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… genome discoveries. Unlocking the intricate details of life’s genetic blueprint has long been a significant … analyze but also create DNA sequences mimicking an array of microbial life. By leveraging massive user-generated … conducted by JGI users. These datasets include an extensive 25-year study of microbial communities in freshwater …

… is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest for their potential contributions to … as an energy source.  Until recently, our understanding of these methanogenic microorganisms was narrowed to a type …

… archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global methane production. They are thought to use billions of tons of the carbon dioxide trapped in biomass each year … three pathways for methanogenesis: hydrogen-dependent and CO2-reducing, or hydrogenotrophic (most common); …

… JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single … 10 times larger. And yet, while they are found everywhere, comparatively little is known about viruses, much less those … out and characterize uncultivated viruses. For instance, a 2018 study from a JGI-led team uncovered giant viruses in …

… UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first sampled the area in summer 2016.  She described the microbial diversity patterns of … today. I didn’t know anything about Principal Component Analysis (PCAs) when I first started, and overall found …

… Clarivate Analytics, formerly the IP & Science arm of Thomson Reuters, has released their 2019 list of Highly Cited Researchers , which includes 10 … Salamov were part of a team that presented the first large analysis of an Aspergillus fungal subgroup, section Nigri. …

… from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … cells as virocells, a change in name first described in 2011 which reflects the metabolic changes they’ve undergone. … was done by the JGI, and proteomics and metabolomics analysis and microscopy at EMSL. The team infected the …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … Moreover, the discovery of more than 30,000 DGRs in this analysis, a 20-fold increase over what was previously known, throws open … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is supported by the Office …

… Register for the meeting here. Here are some sessions of interest (all times in PST unless otherwise noted): … User Facilities in One Proposal via FICUS December 13 8:12 am Convention Center eLightning Theater IV: Kuno Kasak, … “Microscopic time travelers: A finely tuned, time-resolved analysis of viral and microbial communities in the Erpe …

… still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have … to keep processes running smoothly. As reported August 26, 2021, in Nature Communications , researchers led by Hal Alper at The University of Texas at Austin and Michael Jewett of Northwestern …

… A collaborative team led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis … in France and Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … assimilated carbon into the soil, reducing the amount of CO2 emissions from decaying leaves and woods into the …

… JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 proposals have been  approved through the annual  Community Science Program (CSP) call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to …