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The JGI is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers. That’s why each year we look for novel … not led any previously-accepted proposals — through the New Investigator call under our Community Science Program . …

The Prokaryote Advisory Committee is chartered to offer advice, guidance and counsel on the effective management and strategic objectives of the microbial and metagenome programs and report back to them. …

Guiding Principles All staff members of the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) commit to Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s (Berkeley Lab’s) core … the relationships we nurture in our workplace and seek to establish with our stakeholders. In working toward a …

Pictured from left: [Top] Bill J. Baker, Jeff Barrick, Ian Gilman, Louis Graf, … You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel … who have not led any previously accepted proposals.  The New Investigator call , part of our  Community Science …

… crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. These vents are too deep in the sea to get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. … microbial communities could lead to the development of new biotechnologies around clean energy,  biofuels and …

Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes do, how they work, and applying … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the … large-scale functional screens for characterization of new enzymes and use the data we generated to train machine …

Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria (phototrophs) in Antarctica’s Ace Lake defy the norm when it … evolved separately from other similar systems, and offers new clues into a unique environment in the natural world. …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The first … diversity quickly, allowing these viruses to target new microbial prey. The Impact This research provides a much …