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… than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, … Science Programs Deputy Axel Visel teamed with University of California (UC), Merced assistant professor Suzanne Sindi … the difficult early stages, so I can begin biological analysis of the data sooner than I anticipated.” In her …

… his backyard in Tennessee — the birds are chirping and a soft breeze ripples through the trees in his backyard. Originally from northern California and one of the first students to participate in the DOE Joint Genome … the inevitable questions about the study’s methods and analysis, Lawrence is spending time on the graphics that …

… The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet … mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot process all of the chemicals they need to survive. To fill in their nutrient gaps, they must latch onto a larger host — often, a fellow archaeal microbe. Understanding how these …

… JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s population, the … 10 times larger. And yet, while they are found everywhere, comparatively little is known about viruses, much less those …

… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … tool will make the right cut, researchers created a set of guide RNAs that were effective against 94 percent of the genes in a lipid-prolific yeast. The Impact The team … . SL and WP were supported by NSF  1526742 . The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …

… You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel … accepted proposals.  The New Investigator call , part of our  Community Science Program , allows us to work and … fungi, the effects of biochar on rhizosphere microbiomes, and the metabolic pathways of algae. They will …

… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More … own food and generate oxygen as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to the development of … integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to …

… Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant representatives of deep subsurface ecosystems. A team of researchers described how the viruses repeatedly … a highly abundant carbon fixer in Earth’s crust”. The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …

… the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, …

… In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among the authors who offer perspectives on what the next five years of innovation could look like. In one article, Micro-Scale … integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to …

… 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 … to swim around. However, genome and metagenomic sequencing conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …

… from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … metabolic changes they’ve undergone. The Impact The number of microbes in, on, and around the planet is an astronomical … was done by the JGI, and proteomics and metabolomics analysis and microscopy at EMSL. The team infected the …