels especially relevant … Tringe , JGI’s User Programs deputy and head of the Microbial Systems group through the DOE Office of Science … Student Research (SCGSR) program . Her research project, “Microbial Community Structure and Methane Production in …
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… to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for … Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority … American Academy of Microbiology (AAM). She has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single …
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… green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the soil. Penn State researchers Mary Ann Bruns and Terry Bell are digging in to understand how. …
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… and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. …
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Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus … a computer could use to conduct a similar type of search in microbial and metagenomic databases. In this case, the … algorithm, the search tool combed through more than 70,000 microbial and metagenome datasets, ultimately identifying …
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We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut … 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that could help us …
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… underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal vents — where lively microbial communities thrive, and even support entire … St. John, Gilberto Flores, and Peter Girguis about sampling these communities, and understanding how they’ve adapted to this extreme environment. …
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Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — … with an email in 2018. Tanja Woyke , who leads the Microbial Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea … three Genome Watch articles. “Given the great expertise in microbial genomics and metagenomics of the …
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In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth … JGI-supported project studying the world’s rivers and their microbial communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River … in how general environmental stressors, um, alter microbial biomass and then what the consequences are for the …
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Dr. Blow joined the JGI in 2009, and currently heads the User Support Analysis … Medicago spp. Msystems 7 (1), e01092-21 3. Baumgart et al. 2021. Persistence and plasticity in bacterial gene …
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