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… An article summarizing the field of viral metagenomics, authored by JGI researchers Lee Call,  … world have been forced to confront the awesome power that viruses have to affect nearly every aspect of our daily lives.  But for researchers who study viruses that infect organisms much smaller than humans, like …

… products from the Great Salt Lake, and you’re going to learn, like me, what a “haboob” is. Then, we switch … just not enough time and money. I mean, we have a huge marine fungal project in collaboration with Bill Fenical at … genome right now. But eventually, it will be– it could be a viral sequence. It could be a contig. It could be whatever …

… on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of … lending their expertise in developing and managing public viral genomics resources such as analytical tools and data … Biotechnology , 2024), and iPHoP , an integrated machine learning framework to maximize host prediction for …

… kinds of organisms, from plants and fungi to microbes and viruses. Listen in to explore the data that illuminates …

… product dioxin ubiquinone, which actually comes from a marine bacterium. And so, I was working on chemically … And on the one hand, it was really great training and I learned a lot. But oftentimes, it would be very frustrating … lab, I got great exposure to working with Streptomyces, learning more about genome mining, as well as isolation and …

… expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could … dubbed “Klosneuviruses.” Previously known members of the viral lineages in the NCLDV group infect mainly protists and … to viral lineages, and predominantly in samples from marine (55%) and freshwater (40%) environments. As a result, …

… Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The Science If it … how virus infections cause significant metabolic changes in marine microbes, the answer is no. They refer to the … how nutrient availability, or lack thereof, impacts viral infection and the metabolism of the resulting …

… work — have quickly accelerated understanding of giant viruses. The Science In the last thirty years, in … nutrient cycling and carbon storage. For example, the marine algae  Emiliania huxleyi, a microeukaryote, forms … In 2020, a JGI-led team used this approach to deliver novel viral genomes from freshwater, sewage, and marine samples. …

… physical disability, you’re gonna love it and enjoy it and learn a ton. And for those of us who already work in natural … spike protein and the ACE2 receptor, so we’re looking at viral entry inhibitors. But the other important part of our … on plant natural products. Rich, rich in bacterial and marine stuff. So we need more people annotating. It will …

… In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those … methods for the first time to comprehensively characterize viral-host interactions. The team discovered that the mat’s … instead of lysing them, which appears to be prevalent in marine environments, they were predicted to simply abide …

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… Dr. Roux joined the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the Metagenome Program. … the design of new experimental approaches to link viruses to their host(s), collaboration with JGI users for analyzing viral datasets, and the organization of community-building …