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Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single Cells group. She has also served as the Functional Genomics … genetic material of uncultivated microbes and link their genomes to the roles they play in the environment. One … am thrilled to see Dr. Woyke’s important work acknowledged by this most prestigious honor,” said Axel Visel , JGI …

… sequencing or DAP-seq. The technology was developed by Ronan O’Malley , who leads the Sequencing Technologies … it can also serve as a stepping stone to studying many genomes simultaneously through multiDAP, which allows … could be useful for industrial biofuel production, and multicellular development. “DAP-Seq is the main source of …

… computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral genomes and occasionally remembering to document his code. …

The archaeal genome was detected in samples collected by Stephen Quake’s team at Yellowstone National Park’s … these samples by sorting the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced separately. From these samples, 111 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) were recovered, most of them archaea. The …

… synthesis, metabolomics and analysis will be paid for by the Department of Energy’s funding of the JGI. There is … of results. … All proposals undergo technical review by JGI staff as well as staff at the other participating … review, proposals are evaluated and placed in rank order by the reviewers. The ranked proposal list, along with a …

Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral … ability to produce their own food and generate oxygen as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to the development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed …

… 5mC is an important piece of how they regulate their genomes, but is not well understood in fungi. A team of … reference genome for every family of fungi, the 1000 Fungal Genomes initiative of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) … (epigenome).  In  Nature Ecology & Evolution , a team led by Robert Schmitz at the University of Georgia and including …

… recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of … and improve the quality of metagenome-assembled viral genomes . The Impact The microbes that play key roles in … as carbon, nitrogen and sulfur are themselves regulated by viruses in their environments. Environmental DNA …