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… genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. Prior to joining the JGI, she was a Bioinformatics … at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She stepped into the Metagenome Program Lead position in 2017. She also … Rev. Microbiol. 18:313-314. Roux S, et al. 2019. Cryptic inoviruses are pervasive in bacteria and archaea across Earth’s …

… collaborative user projects, the JGI’s Plant Program delves into the natural world’s potential to address global … photosynthesis — the process that transforms solar energy into chemical energy — and its implications for carbon … Additionally, the Plant Program is advancing research into plant-microbiome interactions, focusing on how …

… salinity determine how life thrives in the Arctic, and how different types of microbes form communities. As … significant stress with a higher proportion of dead cells recorded. Samples were taken again at two, six, 12 and … gene expression, to determine which genes are active under different conditions. This was facilitated in part by RNA …

… growth because they had larger genome sizes and their cells were not observed to associate with host cells. In the  Proceedings of the National Academy of … pursued the Nha-C strain for further study, tagging the cells with individual fluorescent probes. Co-fluorescence …

… much damage to the hosts, but they are carriers of several viruses (e.g., Lettuce big-vein associated virus LBVaV; … of Olpidium, however, didn’t receive unanimous support from different analysis. Most analyses strongly supported …

… work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have both … a two-pronged approach that starts with engineered yeast cells but then moves out of the cell structure into a cell-free system. The work complements efforts to …

… forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the … of a recovering soil microbiome provides a window into how to model and track the forest recovery process.  … , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils across different burn severities look like a year after a fire. It …

… mini-metagenomics to these samples by sorting the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced separately. From these … evidence to tie together the evolutionary history of the different types of methanogenesis occurring in the entire …