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… New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science … genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy generation and environmental characterization and cleanup. …

… Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. The … role in soil carbon storage. Summary There are three types of fungal saprotrophs in the forest. White rot can break … to white rot fungi. Additionally, some of the saprotrophic genes found in the mycorrhizal species, such as nutrient …

… closely with staff to understand the data-intensive nature of JGI workloads. Dr. Fagnan was appointed CIO of the JGI in 2016, and in 2018 was hired to be the JGI’s … Methodologies workshops. In 2018, Dr. Fagnan was part of the Gordon Bell prizewinning team at the Supercomputing …

… get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. … five oceanic regions. In doing so, they found a high degree of variability in the types of microorganisms that inhabit … conditions. They identified 511 new or recently discovered genera of bacteria and archaea. Many of the samples shared a …

… synthetic fixation cycle. The Science Chloroplasts are the factories in plant cells. Using photosynthesis, they take … (MPI) for Terrestrial Microbiology and the University of Bordeaux have developed a platform that mimics … carbon captured from the atmosphere in a process that generates energy. The MPI team ultimately aims to develop an …

… Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when … place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . Research shows that flagella were lost in other … loss of cell walls and a complex pattern of evolution for genes related to eating plant compounds in both the oceanic …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Summer 2025 marked the second year of Alabama A&M University students coming to the DOE Joint … experience funded by a DOE training grant.  Building off the previous year’s project, undergraduate interns … project is to determine how mutations in plant transporter genes affect microbiome composition and plant growth. Under …

… Department at the Joint Genome Institute. His team of engineers and scientists builds and operates the data and … science.  Dr. Sneddon is an accomplished leader in data, software, compute, and AI for large-scale genomics and lab … Prior to joining JGI in late 2025, he served as Director of Scientific Computing at Predicine, an NGS-based clinical …

… Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth rates and carbon consumption of SAR11 … isolating individual bacterial cells and amplifying their genetic material, thus bypassing the need to culture these …

… BS – University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Chemical Engineering Ph. D. – … 2024 Berkeley Lab Recognition of Excellence Award 2016 R&D 100 Winner 2014 Berkeley Lab … T., Ruebel, O., Northen, T., & Bowen, B. (2015). Analysis of metabolomics datasets with high-performance computing and …

… Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and … Fellow at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as part of the Marine Microbiology Initiative. She conducted her … at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and her graduate work in …