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… only to cellulose.  Chitin is also a common food source for microbes living within soil. So, the chitosanase protein … AMGs in soil viruses thought to break down chitin, the gene sequences were cloned by the JGI.  The JGI’s DNA synthesis … and AMGs. It could spawn future research into understanding why these AMGs exist in the first place, and what function …

… Twice a year, the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research … Kaze, part of the 2018 cohort of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program. Kaze is part of Mark Sistrom’s lab at … metabolism, work on which she will expand with her study of microbes in California’s manmade water transport canals. …

… Analysis reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, … to bioremediation efforts for decades. Identifying resident microbes that can help bioremediate toxic substances has led … and 2010. DNA was extracted from the samples that were sequenced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

… diversity hotspots Over the past few decades, advancements in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of … genomic biodiversity. Using publicly available genome sequence data generated over the past three decades, their … art of hands-on microbiology and experimental validation.  Microbes run the world, playing key roles in regulating …

… This shorter episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s … UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other …

… A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics complements metagenomics studies. The … between the analyzed community members. The Impact Though microbes help regulate the planet’s nutrient cycles and are … snippets of microbial genomes directly from environmental sequence data, by piecing each genome together from large …

… to develop tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky … collection of UViGs by identifying contiguous viral sequences (“contigs”) from thousands of ecologically diverse … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… Dr. Frederik Schulz joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading … the discovery of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. Dr. Schulz employs multi-omics (metagenomics, … University of Vienna (Austria) PhD Microbial Ecology and Bioinformatics, University of Vienna (Austria) …

… 2022 marks the JGI’s 25th anniversary. Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our … evolved these really tough cell wall materials that keep microbes — and the enzymes that would be produced by …