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… use multi-omics (metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, single cell genomics and phylogenomics) and machine learning to … Schulz, C Abergel, T Woyke (2022) Giant virus biology and diversity in the era of genome-resolved metagenomics. Nature … with an expanded complement of translation system components. Science, 356 (6333), 82-85 Schulz et al. (2016) A …
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The Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) call represents a … and expertise of multiple DOE National User Facilities in one research proposal. Successful applications will focus … available from all the facilities participating in the FY25 call, introduces the resources available from the Advanced …
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So I always liked science in school. I wouldn’t say I was one of these people that wants to study oceanography and was … then, chemistry-wise, they’re the stars, right? Chemical diversity, the sheer number of chemicals they produce, their … both of those things have still very much done to be excellently. Dan Udwary: For sure. Kate Duncan: Not that …
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… the in the 50s 60s 70s, most of the exploration of this is done by what’s called “find and grind”. So you would find … in ourselves and every living thing that we know of with cells, and so… So you can think of DNA as maybe being … to be here and be able to discuss this incredible, natural diversity that we have at our fingertips. So I’m very …
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… most of that out. But anyway, here’s our conversation with one of my favorite human beings, Brad Moore. — Dan: How do I … Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Paul Jensen and Bill Fenical. And we connected to JGI through the Community … of, better understand fundamentally what’s going on in the cell as it responds to its ocean environment. And as we …
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Research in the viral genomics group aims at improving our collective understanding of ecological and evolutionary … and computational exploration of uncultivated viral diversity, characterization of molecular mechanisms involved in virus:host interaction and host cell take-over by viruses, and attempts to evaluate …
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Crashing. Maybe it’s what I’m used to thinking of, like someone crashing at someone else’s place. OK. That helps me. Dan … you to get a bird’s-eye perspective on the biosynthetic diversity element of these genomes. And you see how they’re– … are protecting the plants against pathogens. So usually fungal or oomycete pathogens. In this case they worked on a …
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… elements. Beyond exploring and characterizing microbial diversity, work in the Metagenome Program uses several … such as carbon cycling, nutrient cycling, and energy flow. One of the key goals of the Program is to develop a deeper … Further, the JGI partners with the National Microbiome Data Collaborative ( NMDC ) to enable the research community to …
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… what genome mining is, if I want to explain that to someone who doesn’t know much about genetics or anything else, … it has a really interesting biosynthetic pathway because fungal genes are cool. And if you like fungal genes, you … Yeah, bacteria sound like a good place, to me, to look for diversity because there are so many bacteria, because it is …
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… it’s important to me to tell their stories too. If you have one of those stories, or want to suggest someone, reach out … similar to like human crops like corn. There’s low genetic diversity in the crop. So they’re susceptible to disease. … this and deal with it is through these antibiotic- or antifungal-producing bacteria that live on the exoskeleton of …
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… circles in some way or another. But today, we have someone who, weirdly, I haven’t, I think, ever been in a room … I’m talking about is called the Convention on Biological Diversity . And there’s something called the Nagoya Protocol … could be used to treat these highly resistant bacterial and fungal pathogens. And we’ve actually just wrapped up a year, …
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