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… 25-plus years since the JGI’s inception, making it possible for researchers to get a close look at more ecosystems and organisms than ever before. In 2006, the JGI produced 33 billion base pairs of … to high-quality, assembled datasets from all of this information. The JGI aims to create pipelines, tools and other …

… the DOE Joint Bioenergy Institute and the Operations Deputy for LBNL’s Biological Systems & Engineering Division. Prior … to his tenure with Berkeley Lab, he served in the US Navy for 6 years as a submarine electrician and a financial … Selected for the 2012 LBNL “Emerging Leader Program” at the UC …

… it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a duck? For a team led by researchers from The Ohio State University … on the global nutrient cycles regulated by their hosts. For example, microbes that capture and store carbon in the … is known about virus-infected microbial cells that are transformed into virocells, and how the outcomes of these …

… reductase system, researchers could open avenues for using bacteria to produce ethylene and more.  Microbes … abundant miscellanea of their surroundings. Case in point: for us, the smell of the ocean simply signals we’re near the beach. For bacteria, that salty, slightly stinky air is a rich …

… The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, … process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees to grow. However, fire changes the microbes … store carbon, filter water, and support all kinds of plants and animals, but with climate change driving more …

… living on a changing planet. Mo Kaze is a University of California (UC), Merced graduate student working with  Susannah … Community Structure and Methane Production in California’s Canal System,” focuses on anthropogenic impacts on … on which she is expanding with her study of microbes in California’s manmade water transport canals. Inspired by Randall …

… New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent … called methanogenesis. Methanogenic microorganisms therefore play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest for their potential contributions to a sustainable …

… and Sheree Yao. ] ] The JGI welcomed 14 scientists selected for our 2026 Community Science Program Large Scale call. … with optimized lignin, engineering heat-resilient algae for industrial applications, and developing RNA barcoding … approaches to unravel functional capabilities of plants, microbes and microbial communities, and …

… States. They also provided multiple access points to the information. The team harnessed a community-science program to … available, river-focused microbial resource that provides information at multiple scales from genes to the community … scale models to manage river ecosystems. One application for the information is the development of river health …

… of members. Each of the researchers had particular reasons for wanting to serve on the UEC. Hatzenpichler, who studies … systems, noted that she would like to help advance JGI efforts aimed at “understanding complex communities and … shaping the assembly of fungal endophytes across land plants and lichens, mentioned her interest in guiding JGI …

… UC Merced JGI Mentors : Ben Cole & Axel Visel, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions “The summer internship has … have done the groundbreaking work you’ve been reading about for years! And you can ask them about it! And they’re super … and understandings in the field of genomics. This has reinforced my goal to pursue a career in STEM. I have not had …

… Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) platform — has been developed to help inform scientists and researchers more about the patterns and … high-dimensional data (the 136 tetranucleotide frequencies for each of the 12,063 metagenomes) and reduce it into two …