Ocean Microbiome | Genetics & Genomics | Evolution | Algae | Diatoms | Biotechnology | Co-Editor-in-Chief @JPhycology
Norwich, UK & Qingdao, China
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New and evolving user programs will combine genomics with AI, automated experimentation and complementary capabilities across DOE user facilities — giving researchers integrated approaches hard to assemble in a single lab.
More in our new strategic plan: jointgeno.me/stratplanreleas…
ALT JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE Strategic Plan: AI-Driven Genomics to Accelerate Biological Discovery Our goal is to make it easier for users to move from experiments to scientific discovery. By bringing together complementary technologies, expertise and facilities across DOE, we can enable new types of science and help researchers address increasingly complex questions that are central to the DOE mission. Tanja Woyke Deputy for User Programs SCAN to read the JGI’s 2026 Strategic Plan BERKELEY LAB
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There's new hope for reversing widespread coral decline
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China is on a trajectory to lead the world in science, a development that will reshape technological advancement, innovation and the balance of global power
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Big congratulations to our former collaborator Georg Nagel! Thoroughly deserved. 👏 Great for plant and algal research. @Gao_SQ continues to collaborate with us on #diatom rhodopsins. 👏
Georg Nagel – awarded this year’s medicine prize – was born in 1953.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Frankfurt, Germany. He is currently professor of molecular plant physiology at the Department for Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics - Botany I, University of Würzburg, Germany.
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#NobelPrize
Our new paper led by Mengyuan Hao from the Liang group (Xiamen University) just out @Research_Jrnl
The molecular regulation of the silicon to chitin ratio in diatom cell walls and how it contributes to resilience.
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World University Rankings 2027 results announced: Asian universities’ resumed upward trajectory takes them past mainland Europe for the first time, as reputational lustre protects US and UK for now #THEUnirankings
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📣 JGI Releases New Strategic Plan: As AI and advanced computing change what's possible in biology, the JGI is entering a new chapter. "AI-Driven Genomics to Accelerate Biological Discovery" charts a course for the future.
Learn more: jointgeno.me/stratplanreleas…
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Our new co-led work with Guang Gao @NatureComms shows that abrupt pH-shifts to estimate the response of #diatoms to ocean acidification lead to different evolutionary outcomes with consequences for diatom productivity and biogeochemical cycles.
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New study from our lab, out now in Nature Biotechnology: Genome-resolved metagenomics and single-cell genomics have yielded millions of microbial genomes. Could a large fraction of these uncultivated bacteria and archaea be symbionts? We identified genomic signatures of host dependence across global metagenomic data, suggesting that 15–23% may live in symbiosis. The resulting SymGs catalog and our symclatron software provide new resources for studying and engineering host–microbe interactions. nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
On behalf of 108 colleagues and friends from 11 countries, thrilled to share the first paper from our 100 #Diatom Genomes Project (100DGP). Just out @PLOSBiology | @micronorwich | @uniofeastanglia |@jgi
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Antarctic sea ice RNA viruses show lower Ka/Ks values than viruses from under-ice seawater, consistent with stronger purifying selection in the ice habitat. Across 11 metatranscriptomes, Cryppavirales and Picornavirales were the most abundant orders, while Lenarviricota was concentrated in ice rather than seawater. Over half of the viral OTUs were assigned to hosts, mostly fungi and algae, so much of this community may infect eukaryotes living within the ice matrix. doi.org/10.1128/aem.01472-26
Thanks Laurie Henry @science_et_vie 😀
502 millions de gènes ont été découverts dans les abysses : la moitié est totalement inconnue de la science science-et-vie.com/nature-et…
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Royal Society fellowship scheme branded ‘a policy failure’
Awarding of mid-career Faraday Discovery Fellowships exclusively to professors is “genuinely disappointing”, critics say
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Our new paper just out @NatureMicrobiol led by Yumary Vasquez & @frederikschu @jgi @micronorwich
Genomic catalogue of giant #viruses reveals expanded diversity and functional potential
nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
