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Uri Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral genomes … viruses – though he'll take a look at anything related to microbial parasites. When not debugging pipelines, he can be … just "spicy messenger RNA", and that somewhere in the mess of genetic sequences lurks the next cool virus – if only our …

JGI User Executive Committee (UEC) : Roland Hatzenpichler of Montana State University, Teresa Pawlowska of Cornell … to help advance JGI efforts aimed at “understanding complex communities and symbioses relevant to the DOI mission.” …

A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI … behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses …

Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, particularly actinomycetes. … technologies and methodologies that facilitate discovery of new secondary metabolites. Prior to joining the JGI, he … Mol. Microbiol. 87, 1223-1236. PubMed … Education … Publications …

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 …

Congratulations to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van … for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel Prize recognizes … Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority …

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

… 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 National Laboratory, are sharing their expertise in … with an email in 2018.  Tanja Woyke , who leads the  Microbial Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea …

Register here The workshop is addressed to students and professionals of biology, biomedical research, the health sciences … will be devoted to training in the use of the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system, presented by …

Joint Genome Institute works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led … data from two ecotypes of  Panicum hallii and multiple switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) experimental data. Sarah:  …

DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages are small viruses with … in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … available metagenomic datasets in JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which …

We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals … bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that could help us …