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Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers … cells. The most conserved region in the SPEARE proteins appears to be involved in DNA degradation, and these proteins … (DP150100244) and the Australian Antarctic Science program (project 4031). The work conducted by the US Department of …
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Research in the Woyke laboratory focuses on the utility of single-cell methods to access genetic material of uncultivated taxa of interest. One such effort is targeted at environmental cells that are … A., Hadjithomas M., Varghese N. J., Paez-Espino D., Hungate project, collaborators Perry R., Henderson G., Creevey C. …
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Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works. So a … they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together. The next 3 episodes …
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… of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They are: Ivan Baxter of the … environments. He’s been involved in several plant genome projects through the Community Science Program. As a UEC … active user of the JGI at any time in the past two fiscal years is eligible for election to the UEC. Members serve …
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A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on presentations to peatlands Travis Lawrence sits in … . “There was a lot of freedom to explore,” he recalled. His project involved developing an algorithm and although the … your point across as quickly as possible,” he said. After years of practice presenting his science and learning what …
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… of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to reconstruct and model gene regulatory pathways used by the … complex carbohydrates, and then convert them into simple sugars. More importantly, when faced with a veritable buffet of … proposal akin to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, which is aimed at determining the activity, …
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… (California State San Marcos) about how the Adopt-A-Genome project got started. Plus, Kalyani Maitra (California State Fresno) and two students, Angela and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes. …
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… genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and Leslie Mitchell (Neochromosome) have worked … to replace yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This project has turned out to be an international collaboration, …
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For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in … the primary author on this publication and drove the entire project, Visel explained. She continued working virtually with her JGI mentors for nearly three years after her internship. “That level of commitment and …
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… 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. To put it into context, it would be like a human encountering another human … keeps its DNA more organized. “The big surprise of the project was to realize that these genome copies that are … conducted some microscopy studies over the next couple of years, and realized it was a sulfur-oxidizing prokaryote. …
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