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… critical ecosystem functions and affect global nutrient cycling, however they do so under strong constraints exerted by … parameters driving virus:host dynamics in environmental microbial communities. This involves both experimental and … While an ever-increasing number of phage and virus genomes have been …

… Applications group explores the genetic makeup of natural microbial communities using a variety of cutting-edge approaches.  Our group also … uniquely offers the first quantitative Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) Metagenomics pipeline that utilizes internal analytical standards to …

… Duncan: Yeah. I love actinomycetes. Dan Udwary: Tell us why. I mean, I know, but I think– Alison Takemura: I want to … of almost finished characterizing them. We’ve got genome sequences, which are just incredible. We’ve looked at the … And sometimes, in terms of biological activities– like antimicrobial or something– sometimes a little difference is …

… the process needed to prepare and ship samples for sequencing by the JGI.  Additionally it includes instructions on accessing sample-level reports and tracking … 1) Review JGI sample QC requirements and protocols Obtaining DNA and RNA of suitable quantity and quality has been …

… community at large with access to high-throughput sequencing, synthesis, and metabolomics at the JGI for projects of … scientific research from a broad range of disciplines. Three calls fall under the umbrella of our CSP: The … a range of JGI capabilities, and also requires a Letter of Intent. The New Investigator call is for PIs who have never …

…   The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is a national user facility located at … The JGI consists of 225 researchers and support staff in the Integrative Genomics Building in Berkeley, … from plants, fungi, algae, non-medical microbes, microbial communities, and other relevant organisms. We …

… the user programs at the JGI, and I’m also the head of the microbial genome program. And I’m a scientist here. And have … at JGI start with sequencing, but where else did those sequences go? Like, what are the other scientific tools we … that describe the work. In general. Scientific merit and why it’s important. The DOE mission is one of these …

… of their synthases so that we can start to use the DNA sequence to predict or just understand better the language of microbial cell-cell communication. And he told us about his … your interest in getting into natural products. DAN: Why are you here at SIMB? AARON PURI: Yeah. Thanks Jackie. …

… about the basics of genome mining, which is using DNA sequence to identify and interpret biosynthetic, secondary … biological perspective, like what was this bacterium, and why did your group want to study it? Marnix Medema: You mean … IMG kind of hooks into IMG’s data. IMG being Integrated Microbial Genomics at JGI, a large data set of bacterial …

… there are any kind of dated references to the news, that’s why. But it was a really fun conversation. And I think … it would work, but we actually found fosmids. And we sequenced the whole fosmid at the time with Sanger … what I always expected. Because we know from soil that communities change very much, that whenever it rains, then …

… DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … least, talk to us, first about my definitions of things and why I am wrong, and also talk about some of the great … to approach it is more related to what JGI does, which is sequence genomes. And we just published last year in the …

… the paradigm of how to discover natural products. So, why I’m very excited to be working with Dan, you, with the … develop enabling technologies. ie how to translate the ATGC sequence into discrete small molecules. So, Dan, I’m very … genomic revolution, to me, as a natural part chemist for microbial natural product, is that I love microbial natural …