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… DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages are small viruses with … available metagenomic datasets in JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which … Virus)—for the virophage marker gene MCP, they were able to identify 44,221 total virophage partial sequences, …

… June 24-28: Module 2/Microbial Genomics & Metagenomics Workshop The workshop is addressed to students and professionals of biology, biomedical … fields who are interested in learning and sharing concepts, tools and research results in genomics, metagenomics and the …

… Congratulations to the proposers of the 19 proposals selected for the 2023 Community Science Program call of the U.S. Department … recipients on our Twitter. Samples were collected from across a permafrost age gradient from the Fox permafrost …

… team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … Science team synthesized these sgRNAs, cloning them alongside CRISPR-Cas9 into an expression vector to create an … by the Office of Naval Research under grant  N00014-15-1-2785 . JW acknowledges additional support from the National …

… The JGI is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of … of desert grasslands to the metabolic savviness of microbial ecosystems at the forest floor and along ocean shores. Their results could bring key insights …

… at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to North America: guayule.  This episode was made in …

… that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … reference genome for Sorghum bicolor . Since then, 2,993 publications, 107 patent applications, and 53 patents have … Bioenergy Research Center) and his team set out to compare different varieties of sorghum. Initially, the project looks …

… A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. … level — really understand how those two cell types [of two different organisms] are interacting with each other, …

… Dr. Louie joined the JGI in 2014 to develop the metabolomics program, and in 2019 became … for community sequencing projects and heads R&D efforts to expand the metabolomics capabilities and product … Rocha UN, Shi S, et al. Dynamic root exudate chemistry and microbial substrate preferences drive patterns in …

… Methane Metabolism. Methane-producing archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over … recent studies now suggest the gene cluster predates this microbial group. Recently published in the Proceedings of … led us to conclude that our new methanogen did not belong to the Euryarchaeota, the archaeal “superphylum” where …

… Congratulations to Susannah Tringe , one of eight scientists and engineers who received the 2020 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award , one of DOE’s highest … was recognized for “advances in sequence-based studies of microbial assemblies, revealing the roles of microbial …

… Kjiersten Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing consultant, after completing a petascale postdoctoral fellowship at NERSC and LBNL’s Computational Research … methods for reacting subsurface flows, and evolved into scalable methods for scientific data analysis. In 2014 …