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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 …

… An article summarizing the field of viral metagenomics, authored by JGI researchers Lee … . The following guest piece was written by Call, a postdoctoral fellow in the JGI Microbiome Data Science Group led by … hydrothermal vents – and computationally identifying which sequences represent viruses that were present in the sample. …

… Retracing how the dry rot Serpula lacrymans adapted to a new ecological habitat. The Science By comparing … from similar organisms, researchers have gained insights on why the dry rot ( Serpula lacrymans ) is so destructive in … Serpula species, S. himantioides from Europe, that was sequenced and analyzed by the JGI. The researchers found …

… Panicum hallii genomes offer insights to drought tolerance. The Science Researchers … Through the JGI’s Community Science Program , JGI sequenced and assembled near-complete genomes of P. hallii … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… 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, …

… 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. Grigoriev joined the JGI in 2003, following his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley and work in the pharmaceutical … JGI, a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of …

… 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 …