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… … DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural Prodcast– a podcast about natural …

Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm microbial diversity is wilder than ever. Imagine researchers exploring a dark room with a flashlight, … of doing a lot of unique things when it comes to energy cycles — turning biomass into things like ethanol or …

The JGI is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers. That’s why each year we look for … not led any previously-accepted proposals — through the New Investigator call under our Community Science Program . … could bring key insights into how our planet’s nutrient cycles are regulated, and the ways organisms can adapt to …

With a background in experimental and computational surface physics, Dr. Goodstein held positions at Cornell, IBM, Utah State University, … Physics, Cornell University, NY … RJ Craig et al., 2023.The Chlamydomonas Genome Project, version 6: Reference …

… 2025 Community Science Program Annual Call. These projects include cutting-edge research into microbial communities — from … these systems adapt and contribute to global biogeochemical cycles. Additional efforts in metabolic engineering and …

… tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky … host microbes impact the regulation of global nutrient cycles. The JGI’s latest strategic plan (download a copy  here ) describes how understanding these nutrient cycles can help researchers contribute toward developing the …

… forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature Biotechnology  called geNomad identifies and … They influence the composition of the biogeochemical cycles around them. By understanding more about the genomics …

For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted several UC Merced students this … the level of photosynthesis in a model green alga called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. We’re using an attentive deep …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI … who offer perspectives on what the next five years of innovation could look like. In one article, Micro-Scale … While microbes regulate the planet’s biogeochemical cycles, viruses infecting microbes shape global ecological …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a host, and not just any host will do. … the roles viruses and their host microbes play in nutrient cycles. … This work was supported by the U.S. Department of …