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The JGI’s Microbial Program focuses on using cutting-edge sequencing, … with microeukaryotes. The program also studies giant viruses. Key research areas include terrestrial … resource featuring the largest collection of plasmids automatically identified from genomes, metagenomes, and …

… team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those …

… program for faculty to “claim” the JGI’s unpublished microbial genomes, with the expectation that faculty will … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, builds upon thousands of microbial genomes that have been sequenced by the JGI though … sequences of key bacterial symbionts of entomopathogenic nematodes: Xenorhabdus cabanillasii DSM17905, Xenorhabdus …

… genetic elements. Beyond exploring and characterizing microbial diversity, work in the Metagenome Program uses … DNA in natural environments, the Program provides a snapshot of microbial diversity and their metabolic functional … of uncultivated microbial lineages. Charting viral ‘dark matter’:   Viruses are abundant in the biosphere and …

… genomic data and serving them to users via the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. Research Team    … The Integrated Microbial Genomes group is focused on:  Developing … on multicore and many core architectures with the ultimate objective of facilitating omics-based scientific …

… interactions, the exploration of the functional dark matter as well as the development of novel methods to enable … A global metagenomic map of urban microbiomes and antimicrobial resistance. Cell . 184(13):3376-3393 Almeida A, et … reveals a new bacterial candidate phylum in geothermal springs.  Nature Commun. 7:10476 Varghese NJ,  et al. …

… however they do so under strong constraints exerted by viruses. Research in the viral genomics group aims at … parameters driving virus:host dynamics in environmental microbial communities. This involves both experimental and … 4 , 1895–1906 Roux, S. et al. (2019) Minimum Information about an Uncultivated Virus Genome (MIUViG).  Nature …

… bioactivity, and new uses for these peptides in medicine or materials science or really anything you can use peptides … because it was too long. Well, when we went looking for a photo of John, we found one from the 70s in the Scripps … to uncover. DAN:  So you’ve also done a lot of work on cone snails. I’ve seen you give a few talks on that. Can you …

… approaches to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. We develop computational approaches to sift through … of metagenomes for signatures of viruses and novel microbial lineages, and reconstruct metabolic properties …

The JGI’s Metabolomics Program works to uncover the roles of small molecules in biological systems, linking them with … exploration of energy and nutrient exchange, as well as microbial and plant responses to environmental changes. With … processes and the bioeconomy including understanding enzymatic transformations, pathways, and how changes in …

Canada. This is the last of the podcasts we recorded in my hotel room at SIMB, or the Society for Industrial … better connect those two things, because I think that’s ultimately what needs to happen if we’re really going to … to try and create an open source database of all known microbial natural products. So if you think about natural …

… to predict or just understand better the language of microbial cell-cell communication. And he told us about his … as tool building. So I worked with a really great guy named Matt Bogyo in grad school synthesizing activity based probes … them I think. Because E. coli does not have the substrate pool. DAN: The weird precursors, yeah. AARON PURI: So in …