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… joined the JGI in 2014 to pursue her research interests in microbial ecology and metagenomics. Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and … training in human microbiome research at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of …

… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … For the first time, a team has analyzed in parallel the genomes and transcriptomes of both partners to better … could help inform efforts at bioengineering symbiotic microbial consortia for bioenergy crops. And because lichens …

… The chromosome-scale genome sequence of trifoliate orange yields clues to disease-resistance that could prove fruitful for saving Citrus from greening disease. You’ve probably never … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… before. In 2006, the JGI produced 33 billion base pairs of sequence; by 2023, that number was almost 717 trillion. … to enable large-scale analysis. The story of a massive metagenome assembly for a time-series experiment from the … Podcasts ,  Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts) Microbial ecologist and JGI user Trina McMahon has been …

… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. … in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can … effects of taxonomic representation biases during marker selection, geNomad identifies plasmids and viruses from …