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… have been elected to the User Executive Committee of the Joint Genome Institute, a Department of Energy user facility … worked closely with both the Fungal & Algal Program and the Microbial Program over the past decade in gene regulatory …

… is currently a Senior Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab. Since joining Berkeley Lab in 2008, Dr. Northen has had … to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes cycle carbon and sustain biomes via the development and application of advanced mass spectrometry approaches and model …

… are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages … in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … available metagenomic datasets in JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which …

… Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy Spencer Chair in Genomics at the … Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to … large-scale multi-institutional JGI projects and resulting publications that Grimwood contributed to include: A 2021 …

… land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key … Settlement Biomedical Research Enhancement Funds as part of a startup grant of the University of Nebraska Lincoln, …

… 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 … sequence reads to link mobile elements such as plasmids to microbial host cells. In a separate article, research …

… Through the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship, graduate students Candace Cole, Mo Kaze, Akshay … their work delivered during the 5th anniversary celebration of the internship program. Candace Cole, UC Merced JGI Mentors : Ben Cole & Axel Visel, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions “The summer internship has further …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … from environmental samples — to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. These genes were identified based on their … of these enzymes to break down these recalcitrant carbohydrates into more versatile molecules that can be then …

… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  … in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can …

… Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 … insights from metagenomic data. In deep learning, a branch of machine learning, data is passed through algorithms … Lab’s Biological Systems and Engineering), to assign microbial taxa (Andrew Tritt of CRD and, independently, Ying …

… three new members earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of … of the University of California, Santa Barbara. They join eight other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go … Soil Microbiome SFA. She serves as Secretary within the Microbial Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of …