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Dr. Eloe-Fadrosh joined the JGI in 2014 to pursue her research interests in microbial ecology and … datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. Prior to joining the JGI, she was a …

… prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in environments with little or no oxygen, life had … the genomes and predict the metabolic abilities of these microbes. The Impact This study illustrates how the research …

There’s a party in the soil, and microbes are the VIPs. They’re feasting on the compounds … Jennifer Pett-Ridge of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has your backstage pass. …

… exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls within that single beam. When … to see beyond the beam — worse, they didn’t even know how big the room is.  A new study  published online Oct. 11, … Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach to better understand …

… the discovery of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. Dr. Schulz employs multi-omics (metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, single cell genomics and phylogenomics) and machine learning to find novel functions that may impact microbiome structure …

To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and … This episode, we visit Los Medanos Community College to see EcoFABs in action in Jill Bouchard’s BIO 21 lab …

… team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The … before felling their research problem: at a genetic level, how does  Y. lipolytica work? The project was a … CRISPR-Cas9 in order to interrogate each one’s function. However, the team first needed to fix a defect in the …

… into over 1.8 million bacterial and archaeal genomes to see how much of their diversity we've actually captured,” said … art of hands-on microbiology and experimental validation.  Microbes run the world, playing key roles in regulating … Explorations for Understanding the Microbial World Corresponding author Ivanova said that the JGI continues to …