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… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a podcast about the science and scientists of secondary metabolism.  DAN: Welcome back to Natural Prodcast! … so, so cheap to sequence. Right now, for our particular projects, we’re not doing that right now, but we might. I …

Biology is currently experiencing a revolution brought on by rapid developments in genomics and other … 2014), unearthing hundreds of thousands of new viral genomes and their predicted hosts (Nature 2016, Science … of genomes from uncultivated microbes (Nature 2019). Other projects in the group include the sequencing and comparative …

… prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in environments with … including the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … than 400 cultured rumen prokaryotes from the  Hungate1000 project . They also used the tool to predict possible …

… technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput … at a genetic level, how does  Y. lipolytica work? The project was a multi-institutional effort led by … included researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

Blow carried out postdoctoral work at LBNL, where he worked on computational and experimental approaches to study genome regulation in human and other vertebrate genomes. When he joined the JGI, he worked as a project scientist and then as a research scientist on …

… clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … For the first time, a team has analyzed in parallel the genomes and transcriptomes of both partners to better … lichens. Studying the symbiosis by investigating a lichen’s genomes and transcriptomes could help inform efforts at …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … collaborated with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … of Bacteria and Archaea (GEBA) initiative. “This project has helped to define the current shape of the …

Early Career Research Program .   If “BERSS” is not mentioned in the BER funding call, proposals are NOT eligible for … resources for genomic research and sequence-based science.  Projects include de novo generation of genome data, assistance in interpreting and/or building on …

… another episode of Natural Prodcast. Right now I’m working on this the afternoon of the day I’m due to release it, … in terms of their natural products chemistry, and he has a project with the JGI to synthesize the genes for and explore … And it actually was jumping onto the I ntegrated Microbial Genomes and Metagenomes, the IMG platform that JGI has that …

JGI by identifying the actual molecules present in an environment that influence system behavior.  Through this identification, metabolomics enables functional genome annotation, improves understanding of the role small …

Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm … plant host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots … on the fungal Tree of Life through the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project. Hacquard’s group had assembled a mycobiome culture …

Research in the Woyke laboratory focuses on the utility of single-cell methods to access genetic … in the strongly biased representation of sequenced genomes in the public domain, the bulk of which belong to … A., Hadjithomas M., Varghese N. J., Paez-Espino D., Hungate project, collaborators Perry R., Henderson G., Creevey C. …