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… to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in … Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority …
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… research, the health sciences and related fields who are interested in learning and sharing concepts, tools and research results … will be devoted to training in the use of the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system, presented by …
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In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI … Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach known as DNA … sequence reads to link mobile elements such as plasmids to microbial host cells. In a separate article, research …
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… of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process for … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Woyke has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single …
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… further demystify biosynthetic gene clusters. The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those molecules not … for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired … in overcoming this obstacle when it hit the scene in 2019. Now, that power is poised to grow exponentially by …
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We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an atmosphere-warming gas: … bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that could help us …
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Dr. Visel joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2010. As the Deputy … Computational Biology , Nucleic Acids Research . Over 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals including Nature, … JG, Pratap A, Wang M, Lim J, Tice H, Daum C, Xu J, Northen T, Visel A , Bristow J, Niyogi KK, Wei CL (2015). …
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