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… and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. We develop computational approaches to … genomes from metagenomes, we gain insights into microbial interactions, evolution, and adaptation, ultimately … metagenome combined assemblies (Hofmeyr et al. 2020) we are able to quantify isotope incorporation across a …
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… curator there, with a broad range of experimental work on plants for drug discovery in antibiotics, anticancer, and … a really interesting field that I guess– so I’m more of a microbe guy, and as is Alison, or not a guy, but [LAUGHS] a … better could be perhaps to take deeper looks at the interactions that organisms have, not just within the same …
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… The Plant Program Advisory Committee is chartered to offer … on the effective management and strategic objectives of the plant program. The committee serves as the program's key …
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… of energy and nutrient exchange, as well as microbial and plant responses to environmental changes. With advanced mass … processes, development of high performance plants and microbes, and understanding microbiome interactions. The insights derived are crucial for …
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… was looking to develop new methods for DNA sequencing of microbes. And what kept breaking our methods was these damn … As a host, and a little bit of my newer work is focused on plants, but in both cases, you know, these molecules are how … angry with one another, and trying to unpack all of those interactions. You know, that’s what gets me excited. That’s …
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… and massive reconstruction of genomes from uncultivated microbes (Nature 2019). Other projects in the group include … GEBA-type strains project ), the delineation of host-virus interactions, the exploration of the functional dark matter … resistance. Cell . 184(13):3376-3393 Almeida A, et al. (2020) A unified catalog of 204,938 reference genomes from …
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… the special, natural chemical compounds that you find in plants, fungi and bacteria, basically all living things. … was adjacent to what I worked on, but my experience of how microbes are interacting in the environment like, like my … susceptible to a fungal infection of rye grain – a specific fungus, Claviceps purpurea, can infect grain. And when it …
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… the user and no granting of funds. Proposal Call FICUS CSP Large Scale CSP New Investigator CSP Functional Genomics JGI-TMF Critical Minerals and …
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… pathways, which led her to a successfully funded JGI CSP project. And we also got to talk about work at her … Yeah, so that's a new JGI project. Just came out from a CSP this year. BETSY PARKINSON: Yes. DAN: So how long do you … fun that we've started that is a different subject is from microbes to medicine labs. So this is-- we've been working …
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… has been doing work in secondary metabolism. The very first CSP I ever worked on back in Brad’s lab, we talked about it … was the Salinispora genome project. And that was a JGI CSP project. They sequenced that genome for us at a time … And so we also sequence a lot of fungi, and we sequence plants. And so we started thinking about if we had a …
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… Microbes drive critical ecosystem functions and affect … level. To fully characterize the range of virus-host interactions occurring in microbiomes, these omics data must … of green sulfur bacteria with long standing virus-host interactions. ISME J. 15, 1569–1584. …
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… of this is based on a really great paper that came out in 2020 where this is all explained in detail, so if you’d like … At the end of the day, all the content produced by microbes the result of millions of years of evolution. And … could be a reasonable number if you are talking about a plant and a microbe interacting very stably. So it makes …
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