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… his Ph.D in 1998 from the Department of Genetics at Stanford University where he uncovered the genetic cause of a rare form of human epilepsy and subsequently generated one of the … Hollaender Distinguished Fellow where he identified a novel apolipoprotein (ApoA5) involved in human and mouse …

… dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has looked for DGRs in a broad range of publicly available datasets. … individual pathogens and pull them out, like fish on a fishing line, without harming the rest of the microbial …

… model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather than for food or fuel applications. The Impact Sphagnum’s impact … permafrost from the warming regional temperatures. For this reason, the U.S. Department of Energy is overseeing … recovering draft metagenome-assembled genomes for seven novel species of Acidobacteria through an approved CSP …

… new computational approaches to identify and characterize novel Mobile Genetic Elements. Eric’s GitHub …

… the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2010. As the Deputy for Science Programs, he focuses on the development and … Planck Institute in Hanover, Germany, where he developed novel tools for large-scale in situ gene expression analysis in …

… welcome, Nadine. ALISON TAKEMURA: What is the big picture for you in your lab? NADINE ZIEMERT: Big picture, I want to … what their role in nature, how have they been selected for or how do they evolve, all those things. So that’s what … it.  DAN UDWARY: Yeah, I feel a kinship with that answer for sure. That is one of the draws for me of secondary …

Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm microbial … unique makeup of microbe players and the functions they perform, artificially replicating a whole community is … each individual microbial species within a community. Therefore, the process hinges on referencing to existing genome …

… how these hosts and hitchhikers coexist is key for understanding their impact on wider ecosystems, but … Archaea, bacteria, and viruses all operate in concert to form the foundation of this deep Earth ecosystem. For example, when certain viruses attack, their archaeal …

Danielle operates the single-cell genomics pipeline for JGI collaborators. This work combines custom flow … PCR screening, and 16S sequencing. She also develops novel flow cytometry protocols for targeted recovery of specific microbes. …