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… 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 solve energy and environmental challenges. In March 2008, the genome sequence of …

… We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals … produces an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea … 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that could help us …

… The ocean depths are vast and dark. But there are hotspots on the ocean floor — underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal vents — where lively microbial communities thrive, and even support entire … and understanding how they’ve adapted to this extreme environment.   …

… When local students Maya Hanck of Carondelet High School and Tim Kostolansky of De La Salle High … biology, Robert Evans and Jan-Fang Cheng in the Functional Genomics group took it upon themselves to mentor them. …

… interns from the 2021 cohort describe their deep dives into genomics, computational tools, and big data.  …

… Flavia Winck Vischi, Jennifer Wisecaver, Yaqi You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the … and environmental DNA sequencing to explore microbial and plant interactions across unique ecosystems, …

… further demystify biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those molecules not essential for growth … may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and CRAGE … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome …

… surfaces of plants and their roles in plant health and environmental processes. The Science In a recent Microbiome paper , scientists focused on the conifer needle microbiome. The phyllosphere, which is … do on the leaf surface. More specifically, they found that microbial community composition and functional potential …

… Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers … to experimentally determine that Nanohaloarchaeota are symbionts, rather than free-living organisms as had been … cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial communities that contribute to carbon cycling, and …