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… systems are also everywhere – that there are some very specific patterns and shared DNA across all of these things. … things in the lab, we’re not growing them in their natural environment, we’re not subjecting them to the environmental triggers that they might need to turn a …

… taxa of interest. One such effort is targeted at environmental cells that are from candidate phyla, major … single cells are characterized and selected as based on a specific functional trait or phenotype of interest, prior to … … Research Interests … Former Lab Members … Selected Publications … For further details, please reach out to the …

… data science, and the development of new informatics tools specifically optimized for high-performance computing environments. … KBase is a critical partner in enabling systems biology analyses, such as metabolic modeling, that go well beyond genome annotation …

And we have to focus on one thing to really get into that specific, but that sometimes makes you lose the big picture. … Usually, in a lot of cases, we still have to go through publications to get proteins, and their functions, and all … which is still hard to do. We are mining a lot of environments to see where are environments that have the …

… the world bring us big problems related to energy and the environment – problems that might need special technology … important natural products are to understanding the natural environment, and so our Director, Nigel Mouncey, started and … of Oceanography. He got me into genomics of microbes, specifically of some that lived in the ocean and made some …

… you may have hear over there, with a few more questions specific to secondary metabolites. I hope both versions are … And within the DOE is BER, which stands for Biological and Environmental Research, which is a program that funds JGI … do the bioinformatics and to synthesize these results into publication? So there’s this really important because we …

… (FICUS) initiative, Director’s Science (DS), Biological and Environmental Research Support Science (BERSS), or Bioenergy … PIs or co-PIs) who wish to include use-restricted data in publications, or who wish to redistribute data in any way … repositories until the earliest of three points:  (1) publication of the data (including, but not limited to, …

… and abundant soil bacterium: genetic microdiversity or core metabolic flexibility? … Microbial contributions to soil … gene regulatory networks governing terpenoid-mediated plant environment interactions to enable advanced bioenergy crops … use efficiency across differing moisture treatments … Metabolic processes and trophic interactions in Antarctic …

… actinomycetes form spores and can reside in really tough environments kind of adds a fascination from a biological … fundamental things, like, are we waking them up? Are they metabolically active and slowly ticking away at these … is a whole bunch of information that maybe never makes its publication. And these are little tips, you know, how to …

… coding genes that are signatures for the presence of a specific type of biosynthetic gene cluster. And antiSMASH … to an important enzyme family to which sub family and quite specifically it belongs. And that gives you information that …

… the gut is, kind of. But not the same way this is designed specifically to house symbiotic bacteria. And so that has a … And we’ve done some work with those and have a couple of publications out there on the chemistry. There’s so much … your opinion then on bioprospecting in sparse nutrient environments versus the tropics? Because like you say there …