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JGI@25: Cow Rumen and the Early Days of Metagenomics
… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … from environmental samples — to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. These genes were identified based on their potential …
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JGIota: Looking Back at How Cow Rumen Samples Landed on a Syllabus
… Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the … how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across …
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The United States Culture Collection Network (USCCN): Enhancing Microbial Genomics Research through Living Microbe Culture Collections
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An Enzyme Family that Helped Shape Nitrogen Metabolism on Our Planet
… Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match … bacteria, archaea and fungi. We thought this kind of analysis would provide a framework for the evolution of this … This analysis led them to identify 2,938 putative AT  genes. Within the AT genes identified across different …
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Honey Bee Gut Microbiota Divvy Up Dinner
… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes … — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In … that interested the authors was that an evolutionary analysis of  Bifidobacterium strains in honey bees and …
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CreA-mediated repression of gene expression occurs at low monosaccharide levels during fungal plant biomass conversion in a time and substrate dependent manner
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A sorghum genome-wide association study (GWAS) identifies a WRKY transcription factor as a candidate gene underlying sugarcane aphid (Melanaphis sacchari) resistance
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Restoration of biofuel production levels and increased tolerance under ionic liquid stress is enabled by a mutation in the essential Escherichia coli gene cydC
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The Mutualist Laccaria bicolor Expresses a Core Gene Regulon During the Colonization of Diverse Host Plants and a Variable Regulon to Counteract Host-Specific Defenses.
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Does time matter? Intraspecific diversity of ribosomal RNA genes in lineages of the allopolyploid model grass Brachypodium hybridum with different evolutionary ages
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In silico analysis of the expression profile of AA9 Lytic Polysaccharide Monooxygenases (LPMOs) and the CDH Cellobiose Dehydrogenase enzyme in wood-degrader Agaricomycetes. The Pleurotus ostreatus case
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Tanja Woyke Elected to American Academy of Microbiology
… of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Woyke has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single … developing and harnessing single-cell methods to access the genetic material of uncultivated microbes and link their …
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