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Are you an experimental biologist or budding computational biologist? Register by April 7 to join us for a five-day workshop on data and workflows for the JGI's Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) web-based platform. IMG/M provides access to the wealth of public microbiome sequence data and enables users to analyze these data with existing bioinformatic methods — bridging the gap from sequence to biology. WHAT: MGM Workshop WHEN: 4/28–5/2 WHERE: The IGB at Berkeley Lab INFO: mgm.jgi.doe.gov The Society for Science at User Research Facilities Nikos Kyrpides Rekha S.

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?? Deadline Alert! ?? Are YOU ?? an investigator in need of expansive sequencing, synthetic biology or metabolomics capabilities for a DOE mission-relevant project? Considering applying to our Community Science Program! The deadline for CSP Large Scale Letters of Intent is APRIL 10. See below for testimonials from current and former users — including Bruce Hungate of Northern Arizona University — about the benefit of working with the JGI. More information on how to apply: https://lnkd.in/dqgB9tVN DOE Mission Areas: jgi.doe.gov/mission Don't forget to check out our proposal FAQ for LOI examples! https://lnkd.in/giy5A4eN Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab The Society for Science at User Research Facilities Tanja Woyke Nigel Mouncey

Our 2024 Progress Report is out! This year, the JGI served a record number of primary users —?2,475?researchers around the world had active proposals with us, along with more than?15,000?researchers who made use of our data. As of the 2024 fiscal year, we've completed a total of?39,870?projects. In that same year, the JGI also generated?871 Terabases?of sequence, synthesized?9.7 Megabases?of DNA and processed?13,700?metabolomics samples. Our users and their work with the JGI contributed to?247?publications in that same time period. View our 2024 Progress Report in full here: https://lnkd.in/e3RSzhTz Nigel Mouncey Tanja Woyke Kjiersten Fagnan Len Pennacchio Axel Visel Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab

We are excited to welcome six new members to our User Executive Committee! Our UEC represents the JGI user community. It's members are responsible for providing input and advice on JGI policies and practices affecting users and their access to our technical capabilities, as well as our proposal review procedures. New members include Ivan Baxter, sundy Maurice, Aaron Robinson, Maggie Sogin and Kevin Solomon Learn more about the UEC and our new members below: https://lnkd.in/ev2n_juJ Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab The Society for Science at User Research Facilities Nigel Mouncey Tanja Woyke Axel Visel Kjiersten Fagnan Len Pennacchio Sneha Polisetti Couvillion Kristen DeAngelis Jack Gilbert Christopher Schadt Ashley Shade Jason Stajich Lizzy Wilbanks

??Deadline TOMORROW(3/6)??: Gain access to resources from multiple user facilities under the umbrella of one project by submitting a Letter of Intent for the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) call. You can learn more about the FICUS call, and find a selection of webinars, here: https://lnkd.in/gp_esBbn You can also find examples of successfully accepted LOIs at the bottom of our Proposals FAQ page: https://lnkd.in/giy5A4eN Nigel Mouncey Tanja Woyke Axel Visel Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab

Congratulations and good luck to the JGI's Yumary Vasquez, part of our Single Cell Research Group, who will be competing in the National Lab SLAM in Washington D.C. tomorrow, March 5. You can livestream the event here: https://lnkd.in/gnf_gBxV. Yumary will speak about "going viral" in a BIG way — specifically how infections from giant viruses can impact our water, air, soil, even the gut microbiome! To qualify, she previously placed first in the Berkeley Lab SLAM, and second place at the Bay Area SLAM. Learn more about Yumary via the Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab: jointgeno.me/SLAM_Yumary Tanja Woyke Nigel Mouncey Axel Visel

In Nature Reviews Microbiology from Enzo Dinglasan, Hiroshi Otani, Drew Doering, Daniel Udwary and Nigel Mouncey: a review article on advances in tools and workflows leading to rapid microbial secondary metabolite discovery, and how this "renaissance of secondary metabolite research and development is catalysing toolbox development to power the bioeconomy." Read at https://rdcu.be/d6FB1 cc: Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab, Berkeley Lab, The Society for Science at User Research Facilities

In Science Advances: Using publicly available genome sequence data generated over the past three decades, a study from Dongying Wu, Rekha S., Nikos Kyrpides and Natalia Ivanova assesses what fraction of the microbial diversity we know about, and proposes a path forward to curate and cultivate what is still unknown. “We took a deep dive into over 1.8 million bacterial and archaeal genomes to see how much of their diversity we've actually captured. Turns out that despite all the genomes we've sequenced, we've only scratched the surface.” -Dongying Wu cc: Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab, Berkeley Lab, The Society for Science at User Research Facilities

In Nature Magazine this week, a team led by Mikayla Borton and Kelly Wrighton at Colorado State University cataloged the microbiome of rivers covering 90% of the watersheds in the continental U.S. "A project of this scale really demonstrates the power of open, distributed science to address big questions about how microbes impact ecosystem processes.” -Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, JGI Metagenome Program head and National Microbiome Data Collaborative lead PI. The work was partly enabled through the JGI's Community Science Program. The published dataset is available on the Genome Resolved Open Watershed database (GROWdb), NMDC and through the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase). cc: Berkeley Lab, Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab, The Society for Science at User Research Facilities, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science