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… Lawrence Livermore National Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge … with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots …
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… April marks both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April … 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 …
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… Congratulations 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 …
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… Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements … that reveals in situ functional activities of specific microbial groups within complex communities. The Microscale …
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… Every fall, a mysterious 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 …
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… Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected … of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Woyke has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single …
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… Register here The workshop is addressed to students and professionals of biology, … research, the health sciences and related fields who are interested in learning and sharing concepts, tools and … will be devoted to training in the use of the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system, presented by …
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… Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted 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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… For years, researchers have known that many datasets miss a key part of microbial genomes: the mobile genetic elements, or MGEs, that can move between organisms. But now, deep sequencing and new analysis methods are bringing this mobilome into …
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… Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come harvest time, the cotton fields look like … Science “The results described in this Nature Genetics publication will facilitate deeper understanding of cotton … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …
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… Committee (UEC) recently welcomed three new members earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest … Soil Microbiome SFA. She serves as Secretary within the Microbial Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of … He’s interested in how microbes influence biogeochemical cycles in soils and sediments and plant-microbial …
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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … also helped track and characterize the shifting waves of microbial communities involved in removing different …
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