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… the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them spent the summer crunching genomic data at a … also do some computational analyses at their desks. As part of the DOE JGI’s efforts to promote diversity and inclusion …

… As part of the JGI’s 25th anniversary celebration, the 2022 Annual … sequencing for the Human Genome Project out to the future of the institution. Their talks shed light on how the JGI … excited about in JGI’s future. Find recordings and recaps of these talks below, starting with Ari Patrinos. The …

… 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 … insights into the diversity and important ecological roles of microeukaryotes in terrestrial ecosystems. Additionally, …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be converted to energy, are made up heavily of sphagnum mosses.  New research identifies sex chromosomes …

… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute …

… The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet … mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot process all of the chemicals they need to survive. To fill in their nutrient gaps, they must latch onto a larger host — often, a fellow archaeal microbe. Understanding how these …

… been utilizing metagenomics as a way to study a collection of hard-to-culture microbes, but the efficacy of this approach would be greatly increased by having the ability to reconstruct complete genomes of individual, unknown microbes in the community. Since the …