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… the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even … bacteria aren’t usually visible without the assistance of microscope. “It’s 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. … in coastal sediments,” said Woyke, who also heads the JGI’s Microbial Program and is one of the article’s senior …

… have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of … her institution and Bioenergy Research Centers. Sogin is a microbial ecologist at UC Merced, where her group focuses on …

… before. In 2006, the JGI produced 33 billion base pairs of sequence; by 2023, that number was almost 717 trillion. Last year, the JGI surpassed three Petabases of data sequenced — that’s three-quadrillion base pairs of … Podcasts ,  Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts) Microbial ecologist and JGI user Trina McMahon has been …

… You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel … accepted proposals.  The New Investigator call , part of our  Community Science Program , allows us to work and … and environmental DNA sequencing to explore microbial and plant interactions across unique ecosystems, …

… more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … with an email in 2018.  Tanja Woyke , who leads the  Microbial Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea …

… serving on the UEC – go here to view the full roster of members. Each of the researchers had their own reasons for wishing to serve on the UEC. For microbial ecologist Gilbert at the University of California …

… in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science facility, have increased the number of … available metagenomic datasets in JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which …

… Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to … large-scale multi-institutional JGI projects and resulting publications that Grimwood contributed to include: A 2021 … As well as the seminal Human Genome Project DOE Chromosome publications: The DNA sequence and biology of human …

… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More … own food and generate oxygen as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to … researchers from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Microbial Genome Program head Tanja Woyke of the U.S. …

… ActinoBase offers a public portal of insight into special groups of actinobacteria Streptomyces is more than just a funny … and the focus of a  recent paper published in  Microbial Genomics .   “Studying actinomyces, especially … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… (CSP) . This includes mass spectrometry-based measurements of primary and secondary metabolites from plants, … The webinar featured  Trent Northen and Ben Bowen of the  JGI Metabolomics Program , along with Jenny … Q:  Any advice on normalizing metabolomic data from a whole microbial community, without having cell counts or …

… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key role in determining the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global climate … issue of Nature Microbiology , they mined the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database maintained …