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… began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial mats. Along the way, they’ve encountered … new technologies, and made a few discoveries about the microbial mat denizens.  …

The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in … including the global carbon cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial communities that contribute to carbon cycling, and …

… in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of letters A, T, C and G appearing over and over in a … capability; no one else can do it in the world at this scale.” A bottleneck in the DAP-seq protocol, however, is … to these challenges.  DOE’s Office of Science is the largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences …

Lab in 2008, Dr. Northen has had leadership roles within large DOE-funded research programs using mass spectrometry … to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes cycle carbon and sustain biomes via the … … Metabolomics Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

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Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and … studied from simpler (and smaller) models, Miscanthus has a large and complex genome whose evolutionary history and … Understanding the evolution of polyploidy, and how genomes respond to extra chromosome and gene copies, will …

… analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that … a detailed database on the denizens in the soil. While large protein databases, like UniProt, exist, are not … findings also illustrate what’s happening on a spatial scale. Breaking down plant matter by fungi is happening much …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … because they often need unique conditions and a specific microbial host to replicate. Sequencing genetic material … viral genomes, and  this most recent version is six times larger than the previous one . To identify so many genomes, …

UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first sampled the area in summer 2016.  She described the microbial diversity patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal … may be involved in venom activity, which is part of a larger consortium Ul-Hasan has started, known as the …

A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental … and then efficiently retrieve and characterize their genomes. The Impact Despite great strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk community sequencing …

… degradation.  “We are  very excited to see the outcome of the innovative research  being proposed by this year’s … of JGI’s User Programs. “Many of these projects are large in scale and involve multiple collaborators, bringing together …