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Interdisciplinary delegation from the University of Duisburg-Essen explores collaborative opportunities with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) … One Health Ruhr (OHR), and the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging (MBIB) … the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany in 2024 and 2025.  Participants from the UDE were Alexander Probst, …
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Multiple microbial guilds mediate soil methane cycling along a wetland salinity gradient
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Single-cell isotope tracing reveals functional guilds of bacteria associated with the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum
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Thawing permafrost, microbes, and viruses: Gary Trubl — Part 2
Gary Trubl, a virologist and postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses …
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Microbial Genomics & Metagenomics (MGM) Workshop
Registration has closed.  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is offering a five-day workshop on Microbial Genomics … mgm.jgi.doe.gov   This highly hands-on workshop is designed to familiarize users with the Integrated Microbial Genomes & …
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Better Crops With a Pointillist Approach to Plant Genomics
In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from … understand which genes help plants grow, get nutrients, weather drought, and more. And eventually, their findings …
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Benjamin Cole
… studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to joining the Joint Genome Institute, his focus was … by altering their growth program, and on how plants coordinate their gene expression with light and temperature … on understanding how microbes can colonize plant roots, focusing on genetic components required for effective …
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Improved-high-quality draft genome sequence of Rhodococcus sp. JG-3, a eurypsychrophilic Actinobacteria from Antarctic Dry Valley permafrost
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Prokaryote Program User Advisory Committee
The Prokaryote Advisory Committee is chartered to offer advice, guidance and counsel on the effective management and strategic objectives of the microbial and metagenome programs … functions nor does it direct the Programs’ management teams on how to operate and manage the Programs. …
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A Plantiful Future: Xiaohan Yang
Can plants help humans attain a renewable energy future? Can they help lock away … Xiaohan Yang, a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, believes they can. And, what’s more, that using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits …
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Tanja Woyke Elected to American Academy of Microbiology
Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected … genetic code. More recently reported in Nature , she led a team that reconstructed more than 2,000 genomes of large and …
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Mateus Fiamenghi
Mateus’s research is focusing on the identification and analysis of Mobile Genetic Elements from Metagenomic Data.  Mateus’s GitHub …
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