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Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in … methods to access the genetic material of uncultivated microbes and link their genomes to the roles they play in …

… in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … increased the number of known high quality virophage genome sequences 10-fold through computational approaches. By … Virus)—for the virophage marker gene MCP, they were able to identify 44,221 total virophage partial sequences, …

DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2003, following his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley and work in the pharmaceutical … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of … and lignocellulose degradation encoded in the genome sequence of  Schizophyllum commune . Nat Biotech.  2010; 28: …

… design and assembly, strain engineering and bioinformatic tool development/data analysis for synthetic biology and … National Laboratory where he focused on functional genomics of phototrophs. Through this and post-doctoral positions at … with a view to developing a deeper understanding of sequence-based gene function. … B.Sc. (HONS) – University of …

Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The … conventional food crops. For that reason, its genome was sequenced by the JGI in 2009 and it is considered to be …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … the dispersed oil.   Terry Hazen on Oceanospirillales microbes   Terry Hazen Perspective on the Deepwater Horizon …

… three new members earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and … the Ecological Society of America. He’s interested in how microbes influence biogeochemical cycles in soils and …

Dr. Louie joined the JGI in 2014 to develop the metabolomics program, and in 2019 became … efforts to expand the metabolomics capabilities and product offerings for JGI users.  Using cutting-edge mass … rich metabolite profiles from diverse biological and environmental samples in support of user science.  Capabilities …

More than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, … Clarissa Nobile, investigating interactions between microbes and venomous hosts. She also facilitates the …