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… After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products … she deciphered function and host-symbiont interplay using metagenomics. Taking on a Research Scientist position in 2007, she switched gears from metagenomics to single-cell genomics, which is now her …

… A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics complements metagenomics studies. The Science Researchers demonstrated … snippets of microbial genomes directly from environmental sequence data, by piecing each genome together from large … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, …

… complexity At first glance, the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even lighter threads in the mix. But in the Petri dish, the thin vermicelli-like … the bacterial cells on the molecular level. They amplified, sequenced and assembled the genomes. In parallel, Gros’ lab …

… Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, … the world. Most of those researchers send their samples in from afar, without ever hearing much about the sequencing lab. So today, Chris Daum …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as … Laboratory, and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team …

… Proposals aim to sequence and annotate genomes from Antarctica to Africa to … Science Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user … aims to study plant drought resilience in the Sahel, an arid region of West Africa. The staple crop there is millet, …

… Innovative technology from this biomanufacturing collaboration is available for licensing. The Science In  Nature Communications , researchers … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute ( https://ror.org/04xm1d337 ), a DOE …

… a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of … which microbes in the soil persist after a wildfire — and why they thrive — gives forest managers more avenues to … builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils …