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… metagenomics. Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and … Initiative. She conducted her postdoctoral training in human microbiome research at the Institute for Genome … at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …

… In late June, Kathleen Lail, a member of JGI’s Sample Management Group, attended a conference in … Florida Everglades ecosystem. There are no roads or real human traffic through this remote part of the Everglades. … and organic carbon concentration. From Field Studies to Publication Together as a class, the students learned about …

… Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida … school scientists. The Florida Everglades evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer … sent through JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system, reached  Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh , …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … resides in the bee’s ileum, a structure analogous to the human small intestine; and  Bifidobacterium,  which dwells … rectum, downstream of the ileum and similar to the human large intestine. Both bacterial clades can metabolize …

… chemical factories. They hold genetic blueprints for dozens of complex compounds, but stay largely dormant under standard conditions. As described in a … never been mapped in this detail before.     The Impact By revealing how a single stress signal rewires a bacterium's …