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… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … CRISPR-Cas9 relies on RNA with a short guiding sequence (20 bp) that directs the endonuclease where to cut, but these …

… is excited to announce the 18 scientists selected for our 2025 Community Science Program Annual Call. These projects include cutting-edge research into microbial communities — from freshwater estuaries reshaped …

… are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages … available metagenomic datasets in JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which … virophage marker gene MCP, they were able to identify 44,221 total virophage partial sequences, including over 28,000 …

… development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria … to gain and harness energy. As reported January 28, 2019 in Nature Communications , two research teams … researchers from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Microbial Genome Program head Tanja Woyke of the U.S. …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of his research was … Rambo’s work was overseen by Susannah Tringe, head of the Microbial Systems group. He also worked with Simon Roux and …

For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted … Tomas Tyml and Frederik Schulz, Eukaryotes in Extreme Environments Theo Loreaux and mentors Simon Roux and … and the fact that I got to do a project involving over 12,000 fungal genomes was just really, really exciting for me …

Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy Spencer Chair in Genomics at the … Cited Researchers list assembly by Clarivate Analytics. In 2020, she was named a Yellowhammer Woman of Impact.     … large-scale multi-institutional JGI projects and resulting publications that Grimwood contributed to include: A 2021 …

Ian Gilman, Louis Graf, Yuxi Guo, Shaomei He, Vayu Hill- Maini, Forrest Lefler, Pok Man (Bob) Leung and Huang Li; … a list of researchers whose proposals were accepted for 2025. Utilizing the JGI’s resources, these researchers will … and environmental DNA sequencing to explore microbial and plant interactions across unique ecosystems, …

Dr. Cole is interested in studying how plants interact with their environment. … … University of California, San Diego (PhD, 2011) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (B.S., 2006) … List … of Cell Identity as an R package … Education … Selected Publications … Software …

Bob uses single-cell genomics and metagenomics to explore how microbes influence people and the environment. This includes studying the diversity, physiology and community …

… – Jack Gilbert, Ashley Shade, and Jason Stajich! They join six other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here … had their own reasons for wishing to serve on the UEC. For microbial ecologist Gilbert at the University of California … terms. The JGI solicited UEC nominations in late 2022 and the election period concluded on Jan. 6, 2023. With …

A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  announced in  … Mouncey. Using CRAGE, JGI has established a portfolio of microbial hosts that users can select to be engineered. …