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Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm microbial diversity is wilder than ever. Imagine researchers exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly …

… of natural products, Professor Bill Fenical from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. Bill is a pioneer … why it’s so hard to succeed, and we talk about an ongoing project I’ve been working with him on as an exploration into … as a postdoc working under Brad Moore on the Salinispora project,  so this is pretty comfortable territory for us, …

Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial …

… we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to drive more productive food, medicine, and … are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria (phototrophs) in Antarctica’s Ace Lake defy the norm when it comes to … (DP150100244) and the Australian Antarctic Science program (project 4031). The work conducted by the US Department of …

Since 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the DNA synthesis platform at the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three groups focused on … 10, 2743-2769. 2015 Blaby et. al., The Chlamydomonas genome project: a decade on. Trends in plant science . 19: 10, …

… cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple … microbiology and ‘omics techniques to experimentally determine that Nanohaloarchaeota are symbionts, rather than … (DP150100244) and the Australian Antarctic Science program (project 4031). The work conducted by the US Department of …

Research in the Woyke laboratory focuses on the utility of single-cell methods to access genetic material of … A., Hadjithomas M., Varghese N. J., Paez-Espino D., Hungate project, collaborators Perry R., Henderson G., Creevey C. …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that … they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes …

A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on … . “There was a lot of freedom to explore,” he recalled. His project involved developing an algorithm and although the … information. According to Lawrence, this summer project aligned with his computational background and …

In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the literature. These students analyze the genomes, write … (California State San Marcos) about how the Adopt-A-Genome project got started. Plus, Kalyani Maitra (California State …

To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and … yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This project has turned out to be an international collaboration, …