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… The mission of the Joint Genome Institute is to serve the scientific … pioneering functional genomics to solve the most relevant bioenergy and environmental problems.  The mission of … performance computing (HPC) and data analysis.  The DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase ( KBase ) integrates systems …

… Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The Science If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, so the adage goes, it must be a … outcomes of these infections can affect the interactions within their ecosystems. Summary Microbes drive the energy …

… influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last … Nikos Kyrpides, Natalia Ivanova and Simon Roux, along with data from a consortium that included Susannah Tringe … and evaluates multiple predictions to reliably match viruses with their archaea and bacteria hosts.  Jeremy …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … lead the Forest Pathology and Mycology Laboratory. Together with his colleague Douglas Schmidt and UC Davis professor … was released to the public in a highly-cited 2006 publication in the journal Science . This provided a …

… applied to a recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second … stable isotope probing (DNA SIP) relies on incubating DNA with isotopically-labeled compounds to link active microbes … While microbes regulate the planet’s biogeochemical cycles, viruses infecting microbes shape global ecological and …

… With collaborative user projects, the JGI’s Plant Program delves into the natural world’s potential to … to current problems facing humanity. A major focus are biofuel feedstock species and plant-microbe interactions, … of natural compounds that support disease resistance, with applications in sustainable agriculture, including the …

… Schulz joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His research is focussed on the discovery of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. Dr. Schulz employs …

… archaeal genomes provide new insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key … that methanogenesis is one of the oldest metabolisms, with the first traces possibly at ~3.5 Gy (billion years),” …

… have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They are: Ivan Baxter of the Danforth Center, Sundy Maurice of the … and Kevin Solomon of the University of Delaware. Along with the existing UEC members, their areas of study span the …

… mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and their hitchhikers. The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny … However, no microbe works alone. Archaea, bacteria, and viruses all operate in concert to form the foundation of … the National Science Foundation (MCB-1244557 to J.A.D.) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Sustainable …