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… critical ecosystem functions and affect global nutrient cycling, however they do so under strong constraints exerted by viruses. Research in the viral genomics group aims at improving our collective … Genomics group attempts to address this question in natural soil ecosystems by combining metagenomics with other omics …

… DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … find, things that are of interest. And usually, in terms of bacteria and secondary metabolism, those things that we want … disparate environments. There’s some marine. There’s some soil samples. There’s human gut samples. There’s lots and …

… Hey Marcy!  ALISON: Hey Marcy?  MARCY: Hello. How’s it going?  DAN: Good. How are you?  MARCY: Am fine. I live in a … about something I can kind of see like the squid and the bacteria and how the chemistry is going back and forth … organs that solely house– whose sole function is to house bacterial associates. And so the one that the Hawaiian …

… See below for examples of successful Letters of Intent to our Community Science Program Large-Scale Call, as well as successful submissions to our CSP New Investigator, CSP Functional Genomics, and Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science calls. These …

… Dan Udwary: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … on synthetic biology of engineering gene expression in bacteria – however, the professor was actually quite … the action of the microbiome because if you sterilize the soil, the protective effect is gone. You can transplant the …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … And a lot of us moved on to work in simpler systems, like bacteria, where we figure we can make more progress faster, … we’ve worked both with the microbiome. So, with symbiotic bacteria that live in animals and with animal metabolism …

… Research in the Eloe-Fadrosh group focuses on using genome-resolved metagenomic approaches to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. We … focuses on the assembly of metagenomic sequence data into microbial genomes, which is of fundamental value to …

… Using the IMG/M data portal, researchers have identified a … effort, researchers have identified a protein in soil viruses that may promote soil health. The work was … distinct from similar proteins found in archaea, fungi or bacteria. Certain similarities with bacterial counterparts …

… Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth … them back to the lab. The weedy grass was green millet (Setaria viridis), a small model grass with a short lifecycle … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … chemical compounds that you find in plants, fungi and bacteria, basically all living things. When your crazy Aunt … is a chemical compound called geosmin that’s produced by soil bacteria that live all over the place. So that smell of …

… A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, … FTICR-MS analyses were performed under the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) …

… Hey, Alison Takemura: Hey, Dan. Dan Udwary: Today we’re going to talk to Kate Duncan. And Kate is– I should ask, you … biology classes in undergrad, but my PhD was an actinobacteria. And I tell all my students this now, but when I … for amplifying genes. I wasn’t really sure what actinobacteria were. Dan Udwary: Yeah, this all sounds very …