Don't miss our 1.5-day IMG workshop at the #JGI2024 Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting. Learn more about all the Meeting workshops on offer at usermeeting.jgi.doe.gov/workshops/ REGISTER for our workshop and the Joint Genome Institute Annual Meeting at: jointgeno.me/JGI2024_Reg

Don't forget to sign up for our 1.5-day IMG workshop when you register for the #JGI2024 Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting. All exercises will be performed using the IMG web user interface. REGISTER: jointgeno.me/JGI2024_Reg

Don’t miss Belinda Ferrari of UNSW Sydney on “Microbial survival strategies at the limits of life” at this year’s #JGI2024 Annual Meeting! REGISTER: jointgeno.me/JGI2024_Reg INFO: jointgeno.me/JGI2024

Don't forget to submit your abstract to the Joint Genome Institute Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting by Aug. 31st. Submission details provided in your registration confirmation email. #JGI2024 REGISTER: jointgeno.me/JGI2024_Reg jointgeno.me/JGI2024

ICYMI from Arianna Krinos Robin Rohwer Trina McMahon 🌪 Frederik Schulz and others in Microbiome: Time-series metagenomics reveals changing protistan ecology of a temperate dimictic lake. microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

DYK you can sign up for workshops when you register for the upcoming Joint Genome Institute Annual Meeting at jointgeno.me/JGI2024_Reg? Don't miss the 1.5-day workshop on using the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data and workflows at #JGI2024. jointgeno.me/JGI2024

Don’t miss Matthias Hess of UC Davis on “Insights into genetic features that might provide rumen bacteria w/competitive advantages under conditions of methanogenesis suppression” at this year’s #JGI2024 Annual Meeting! REGISTER: jointgeno.me/JGI2024_Reg INFO: jointgeno.me/JGI2024

❗Update: Deadline EXTENDED❗ Poster abstracts for the #JGI2024 Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting are now due Sept. 9 at 11:59pm PT. Submit yours to be considered for a short talk! REG: jointgeno.me/JGI2024_Reg INFO: jointgeno.me/JGI2024 Berkeley Lab Society for Science at User Research Facilities

ICYMI registration is ongoing for the upcoming Joint Genome Institute Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) Symposium in November. Register today - and submit an abstract on your latest viral ecogenomics work to be considered for a short talk! jointgeno.me/VEGA2024

Tick tock: Registration closes Sept.15 for the Joint Genome Institute Annual Meeting! Have you signed up for our 1.5-day MGM workshop at the Meeting yet? #JGI2024 REGISTER: jointgeno.me/JGI2024_Reg

2 DAYS left to submit an abstract for the Joint Genome Institute Viral EcoGenomics & Applications Symposium - don't miss the Sept. 27 deadline. More info at jointgeno.me/VEGA2024 Register: jointgeno.me/VEGA2024_Reg

Reminder that the Joint Genome Institute #CommunityScience New Investigator call closes Oct. 4. For investigators and research initiatives new to the JGI. Proposals may include synthetic biology, sequencing and metabolomics. More at jointgeno.me/CSPnewPI

Registration deadline fast approaching for the SIMB Connecting Microbiome Communities conference in San Diego, CA. simbhq.org/cmic/

👏 👏 Congratulations to the JGI's Frederik Schulz on his recognition as a 2024 Laureate of the Berkeley Lab Director's Awards for Exceptional Achievement, honoring his work in microbial and viral genomics. Full list of this year's recipients: recognition.lbl.gov/2024-laureates/

ICYMI in Nature Microbiology: nearly half of the soil samples used to compile the global atlas of soil viruses came from Joint Genome Institute IMG/M. nature.com/articles/s4156…

ICYMI in Nature Reviews Microbiology Genome Watch from Antonio Camargo Joint Genome Institute: On plasmid diversity and prevalence, and the challenges in accurately reporting plasmid genomes ID'd from metagenomic data. rdcu.be/dXIOU (Art: Amie Fernandez/Springer Nature Limited)

Read in Current Opinion in Microbiology Elsevier | ScienceDirect: "Tapping the treasure trove of atypical phages" review article from Vivek Mutalik and Simon Roux Joint Genome Institute. Berkeley Lab sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Tick tock: Registration closes Oct. 28 for the Joint Genome Institute Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) Symposium. Will we see you there? More info at jointgeno.me/VEGA2024 Register: jointgeno.me/VEGA2024_Reg2

Registration is open for the next Joint Genome Institute Microbial Genomics & Metagenomics (MGM) Workshop, happening April 2025! Details at mgm.jgi.doe.gov

Read in GigaScience: "MISIP: a data standard for the reuse and reproducibility of any stable isotope probing-derived nucleic acid sequence and experiment." academic.oup.com/gigascience/ar…