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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 …

… A. Estrada-Graf, Nicole M. Fernandez; [Row 2]: Zachary Garvin, Chandan Kumar Gautam, Gareth Gillard, Audrey Goeckner, … [Row 3]: Lisa Kappel, Gayan Kariyawasam; Ákos T. Kovács. Elina Laanto, Rose A. Marks, Daniel Mok, Elise Morrison, Jake … from Antarctic soils and Icelandic hydrothermal systems to coastal wetlands and permafrost. Their work advances genomic …

… 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 …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … green sharpshooter. In 2012, single cells isolated from the microbes found in the oil plume from Deepwater Horizon oil … cell (seen here in a glass capillary), researchers sequenced and assembled the first complete genome of an …

… 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 …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of his research was … research focuses on how viruses influence carbon cycling in coastal mangroves. His work centers on samples collected on …

… 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) …

… JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in … of all the other letters of the alphabet. Yet the specific sequence of these four letters represents an organism’s … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida high school scientists. The Florida Everglades … skimming over swamps, while alligators peer through the waters and clouds of insects hover just above. Described as … Everglades in Palm Beach County, and particularly about the microbes that play roles in the methane cycle. Their data …