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In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth … Earth and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science research that feels especially relevant … JGI-supported project studying the world’s rivers and their microbial communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River …

… – 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 …

Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So … into wasps that program oak trees to raise their young in structures called galls.  In this episode, hear from Kasey …

A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly … Mouncey. Using CRAGE, JGI has established a portfolio of microbial hosts that users can select to be engineered. …

… are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages … are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Almost all … available metagenomic datasets in JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which …

… development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria did; contemporaries Melainabacteria and Sericytochromatia, members of the same clade … researchers from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Microbial Genome Program head Tanja Woyke of the U.S. …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI … who offer perspectives on what the next five years of innovation could look like. In one article, Micro-Scale … sequence reads to link mobile elements such as plasmids to microbial host cells. In a separate article, research …

… land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  … Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key … and multicellularity enabled plants to develop complex structures and adapt to changing environments — ultimately …

Maureen is currently developing new high-resolution and high-throughput methods to link uncultivated viruses to their host. With these new methods, she hopes to expand our understanding of the roles that viruses play in their ecosystems, particularly in …

Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 participants in an online workshop to … Lab’s Biological Systems and Engineering), to assign microbial taxa (Andrew Tritt of CRD and, independently, Ying …

… forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature Biotechnology  called geNomad identifies and … in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can …

… of the University of California, Santa Barbara. They join eight other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here to view the full roster of members. … Soil Microbiome SFA. She serves as Secretary within the Microbial Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of …