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JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and … viruses (NCLDV) supergroup. The expansion of the diversity for large and giant viruses offered the researchers insights … roles in carbon and other nutrient cycles. “This is the first study to take a more global look at giant viruses by …

How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science … advances in sequencing technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including … the TV show “Antiques Roadshow,” the guests are often both surprised and pleased to learn the value of their item. Part …

Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global … , both faculty investigators at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. “The goal has been for all this new … flower color, plant height, or fiber yield. To the team’s surprise, even though the major cotton lineages had …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … Congratulations to Jennifer Doudna of the University of California (UC), Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National … Charpentier of the Max Planck Institute! This is the first science Nobel awarded to two women, with Charpentier …

Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when … down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial … a key ecosystem nutrient. The Impact This study is the first to dig into a forest floor ecosystem to discover what …

In 2003, Dr. Pennacchio joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute and has focused … his Ph.D in 1998 from the Department of Genetics at Stanford University where he uncovered the genetic cause of a … of human epilepsy and subsequently generated one of the first mouse models for this common neurological disorder. In …

… pick highlights from their summer experiences. This year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE … experiences and what they’ll take with them as they go forward in their careers.   Listed below are the interns, …

As SIP experiments shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with the prospect of meta-analyses boosted … for researchers in this area. “Surprisingly, this was the first workshop of its kind on SIP metagenomics,” Malmstrom …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple applications.   … microbes in the lab,” noted Stephen Nayfach, the study’s first author and research scientist in Nikos Kyrpides’  …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and … relevant to living on a changing planet. Transcript for Audio Two special days occur in April: the 50th … from Ed Hall, an ecologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. He’s part of a JGI-supported project studying …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … In 2009, researchers at the JGI and the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences described a novel technique to access … which remains unknown and uncultured in laboratories. Other firsts followed. The next year, the JGI team reported the …