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Frigoriflavimonas asaccharolytica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel psychrophilic esterase and protease producing bacterium isolated from Antarctica
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Ray Turner Completes Last Tour of Lab Duty at JGI
… last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. Ray’s vigilant … Division and then to Chief Operating Officer for the Joint BioEnergy Institute and Deputy for Operations Biological … genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy generation and environmental characterization and cleanup. …
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Medium-Chain Fatty Acid Synthesis by “Candidatus Weimeria bifida” gen. nov., sp. nov., and “Candidatus Pseudoramibacter fermentans” sp. nov.
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Novel spore-forming species exhibiting intrinsic resistance to third- and fourth-generation cephalosporins and description of Tigheibacillus jepli gen. nov., sp. nov.
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Draft genome and description of Consotaella salsifontis gen. nov. sp. nov., a halophilic, free-living, nitrogen-fixing alphaproteobacterium isolated from an ancient terrestrial saline spring
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Arboriscoccus pini gen. nov., sp. nov., an endophyte from a pine tree of the class Alphaproteobacteria, emended description of Geminicoccus roseus, and proposal of Geminicoccaceae fam. nov.
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Tanja Woyke
… After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their derivatives during her Ph.D. in Microbiology at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen … to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  … leadership and oversight for all of the JGI user programs, including the Community Science Program and Emerging …
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Complete genome sequence of the thermophilic, hydrogen-oxidizing Bacillus tusciae type strain (T2T) and reclassification in the new genus, Kyrpidia gen. nov. as Kyrpidia tusciae comb. nov. and emendation of the family Alicyclobacillaceae da Costa and
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JGI@25: Cow Rumen and the Early Days of Metagenomics
… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … environmental samples — to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. These genes were identified based on their potential to …
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JGI-UC Merced Interns Share Their 2021 Experiences
… During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous … Blurring the Line Between Plasmids and Phages … Evolution of the Mitochondria Internship … Cross Species Integration of Single Cell Transcriptomes …
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The Expanding Universe of Methane Metabolisms in Archaea
… Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse … of the Institut Pasteur in France, the importance of methanogenesis and the presence of methanogens in nearly all types … well as tools for analysis. “There is evidence that methanogenesis is one of the oldest metabolisms, with the first …
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Finding the Fermenters
… Harnessing BER-funded data resources, researchers built an … at the University of California, Davis and UC Santa Barbara generated a list of prokaryotes with fermentative metabolism … IMG data portals to get information about the genomes and genes of the organisms on the list. They also searched IMG/M …
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