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… New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components … plant for energy: Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, cumulatively called lignocellulose, are the primary components of … of Energy grant DE-SC0020420 (MAO), Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies grants W911NF-09–D-0001 and …

…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep subsurface ecosystem. The … Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are … the virions out and moving the carbon within the microbial community. These findings also suggest that lytic viruses …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing … But scientists have wondered exactly how the microbial community carries out its helpful metabolism: who’s …

… Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in … have scientists of Dr. Woyke’s caliber support the JGI User community in accessing our resources and help them to push …

… Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with JGI scientists on research projects that contribute to the larger mission of the U.S. Department … Intern: Sidharth Babu (undergraduate) Mentor: Zhong Wang Click the image to watch the video …

… For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. Ray’s vigilant stewardship as JGI’s … as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – …

… to the naked eye, microscopy reveals unexpected complexity At first glance, the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even … Woyke said. “Yet the project took us into a very different direction,” she added. Volland took on the …

… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy … if the gene is actually essential. Through the JGI’s  Community Science Program , the scientists thus set out to …

… environments. The Science Cyclic di-GMP (Guanine Monophosphate) is found in nearly all types of bacteria and interacts with cell signaling networks that … cyclic di-GMP in bacteria through work enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program (CSP) . The Impact Cyclic di-GMP …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable … with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology.   Publications Grimwood, J., Gordon, L., Olsen, A. et al. The …

… Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field studies related to her thesis on cone snails, UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first …

… JGI researchers lend expertise to develop tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and … viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome … with us; and, Make virome data available to the research community. Kyrpides’ project, “ Advanced analytics for …