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… feedstock crops or model plants. Projects targeting marine systems must clearly demonstrate relevance and …

… genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. Prior to joining the JGI, she was a Bioinformatics … at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as part of the Marine Microbiology Initiative. She conducted her … of California, San Diego ( magna cum laude ) PhD, Marine Biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography … …

… and best practices for characterizing uncultivated viruses. Following up on those guidelines, JGI researchers … as carbon, nitrogen and sulfur are themselves regulated by viruses in their environments. Environmental DNA sequencing … can help scientist to recover the genomes of these viruses and associate them with their microbial hosts. …

… of white. To researchers searching for sequences of RNA viruses in large data sets, their work may be akin to … a five-fold increase of RNA virus diversity. “The world of viruses around us is vast, and we now have the means to … on the planet than particles in a handful of dirt, and viruses vastly outnumber the microbes. Advances in …

… affiliate researcher who uses metagenomics to study giant viruses in cold marine environments and is interested in analyzing genes …

… is using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses influence the flow of carbon in permafrost.  …

Livermore National Laboratory, wants to understand how viruses impact the release of greenhouse gases from Arctic …

Petra is an affiliate researcher who cultivates marine algae infected by giant viruses from subtropical, oligotrophic ocean gyres. She uses …