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July 16, 2020

Engagement Webinar: What Can You Do With An Approved CSP Functional Genomics Call Proposal?

During the JGI Engagement: Accessing Functional Genomics Capabilities Webinar, researchers described how they had availed of JGI’s resources and capabilities through the Community Science Program’s Functional Genomics call for proposals. [Read More]

June 30, 2020

Ray Turner Completes Last Tour of Lab Duty at JGI

For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. His vigilant stewardship as JGI’s Operations Deputy has come to a close. [Read More]

April 29, 2020

JGI Earth Month: The Unusual Metabolism That Helps Plants Withstand Drought

For JGI Earth Month, Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa shares how crassulacean acid metabolism, or CAM, helps plants take the heat. [Read More]

April 28, 2020

JGI Earth Month: Wetlands Work in #TenHundredWords

For JGI Earth Month, graduate student Mo Kaze took on the challenge of explaining her research using the ten hundred most commonly used words in the English language. Her work focuses anthropogenic impacts on wetland microbiome composition and metabolism. The #TenHundredWords Challenge was inspired by Randall Munroe’s xkcd comic “Up Goer Five” and his subsequent book Thing Explainer. [Read More]

April 22, 2020

JGI Earth Month: Lessons in Nature’s Resilience

As part of JGI Earth Month, revisiting lessons in Nature’s resilience resulting from studies by Berkeley Lab researchers, including JGI scientists, to understand how the microbial communities in the waters responded to the influx of oil. [Read More]

April 21, 2020

JGI Earth Month: Healthy Streams, Nutritious Microbes?

As part of JGI Earth Month, hear from Ed Hall, an ecologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. He’s investigating how microbes in the Arkansas River might be influencing the river’s health. [Read More]

April 14, 2020

JGI Earth Month: Kjiersten Fagnan Reflects on Shelter-in-Place Effects

In this brief captioned video, JGI Chief Informatics Officer Kjiersten Fagnan reflects on the personal and environmental impacts of the shelter-in-place order as part of JGI Earth Month. [Read More]

February 21, 2020

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]

February 4, 2020

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]

December 23, 2019

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]