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… 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 …

… to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter … in large data sets, their work may be akin to finding a single snowflake on a colored-in page of that book. … metatranscriptome datasets from the JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. “We then …

… in developing new methods to improve genome recovery from single cells and to build sequencing libraries from minimal DNA input without …

… Dr. Mouncey joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2017 as the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of managerial experience from almost 20 years in the … biology. Dr. Mouncey has a long-standing interest in microbial genetics that started with his education and …

… The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in … cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial communities that contribute to carbon cycling, and … growth because they had larger genome sizes and their cells were not observed to associate with host cells. In …

… “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be … a computer could use to conduct a similar type of search in microbial and metagenomic databases. In this case, the … inoviruses, which are filamentous viruses with small, single-stranded DNA genomes and a unique chronic infection …

… viruses — to support scientists around the world. Most of those researchers send their samples in from afar, without ever hearing much about the sequencing lab. So today, Chris Daum walks through the JGI’s … with names — but not doors — and robots handle a bunch of benchwork. …