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… food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come … and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial … things like meat, milk, and wool. Hear more from JGI collaborators Sinead Leahy (New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse …

… show which microbes are handling specific nutrients, or what they're doing with those nutrients, and even how quickly. But there's a catch: SIP labwork and analysis can be very demanding.  The JGI offers SIP analysis to make these experiments accessible to …

… 2017 Summer Interns Share Highlights of their time at the JGI …

… described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But … primarily relied on culturing virus and host pairs in the laboratory to study their interactions. This work,  recently …

My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable elements (TEs) contributed to in the grass …

Gary Trubl is finishing his PhD in Microbiology at The Ohio State University, co-advised by Drs. Virginia … Matthew Sullivan. He shared a few thoughts on his summer at JGI through a program that provides graduate thesis research opportunities at DOE laboratories.   …

A mini-episode looking at the efforts of Pankaj Trivedi, whose New Investigator proposal was recently approved through the JGI Community Science Program, to use microbiome science to …

A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As …

The soybean is a crop that could boost biofuels and fertilize fields. So in 2010, … (University of Missouri), Peter van Esse (The Sainsbury Laboratory) and Sebastien Duplessis (INRAE). …

Registration has closed.  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is offering a five-day workshop on Microbial Genomics …

Tomas uses traditional cultivation methods along with microscopy and genomics to study … microbial eukaryotes. He hopes to broaden our understanding of the roles these associations play in the evolutionary history of life. …