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Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and their hitchhikers. The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny … but these symbiotic interactions are difficult to study in the lab. Metagenomics provides new views of these …

… 2020 collaborative FICUS projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, … Nevada mountain range since 2014 to learn more about the microbial responses and feedbacks to warming through the … interact below the ground, influencing the production of microbial greenhouse gases and volatile organic compounds. …

… highlights notable research and scientific collaborations in 2018. The cover is an image of Mono Lake, a saline soda lake east of California’s Yosemite National Park, … arsenic mobility and to better understand their roles in the global sulfur cycle. Copies are available online – …

Ian Gilman, Louis Graf, Yuxi Guo, Shaomei He, Vayu Hill- Maini, Forrest Lefler, Pok Man (Bob) Leung and Huang Li; … and Mar Schmidt; [bottom] Cody Spiegel, James Tan, Emma Timmins-Schiffman, Andressa M. Venturini, Valentin Waschulin, … and environmental DNA sequencing to explore microbial and plant interactions across unique ecosystems, …

… – Jack Gilbert, Ashley Shade, and Jason Stajich! They join six other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here to view the full roster of members. … had their own reasons for wishing to serve on the UEC. For microbial ecologist Gilbert at the University of California …

… are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages … are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Almost all … available metagenomic datasets in JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at … These days, Session is starting his lab at Binghamton “studying polyploids and transposon evolution, expanding on … in more species, as well as modifying this method to study other types of problems surrounding differential …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI … sequence reads to link mobile elements such as plasmids to microbial host cells. In a separate article, research … and experimental approaches with the aim of eventually studying virus-host dynamics in nature. In the last few …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a host, and not just any host will do. … opens the possibility of using phages to engineer microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost …

Through the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship, graduate students Candace Cole, Mo Kaze, Akshay … 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 notable achievements … that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. In March 2008, the genome sequence of the forest fungus …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel … sharing.  Recently, researchers have been able to study both sides of this interaction up close, using RNA …