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… human chromosomes 5, 16, and 19. Following the completion of the human genome project in 2003, he developed sequencing, assembly, and improvement strategies for de novo … Award … Plant Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters … looking at how communities of these microalgae interact, researchers have found that polar algae rely on dissolved zinc … and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable …

… researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use … of five previously uncharacterized prokaryotes, including two bacteria isolated by their lab. KBase was used to … phenotype and genotype of fermentative prokaryotes on IMG … Publication … Datasets … Datasets … Datasets …

The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in … biosphere), including the global carbon cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial … graduate student, Joshua Hamm, successfully cultured two strains of Nanohaloarchaeota and showed they required …

… three new members earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of … CSP and the JGI-EMSL FICUS programs and brings expertise in metagenomics and novel applications for long-read DNA sequencing. As a UEC member, Wilbanks will advocate for …

… key role is to design, benchmark, and apply bioinformatics software to enable analysis and interpretation of genomic and metagenomic data for JGI’s user community. She also provides …