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Genome Insider Episode 2: Role of Viruses in Releasing Greenhouse Gases? (2/2)

Genome Insider is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and TuneIn Radio. Subscribe today! The Genome Insider podcast presents research by Gary Trubl, a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. He’s using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses in the thawing arctic influence the flow of soil carbon. JGI is a user facility of the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science and located at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA. [Read More]

How Filamentous Fungi Sense Food

A team led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to reconstruct and model gene regulatory pathways used by the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa, and to identify and decide on the order in which this fungus breaks down plant cell wall materials including lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose. [Read More]

Genome Insider Episode 1: Role of Viruses in Releasing Greenhouse Gases? (1/2)

Genome Insider is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, iHeart Radio , and TuneIn Radio. Subscribe today! The Genome Insider podcast presents research by Gary Trubl, a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. He’s using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses in the thawing arctic influence the flow of soil carbon. JGI is a user facility of the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science and located at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA. [Read More]

Tanja Woyke Elected to American Academy of Microbiology

JGI’s Tanja Woyke has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology, joining 67 other new Fellows in the Class of 2020. Fellows are selected based on their records of scientific achievement and original contributions that have advanced microbiology. [Read More]

Viruses Reprogram Cells into Different Virocells

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, so the adage goes, it must be a duck. But if the duck gets infected by a virus so that it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a duck? For a team led by researchers from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant metabolic changes in marine microbes, the answer is no. They refer to the infected microbial cells as virocells, a change in name which reflects the metabolic changes they’ve undergone. [Read More]

JGI Scientists Pen Genome Watch Articles

JGI researchers are sharing their expertise in environmental genomics by writing for the column Genome Watch in Nature Reviews Microbiology. In 2018. Tanja Woyke, who leads the Microbial Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea Du Toit, senior editor for Nature Reviews Microbiology, with an unusual opportunity: would JGI researchers consider regularly writing for the magazine’s column Genome Watch? [Read More]

Here, There and Everywhere: Large and Giant Viruses Abound Globally

JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s population, the number of viruses in the same drop—the vast majority not harmful to humans could be even larger. Viruses infect bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes, and they range in… [Read More]

Inspiring STEM Careers Through a Hands-on Everglades Microbiome Study

Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida high school scientists. The Florida Everglades evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer through the waters and clouds of insects hover just above. Described as a “river of grass” that stretches some 580,000 square miles across southern Florida, they encompass a wide range… [Read More]

Expanding Virophage Diversity

Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Almost all known virophage genomes share only four genes in common: major and minor capsid proteins (MCP and mCP, respectively), ATPase involved in DNA packaging, and PRO, a cysteine protease involved in capsid maturation. Recently reported in Microbiome, researchers… [Read More]