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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! … Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority …

Dr. Louie joined the JGI in 2014 to develop the metabolomics program, and in 2019 … Rocha UN, Shi S, et al. Dynamic root exudate chemistry and microbial substrate preferences drive patterns in … Sci Rep. 2013;3: 1656. … Education … Selected Publications …

… 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 Terry Bell are digging in to understand how. …

Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as … with engineered yeast cells but then moves out of the cell structure into a cell-free system. The work complements …

For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted several UC Merced students this … Theo Loreaux and mentors Simon Roux and Frederik Schulz, Structure Prediction to Annotate Novel Viruses: the Case of …

… 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 …

… cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple … a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in environmental processes (related to interactions of … cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial communities that contribute to carbon cycling, and …

… and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. …

… 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 … dissertation in life sciences 2006 … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come harvest time, the cotton fields look like popcorn is literally growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the … Science “The results described in this  Nature Genetics publication will facilitate deeper understanding of cotton …

Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help … determine if these fungi act as friends or foes. The Impact Microbial communities comprised of fungi and bacteria can thrive in plant roots. They play key roles in maintaining the plant’s health and diversity, which …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … also helped track and characterize the shifting waves of microbial communities involved in removing different …