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… Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in … genetic material of uncultivated microbes and link their genomes to the roles they play in the environment. One …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint … all the work that went into this program was the feedback from the graduate student interns; “it changed what I want …

… What if we understood plants and how they adapt to their … food, medicine, and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 database (img.jgi.doe.gov/vr), the latest release of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from metagenomes. He also demonstrates …

… Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science … Program in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team … This work was supported by the Plant-Microbe Interfaces program at the …

… A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling … as a reservoir for carbon compounds that plants generate from carbon dioxide they take in. In this way, encouraging … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …

… More than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, … California (UC), Merced assistant professor Suzanne Sindi from the School of Natural Sciences and started a program …

… A new approach for improving functional annotation in fungal genomes. The Science In a proof-of-concept study, researchers demonstrated that a new … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

…   For years, researchers have known that many datasets miss a key part of microbial genomes: the mobile genetic elements, or MGEs, that can move …

… Dr. Roux joined the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the Metagenome Program. His responsibilities include the … B.S. in Microbiology, Université Blaise Pascal, France M.S. in Data Analysis and Modeling for Life … Neri et al., 2023. Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals …

… Dr. Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a partnership … She earned her PhD in Microbiology and Cell Science in 2011 from the University of Florida, working with Valérie de … PhD, Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida NIH Postdoctoral …