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… uses single-cell genomics and metagenomics to explore how microbes influence people and the environment. This includes … studying the diversity, physiology and community ecology of microbes sampled from the natural environment. …

… 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, particularly actinomycetes. His research activity … particularly interested in understanding how, when and why microbes decide to produce which metabolites. … BS, …

… for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A … to first target cells from communities of uncultivated microbes, and then efficiently retrieve and characterize … and single-cell genomics, the vast majority of microbes that play key roles in global biogeochemical cycles …

… infections cause significant metabolic changes in marine microbes, the answer is no. They refer to the infected … changes they’ve undergone. The Impact The number of microbes in, on, and around the planet is an astronomical … outnumber them. In the ocean, viruses outnumber surface microbes 10 to 1, and 20% to 40% of the microbes are …

… outline more targeted approaches to reconstruct individual microbes in an environmental sample beyond the … into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was applied to a recent Nature … DNA with isotopically-labeled compounds to link active microbes with specific metabolic processes. A third approach …

Life Group at JGI. And we’ve been working on isolating and cultivating and sequencing extremophile protists from a …