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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 …

… Sugarcane was the last major crop without a reference quality … world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … The work (proposal: https://doi.org/10.46936/10.25585/60001084 and … conducted by the USA Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute …

… Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Woyke has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single …

… Register here The workshop is addressed to students and professionals of biology, … will be devoted to training in the use of the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system, presented by …

… New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … By leveraging metagenomics to sample the entirety of a microbial community out in its natural environment, … related to clean energy generation and environmental characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated …

… 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. These lakes are isolated, …

…   For years, researchers have known that many datasets miss a key part of microbial genomes: the mobile genetic elements, or MGEs, …

… 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 …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … aim is identifying chemical compounds that could inhibit microbial methane production. Another effort is in using …