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… and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) for “Empowering Automated Laboratories: Integrating … insightful presentations, dynamic panel discussions, informative poster sessions, thought-provoking flash talks, … to stay informed … The JGI and EMSL are U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national scientific user …

… at the JGI’s history, from its beginnings in the sequencing for the Human Genome Project out to the future of the … the FICUS program, through which researchers can access multiple DOE facilities with a single proposal. From the … many more years of enabling clean energy and renewable production — and congratulated JGI on the anniversary. “This …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar … But scientists have wondered exactly how the microbial community carries out its helpful metabolism: …

… is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers. That’s why each year we look for novel research projects — aligned with DOE missions and … of desert grasslands to the metabolic savviness of microbial ecosystems at the forest floor and along ocean …

… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in … in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can …

… (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a previous effort, an international consortium recommended specific … the genomes of these viruses and associate them with their microbial hosts. However, assembling viral genomes from …

For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … genomes and transcriptomes could help inform efforts at bioengineering symbiotic microbial consortia for bioenergy …

Spencer Chair in Genomics at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm … a Yellowhammer Woman of Impact.     Notable large-scale multi-institutional JGI projects and resulting publications that Grimwood contributed to include: A 2021 …

JGI researchers lend expertise to develop tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth … viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome … in developing and maintaining the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomics and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. The …

Gilman, Louis Graf, Yuxi Guo, Shaomei He, Vayu Hill- Maini, Forrest Lefler, Pok Man (Bob) Leung and Huang Li; [middle] … You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel … and environmental DNA sequencing to explore microbial and plant interactions across unique ecosystems, …