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…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep … are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant … ecosystems. A team of researchers described how the viruses repeatedly attempted to infect and destroy the host …

… research from potential users who need help translating genomic information into biological function. Through our CSP Functional Genomics call , we look for projects that …

Congratulations to Susannah Tringe , one of eight scientists and engineers who received the 2020 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award , … Systems group. The award ceremony was held January 19, 2021. Learn more here in the Berkeley Lab story.   …

Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages … were found in diverse habitats including the air, plant rhizosphere, wastewater, and even animal and human (for the …

…   On November 3, 2021, the JGI and the Workforce Development & Education … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) hosted a pitch event promoting fully-supported summer research collaborations through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Visiting Faculty Program (VFP) . The VFP is a summer professional …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, … worked with the JGI through a Community Science Program (CSP) proposal, and Rambo’s research builds on that. “The … I wanted to incorporate that CSP, but also look at how viruses might be influencing the methane cycling within …

After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products … and assumed the Deputy Director of User Program position in 2021. In addition to her JGI appointment, she also holds an … Nature Biotechnology 35, 676-683. Schulz et al. 2017. Giant viruses with an expanded complement of translation system …

Dr. Frederik Schulz joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading … of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. Dr. Schulz employs … and complex life. Science . 376: 1453-1458 Nayfach et al. (2021) A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes. Nature …