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Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start orientation as a first-year graduate … class, we met the graduate students and they said they’d like to come to JGI and learn cutting-edge technologies, but … areas, areas the JGI is interested in. JGI would like to tap into that talent pool. At the same time, this …

… of members. Each of the researchers had particular reasons for wanting to serve on the UEC. Hatzenpichler, who studies … fungal-bacterial symbiotic systems, noted that she would like to help advance JGI efforts aimed at “understanding … to the DOI mission.” Additionally, she noted, “I would also like to offer my insights in promoting diversity, equity and …

… also holds a joint appointment with the University of California, Berkeley. Nowadays, Session is an Assistant … help crop breeders and researchers predict how crops and model organisms may evolve.  Determining the genetic codes … Phytozome . “The broad applicability of the method is likely the most important, but also the ability to …

… of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He contributed to the Human Genome Project … Moscow, Russia PhD in Molecular Biology, Research Institute for Genetics and Selection of Industrial Organisms, Moscow, … al. Formation of mushrooms and lignocellulose degradation encoded in the genome sequence of  Schizophyllum commune . …

… dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has looked for DGRs in a broad range of publicly available datasets. … to recognize individual pathogens and pull them out, like fish on a fishing line, without harming the rest of the …

… on what the next five years of innovation could look like. In one article, Micro-Scale Applications head Rex … sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was … paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach known as DNA stable …

… the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most … shotgun metagenomic sequencing and single-cell sequencing. For years, extracting single cells and then amplifying their … the DNA sequences came from one cell, including components like plasmids, the picture is far from complete.  In 2021 , …

… occupy more space on Earth than any other ecosystem. Therefore, understanding the microbial activity that dominates … years ago and has been well-studied by many researchers for nearly five decades. In these frigid systems, where organisms higher up in the food web like fish do not exist, nutrient cycling takes place only on …