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… and Bill Fenical. And we connected to JGI through the Community Sequencing Program, and they worked with us to … we’ve been working with, and so it’s really looking for a needle in the haystack. And so we’ve done some work to try … a sophomore in college, we probably all remember, probably, within the first week of school, you know, our instructor …
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… As a National User Facility, the JGI serves more than 2,500 users that predominately come … by industry. When Director Nigel Mouncey joined the JGI in 2017, he brought with him 20 years of industry experience — and an opportunity to expand the JGI’s portfolio of user companies. Now the Department of …
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… including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental microbial pathogens, and associated viruses that all … how plants self-organize, influence, and are influenced by microbial partners. We use a variety of genomics-powered … Postdocs: Margot Bezrutczyk (JGI Postdoc) Lamprinos Frantzeskakis (JGI Postdoc) Interns: …
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… With collaborative user projects, the JGI’s Plant Program delves into the natural world’s … development of complex biomolecules — which can include antimicrobial and anti-pest compounds. The program is working … interactions, focusing on how environmental stress and microbial communities affect plant growth and productivity. …
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… The JGI’s Secondary Metabolites Program focuses on the … to tap into the largely unexplored biochemical diversity within secondary metabolites, expanding their potential … The Secondary Metabolites Program targets the vast and underexplored reservoir of secondary …
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… active against them, maybe this has a new scaffold and target, new mechanism of action. So what would be great in a … are familiar with JGI’s IMG data portal , the Integrated Microbial Genomics, there was a subsection of that called … trying to use different tools and applications, settings within SMC, are you going to any conferences coming up like …
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… as a new type of medicine that will open up a new year for targeted anti cancer drug discovery. DAN: Yeah, great. Are … not only I say we were able to make use of it, but also the community can benefit from the technology. But even better, … genomic revolution, to me, as a natural part chemist for microbial natural product, is that I love microbial natural …
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… right. So I did a PhD in microbiology at MIT, and I studied microbial ecology. I studied Vibrio species in the ocean, so … worked out that you could get a precursor of it from the needles and then do a “semi-synthesis”. So, you take a … the mentality that I’m looking at it with, you know, it’s within a species or microbial population, you have some set …
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… The JGI’s Metabolomics Program works to uncover the roles of … exploration of energy and nutrient exchange, as well as microbial and plant responses to environmental changes. With … data to gain insights into how small molecules function within plants, microbes, and ecosystems. Identifying and …
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… Applications group explores the genetic makeup of natural microbial communities using a variety of cutting-edge … The JGI uniquely offers the first quantitative Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) Metagenomics pipeline that utilizes internal analytical standards to … To provide additional functional insights into microbial genomes, the JGI now uses laser microdissection to …
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… Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences. A … This is also the type of synergistic and collaborative community spirit that the JGI advocates for and actively … metatranscriptome datasets from the JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. “We then …
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… I did my undergraduate in microbiology and then PhD in microbial genetics in the UK. And came across to the US for … And we were several years ahead of plan with hitting our targets which was terrific. We ended up working with a … product as we think about them in the natural products community, but it was again another product, an organism …
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