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Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold … get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. … as well as the way in which those microorganisms break down nutrients, grow and repair themselves or eliminate …

Kjiersten Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics … closely with staff to understand the data-intensive nature of JGI workloads. Dr. Fagnan was appointed CIO of the JGI in 2016, and in 2018 was hired to be the JGI’s …

Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or … host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with … These include genes that degrade plant cell walls and break down plant sugars. The results also revealed that the most …

Committee (UEC) recently welcomed three new members earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of … the close of the election period, Kathleen Greenham stepped down at the end of her term. In late 2023, the JGI launched …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … “These bits of information sent a little shiver of intrigue down my spine; if CRISPR was present in so many different …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon … oxygen, which is tough on the type of microbes that break down plant matter. This means plants don’t fully decompose …

JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single … in the uptake and transport of diverse substrates, and also photosynthesis genes including potential light-driven proton …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to … Abraham Lincoln once said, “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the …

High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between … The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial … a lot of insights into how plant materials can be broken down for things like biomass and  biofuels . However, AMF …

Six new members have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute … degrade complex polymers that are not easy to break down, as well as developing synthetic biology tools that can …

For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint … as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – … and renovation of Building 310, adding the crowning piece of the entire 80,000 square foot, three-building …

Though visible to the naked eye, microscopy reveals unexpected complexity At first … the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even … it does chemosynthesis, which is a process analogous to photosynthesis for plants.” Another outstanding question is …