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… shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to … cumulatively called lignocellulose, are the primary components of hardy cell walls. It’s the cellulose and … to slowly break down lignin (think of a fallen, decomposing tree in the forest). Because oxygen is essential to how …

Committee (UEC) – Jack Gilbert, Ashley Shade, and Jason Stajich! They join six other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here to view the full roster of members. … had their own reasons for wishing to serve on the UEC. For microbial ecologist Gilbert at the University of California …

Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute … 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 …

Call. These projects include cutting-edge research into microbial communities — from freshwater estuaries reshaped … mats — to reveal how these systems adapt and contribute to global biogeochemical cycles. Additional efforts in metabolic engineering and biocatalyst design …

… at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint … New findings from this line of research combined with past insights will allow the identification of potentially novel …

Uri Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral genomes and occasionally remembering to document his code. At JGI, he develops … viruses – though he'll take a look at anything related to microbial parasites. When not debugging pipelines, he can be …

… hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow  Salix purpurea , employ the evolutionary strategy we are far more familiar with: … and its close relative  Populus trichocarpa,  or the poplar tree, are potential biofuel feedstocks of interest to the …

A quick snippet on Antonio 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 …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help … Science group led by Nikos Kyrpides , mining the Integrated Microbial Genomics & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system’s immense …

Lawrence Livermore National Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated 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 …

April marks both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth and DNA … Tringe , JGI’s User Programs deputy and head of the Microbial Systems group through the  DOE Office of Science …

Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the …