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… On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was …

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

… Joint Genome Institute (JGI) accepts proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from scientists who translate genomic … research to develop  applications ranging from engineering microbial enzymes that unlock novel biochemical pathways, to …

… tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, … viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome … genetic elements ( Nature Biotechnology , 2024), and iPHoP , an integrated machine learning framework to maximize …

… 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 … And postdoctoral researcher Sara Calhoun, data scientist Stephen Mondo, and  Fungal and Algal program lead Igor …

… Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded 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 …

… the Loretta Purdy Spencer Chair in Genomics at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to … large-scale multi-institutional JGI projects and resulting publications that Grimwood contributed to include: A 2021 …

… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce … same clade as Cyanobacteria, applied strategies other than photosynthesis to gain and harness energy. As reported …

… ActinoBase offers a public portal of insight into special groups of … word. The 500 species described within the group are responsible for roughly two-thirds of antibiotics, and a deeper … and the focus of a  recent paper published in  Microbial Genomics .   “Studying actinomyces, especially …

… Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer 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 … Settlement Biomedical Research Enhancement Funds as part of a startup grant of the University of Nebraska Lincoln, …

… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key role in determining the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global climate for life to … Symposium, discussing the “Distribution of predominant high-temperature archaeal and bacterial lineages in Yellowstone …

… In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among the authors who offer perspectives on what the next five … sequence reads to link mobile elements such as plasmids to microbial host cells. In a separate article, research … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …