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… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. … Lead Nikos Kyrpides at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at … Resource (IMG/VR) , now with more than 15 million viral genomes. It was also key to developing the first version of …

… a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers … Laboratory, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … the JGI and EMSL.  … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in … genetic material of uncultivated microbes and link their genomes to the roles they play in the environment. One … in Nature , applied single-cell sequencing to decode genomes of bacteria and archaea from previously understudied …

… 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , … Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), scientists sequenced the genomes of four  Zygnematophyceae algae, which were isolated …

… the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even … appointments at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … “The big surprise of the project was to realize that these genome copies that are spread throughout the whole cell are …

… begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, … to health, researchers have taken a look at microbial genomes across a spectrum of burned soils. By connecting … they reconstructed and examined over six hundred bacterial genomes — mainly actinobacteria, as well as proteobacteria, …

… to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter … Information, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … RNA Polymerase (RdRP), necessary for replicating the RNA genome replication, detecting it has been a challenge. …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … with researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at … RNA sequencing and alignment to the reference fungal  genome . The study’s pivotal NMR (nuclear magnetic …

Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI … genomics pipeline that provides JGI users access to the genomes of uncultured microbes.  His group also handles the … dissertation in life sciences 2006 … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, … Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … complete sex chromosomes. The results were published in  Genome Biology . The team found that the shrub willow’s W …

During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working … Evaluation of Binning Tools for Microbial Eukaryotes in Metagenomes … Functional exploration of Phage Impact on … Lineage Specific Conserved Genes in Giant Viruses … Pan-genome Graphs: Approaches for Complete Categorization of …

The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest … called natural products . Yet, combing through the genomes of four anaerobic fungal species has revealed, for … and Piromyces finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. Department of Energy …