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Changing expression patterns of TonB-dependent transporters suggest shifts in polysaccharide consumption over the course of a spring phytoplankton bloom
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Expression of Aspergillus niger CAZymes is determined by compositional changes in wheat straw generated by hydrothermal or ionic liquid pretreatments
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Community‐Level Metabolic Shifts Following Land Use Change in the Amazon Rainforest Identified by a Supervised Machine Leaning Approach
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For the Tiniest Archaea, A Genomic Switch of Friend or Foe
… Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine … how these hosts and hitchhikers coexist is key for understanding their impact on wider ecosystems, but … provides new views of these relationships.  Recently , researchers used population genomics to find that while …
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An Inside Look at How Plants and Mycorrhizal Fungi Cooperate
… A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of … DOE’s Office of Science is the largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and …
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Kjiersten Fagnan
… Kjiersten Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing consultant, after completing a petascale … postdoctoral fellowship at NERSC and LBNL’s Computational Research Division. As a postdoc, her research focused on … Kjiersten Fagnan is the JGI's Chief Informatics Officer. Click to learn …
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Giant Bacteria Found in Guadeloupe Mangroves Challenge Traditional Concepts
… Though visible to the naked eye, microscopy reveals unexpected complexity At first … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Laboratory for Research in Complex Systems (LRC) in Menlo Park, Calif. … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …
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…  Learn about meetings the JGI is hosting:   … New Lineages of Life (NeLLi) Symposium … Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA)  … The JGI is represented at conferences year round; find out where our researchers will be presenting next. Go here to learn about …
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Glacier ice archives nearly 15,000-year-old microbes and phages
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A Viral Ecogenomics Framework To Uncover the Secrets of Nature’s “Microbe Whisperers”
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Frederik Schulz
… Schulz joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His research is focussed on the discovery of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. Dr. … B.Sc. Biochemistry, University of Applied Sciences Mannheim (Germany) M.Sc. Molecular …
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