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New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … lignin.  Researchers led by Michelle O’Malley’s lab at the University of California at Santa Barbara  recently …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic … The planet’s microbial diversity is immense, yet much of it remains unknown. For more than a decade, researchers …

Metagenomic datasets could help map out microbial diversity hotspots Over the … in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global … in Science Advances , researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …

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 … Ocean Sciences and as Associate Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Merced. Woyke received a 2014 …

By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights … across the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis and the University of California at …

Congratulations to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van … Systematics for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel Prize recognizes …

Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus … “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be … in bacterial immunologist Joe Bondy-Denomy’s lab at the University of California, San Francisco. Both are co-authors …

Massie S. Ballon is the Communications and Outreach Manager at the JGI. Prior to … a degree in molecular biology & biochemistry from Wesleyan University, and a graduate certificate in science communication from UC Santa Cruz. She is one of the Biosciences Area representatives to Berkeley Lab’s …

As part of the ongoing partnership between DOE JGI and UC Merced to … Undergraduate Research Symposium , held February 6 at the University of California, Irvine, Cristhian and Bryan were …

Tracing gene regulatory networks in the model fungus  … crassa . The Science A team led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a podcast about the science and scientists of … joined the lab of Professor Craig Townsend at Johns Hopkins University. He does biosynthesis of natural product …

Dr. Eloe-Fadrosh joined the JGI in 2014 to pursue her research interests in microbial ecology and metagenomics. Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and … research at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and her graduate …