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In Hot Spring Microbial Mat, Viruses Ride “Piggyback”
… a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But … lysogeny, they can insinuate themselves inside the host’s genome, living quietly and replicating with their host … researcher at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …
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Danielle Goudeau
… combines custom flow cytometric analysis, cell sorting, genome amplification, PCR screening, and 16S sequencing. She … novel flow cytometry protocols for targeted recovery of specific microbes. …
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Toward More Efficient Artificial Photosynthesis
… including sunlight, carbon and water, to convert them into energy that is then stored. A team led by researchers … (MPI) for Terrestrial Microbiology and the University of Bordeaux have developed a platform that mimics … Program (CSP) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …
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I-Min (Amy) Chen
… data modeling, and biological data management. She was one of the co-authors and key developers of the Object-Protocol … data management infrastructure of the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) family of systems. Before joining LBNL in … in an Academic Setting, SSDBM 14, July 2014 … Selected Publications …
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Novel heavy metal resistance gene clusters are present in the genome of Cupriavidus neocaledonicus STM 6070, a new species of Mimosa pudica microsymbiont isolated from heavy-metal-rich mining site soil
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Genome sequence of the thermophilic fresh-water bacterium Spirochaeta caldaria type strain (H1T), reclassification of Spirochaeta caldaria, Spirochaeta stenostrepta and Spirochaeta zuelzerae in the genus Treponema as Treponema caldaria comb. nov.,
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Whole Genome Analyses Suggests that Burkholderia sensu lato Contains Two Additional Novel Genera (Mycetohabitans gen. nov., and Trinickia gen. nov.): Implications for the Evolution of Diazotrophy and Nodulation in the Burkholderiaceae
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Progress Reports: 2002–2020
Click the cards below to view downloadable pdfs of previous Progress Reports from the Joint Genome Institute.  … FY20 Progress Report … FY19 Progress …
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Training the Next Generation of Talent
DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his summer research at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science user … areas the JGI is interested in. JGI would like to tap into that talent pool. At the same time, this program …
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JGI-Enabled Research Demonstrates the Existence of New Methane-Makers
… is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … enabled by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … and environmental characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and …
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Exploring Polymorphisms Created by Transposable Elements
My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that …
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Marine Microbe Contains Multitudes
A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different … periodically at different depths. In order to determine the genome structure of SAR324 cells and their gene expression, …
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