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… The Micro-Scale Applications group explores the genetic makeup of natural microbial communities using a variety of cutting-edge … approaches. Our group also seeks out new approaches that utilize microfluidics/microdroplet technology in order to … The JGI uniquely offers the first quantitative Stable Isotope …
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… The JGI is represented at conferences year round; find out where our researchers …
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… Trained on environmental data, a new JGI tool more accurately facilitates microbial … conducted by JGI users. These datasets include an extensive 25-year study of microbial communities in freshwater … Biological and Environmental Research (BER) missions. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and …
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… by viruses. Research in the viral genomics group aims at improving our collective understanding of ecological and … communities. This involves both experimental and computational exploration of uncultivated viral diversity, characterization of … measurements ( Who is active when/where, and how? ). The JGI Viral Genomics group attempts to address this question …
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… The latest edition of the JGI Progress Report highlights notable … lake east of California’s Yosemite National Park, taken by JGI’s own Jon Bertsch. Microbes isolated from Mono Lake were …
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… The JGI’s Microbial Program focuses on using cutting-edge sequencing, annotation and analysis techniques to explore the vast and … Studying bacteria and archaea, including those associated with microeukaryotes, enhances our understanding of … emphasis on bacteria and archaea, and including those associated with microeukaryotes. The program also studies giant …
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… DAN: Hey, everybody. Welcome back for another episode of Natural Prodcast. Right now I’m working on this the afternoon … natural products chemistry, and he has a project with the JGI to synthesize the genes for and explore the chemistry of … episode , you’ve heard a little about these, and Aaron and JGI are working together to try to understand the enzymology …
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… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as … a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times their dry weight in water, makes up the … The work (proposal no. 10.46936/10.25585/60001030) (A.J.S.) conducted by the US Department of …
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… Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, … the sequencing lab. So today, Chris Daum walks through the JGI’s sequencing pipeline, where there are freezers with …
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… Plants are complex organisms that harbor a fantastic diversity of cell types and associated organisms, including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental microbial pathogens, and associated viruses that all contribute to a … and health. This is a dynamic and complex ecosystem that includes bacteria, fungi, viruses. Resident viruses can …
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… technologies to decode the genomes of microbes in their natural environments. This work encompasses bacteria, … archaea, and micro-eukaryoes, along with their associated viruses and mobile genetic elements. Beyond exploring … the Program aims to unlock the fundamental principles that govern ecosystem processes. This research provides …
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