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… More than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, … Jess Jarett, a postdoctoral fellow in Tanja Woyke’s Single Cells Group who mentored 2018 intern Akshay …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what … are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of … This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Biological and …

… As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … expressing, the team sequenced their RNA transcripts. All sequencing was done through the JGI Community Science …

… Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters … at the University of East Anglia, leads this effort to understand what makes polar photosynthesizers tick. He’s … and metagenome data from the JGI. With multiple threads of evidence showing that zinc has allowed polar algae …

… supercomputing hardware and worked closely with staff to understand the data-intensive nature of JGI workloads. Dr. Fagnan was appointed CIO of the JGI in … 2018 was hired to be the JGI’s Data Science and Informatics department head.  Dr. Fagnan is also a co-PI for the …

… Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when … Chloroflexota lost when they returned to an ocean home. A deeper understanding of how these bacteria evolved could … organisms to swim around. However, genome and metagenomic sequencing conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint …

… The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection Agency declared the North Railroad Avenue Plume (NRAP) a Superfund … PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from a … down PCE into the chemical compound ethene. Applying genome sequencing and analysis, the researchers identified other …

… creating a lively zone called the rhizosphere. In this episode, biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has your backstage …

… Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The Science If it looks like … from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … in one proposed research project. For this project, RNA sequencing was done by the JGI, and proteomics and …

… Analysis of haloarchaeal metagenomes broadens understanding of … hypersaline Antarctic lakes. The Impact By collecting and sequencing dominant haloarchaeal sequences from six … program (project 4031). The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …

… National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a network of field research sites designed to collect long-term open access ecological data to better understand how U.S. ecosystems are changing.  Through the  … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …

… Congratulations to Susannah Tringe , one of eight scientists and engineers who received the 2020 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award , one of DOE’s highest honors! Tringe, a microbiologist, was … Genomics and Systems Biology Division, and JGI’s deputy for user programs. She also leads the JGI’s Microbial …