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Applying Viral Genomics Expertise to Understanding the Human Virome
… in developing and maintaining the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomics and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. The … are likely to infect, and (iii) identifying the genetic traits of the viruses to better understand their roles and … and analyses developed for JGI-enabled research involving environmental samples to help uncover the phylogenetic …
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From Competition to Cooperation
Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal … the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), Hungary’s Biological Research Centre, … the Genomic Science Program, the Office of Biological and Environmental Research in the US Department of Energy (DOE) …
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Simon Roux Named 2025 ASM Microbiome Data Prize Awardee
Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who … and management best practices that have advanced the microbial sciences. The Prize also recognizes innovative and … has changed our understanding of the microbiome and the microbial sciences field. Roux will be recognized at the …
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Duplications and losses of genes encoding known elements of the stress defence system of the Aspergilli contribute to the evolution of these filamentous fungi but do not directly influence their environmental stress tolerance
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Soil compartments (bulk soil, litter, root and rhizosphere) as main drivers of soil protistan communities distribution in forests with different nitrogen deposition
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Uri Neri
Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral genomes and occasionally remembering to document his code. At JGI, he develops tools for … viruses – though he'll take a look at anything related to microbial parasites. When not debugging pipelines, he can be …
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You Can Move, But You Can’t Hide
… forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  … in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can … of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (89233218CNA000001 to L.A.N.L., …
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Draft Genome Sequence of Monaibacterium marinum C7T, Isolated from Seawater from the Menai Straits, Wales, United Kingdom
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JGIota: A Tool to Find the Nomadic Genes that Help Microbes Adapt - geNomad
Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses …
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Hiroshi Otani
Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has … H, Mouncey NJ. New keys to unlock the treasure trove of microbial natural products. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2021 … Mol. Microbiol. 87, 1223-1236. PubMed … Education … Publications …
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A Powerful Technique to Study Microbes, Now Easier
… 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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An Inside Look at How Plants and Mycorrhizal Fungi Cooperate
A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate … interaction that allows plants to better survive in those environments,”  Karen Serrano said. She is first author of … directly to  M. truncatula seedlings grown in a controlled environment chamber, so the fungus could colonize the …
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