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… Dr. Frederik Schulz joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His … Krinos et al. 2024. Time-series metagenomics reveals changing protistan … of Earth’s microbiomes. Nature Biotechnology 39, 499-509. Schulz et al. (2020) Giant virus diversity and host …

… More than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, JGI’s Zhong Wang and Science Programs Deputy Axel … students summer research experience at the JGI. On July 26, 2018, the JGI celebrated the culmination of the fifth summer …

… the global diversity of alternative genetic codes (Science 2014), unearthing hundreds of thousands of new viral genomes and their predicted hosts (Nature 2016, Science 2017, Nature Microbiology 2018), discovery of new genes with … from the human gut microbiome. Nature Biotechnol.  39(1):105-114. Schulz F, et al. (2020) Giant virus diversity and …

… Serve the Changing Planet (download a copy at jointgeno.me/2024StrategicPlan .) This plan aligns the DOE Office of … In service of solutions that will impact society, the 2024 strategic plan introduces the JGI’s new vision to lead … path, has previously proven successful; in the 2018-2023 five-year strategic plan, the JGI accomplished 90% …

… the number of known high quality virophage genome sequences 10-fold through computational approaches. By mining more … genome size range from 13.8-29.3 kilobases (Kb) to 10.9-42.3 Kb. Additionally, the gene counts have similarly … Paez-Espino  discussed an early version of the paper at the 2018 Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) Symposium. The …

… Dr. Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a … She earned her PhD in Microbiology and Cell Science in 2011 from the University of Florida, working with Valérie de … biology and reverse genetics to test those hypotheses. From 2011 – 2015, she worked with Sabeeha Merchant at UCLA as a …

… This summer, the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many …

… the discovery of more than 30,000 DGRs in this analysis, a 20-fold increase over what was previously known, throws open … by the U.S. Department of Energy under award DE-SC0020173. M.A.O. acknowledges funding support from the National … R.C. was supported by the Australian Research Council (DP150100244) and the Australian Antarctic Science program …

… three strains of  Zygnema circumcarinatum . Published  May 2024 in  Nature Genetics by an international research … to Land: Plant Evolution to Change’ (SPP 2237), and grant 410739858 in the frame of the project CharMod to K.v.S., as … Council for funding under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement no. …

… The work (proposal: award at  https://doi.org/10.46936/10.25585/60001405 ) conducted by the US Department of Energy … Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement no. …

… Nevada, Las Vegas, and the Desert Research Institute, the 2025 NeLLi Symposium delves into the most recent expansions … is a continuation of the previous NeLLi Symposia. In this 2025 Symposium, we will showcase the latest research on the … than Las Vegas. Participants will be required to pay up to $20 cash to cover transportation and a box lunch. …

… Internship Program, first sampled the area in summer 2016.  She described the microbial diversity patterns of … information,” Ul-Hasan noted. “I spent a good portion of 2016 and all of 2017 looking for  C. californicus across the California-Baja …