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Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in … Ocean Sciences and as Associate Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Merced. Woyke received a 2014 … elected to the AAM: fungal researcher Jason Stajich of the University of California, Riverside, and virus ecology …

Programs, he focuses on the development and implementation of strategic initiatives at the JGI. Dr. Visel received his … Adjunct Professor at the School of Natural Sciences at the University of California, Merced. Dr. Visel also served as … Tringe SG, Visel A , Woyke T, Wang Z, Rubin EM (2011). Metagenomic discovery of biomass-degrading genes and genomes …

… in the journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across California State University campuses for biotechnology education as part of a course-based undergraduate resource experience. Hear …

… serving on the UEC – go here to view the full roster of members. Each of the researchers had their own reasons … to serve on the UEC. For microbial ecologist Gilbert at the University of California (UC) San Diego, being on the UEC is … (CNRS) in October and maintains a lab at Michigan State University. She aims to help overcome common user …

… tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … said Thomas Mock, marine microbiologist at the University of East Anglia (UEA, UK) and senior author of the … regard,” said Andy Allen, biological oceanographer at the University of California, San Diego and the Scripps …

… the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the Metagenome Program. His responsibilities include the … learning framework to maximize host prediction for metagenome-derived viruses of archaea and bacteria. PLoS …

SIP labwork and analysis can be very demanding.  The JGI offers SIP analysis to make these experiments accessible to … This episode, Rex Malmstrom (JGI), and Roli Wilhelm (Purdue University), share a few different ways they're working to … more reusable, and more insightful, for the future of studying microbial communities.   …

Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  … to S. Cheng and from the URPP Evolution in Action of the University of Zurich, grants from the Swiss National Science … Antoine Claraz Foundation and the Forschgungskredit of the University of Zurich (FK-20-089) to P.S. …

… viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome … is part of another project led by Owen White at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Both projects will build … CheckV , which assesses the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled viral genomes ( Nature Biotechnology , …

… for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national user … and bioproducts. For example, Sabeeha Merchant of the University of California, Berkeley studies the alga  … interactions focus area comes from Malak Tfaily of the University of Arizona. Her team aims to use data from an …