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My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable elements (TEs) contributed to in the grass model species Brachypodium …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … the cells of other organisms. As they infect microbes like bacteria, algae and protists, all kinds of viruses impact … target specific microbes or change the behavior of this bacteria — most likely there is a virus that is already …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … habitats. The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic information for every … with various origins, ranging from fungi, plants to bacteria. Back in 2011 when these genome and transcriptome …

… biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those molecules not essential for growth … pest control. Secondary metabolites are highly regulated in bacteria, making it difficult to identify which pathway … could potentially allow for introducing CRISPR into other bacteria, thereby enhancing the scientific community’s …

… from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: … smoothly. As reported August 26, 2021, in Nature Communications , researchers led by Hal Alper at The University of … senior authors. “But this has been done most commonly in bacterial-based systems, and so one of the things that I …

After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their derivatives … Analytics 2020 van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics 2020 Elected fellowship in the … (MISAG) and a metagenome- assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea. Nature Biotechnology 35, 725-731. …