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… are encoded in a dedicated set of genes called a biosynthetic gene cluster. However, most of these gene clusters … effect is coordinated upregulation of energy production, biosynthetic precursor supply, enzyme activation machinery, and the biosynthetic gene clusters themselves. The team also identified …
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… products and their derivatives during her Ph.D. in Microbiology at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (Germany), … postdoctoral research at the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004. The main object of her research was the symbiont … metagenomics. Taking on a Research Scientist position in 2007, she switched gears from metagenomics to single-cell …
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… Dr. Blow joined the JGI in 2009, and currently heads the Genome Analysis group. In this … Sanger Institute and Cambridge University University in 2005, where he studied RNA editing and cancer genetics. Dr. … Bowers et al. 2024. scMicrobe PTA: Near Complete Genomes from Single …
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… summer project in the JGI-UC Merced Internship Program. In 2023, Shayna Bennett, a UC Merced graduate student in Carolin … by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under grant DEB-1442348. The work (proposal: https://doi.org/10.46936/10.25585/60000936 ) conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy …
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… and longtime JGI collaborator Sabeeha Merchant’s group. In 2011, they inventoried a swath of blueprints to find parts … Synechocystis . Working with Synechocystis also opened up options for studying modified versions of this protein domain. In an array of …
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… metagenome-assembled viral genomes ( Nature Biotechnology , 2021), geNomad , a tool for identifying mobile genetic elements ( Nature Biotechnology , 2024), and iPHoP , an integrated machine learning framework …
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… communities, with results published in the November 2022 issue of Microbiome . High-throughput stable isotope … under the auspices of the U.S. DOE under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy …
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… Dr. Frederik Schulz joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His … of Applied Sciences Mannheim (Germany) M.Sc. Molecular Microbiology, University of Vienna (Austria) PhD Microbial … Nature Biotechnology . Schulz et al. 2022. Giant virus biology and diversity in the era of genome-resolved …
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… Kjiersten Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing consultant, after … into scalable methods for scientific data analysis. In 2014 Dr. Fagnan became the JGI-NERSC Engagement Lead with a … for the overall design and implementation of computational biology and bioinformatics approaches in support of meeting …
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… activity in microbiomes. The initial analysis used over 12,000 metagenomes from diverse environments and grouped … data (the 136 tetranucleotide frequencies for each of the 12,063 metagenomes) and reduce it into two axes (LDA … US Department of Energy operated under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This research used resources of the National …
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… 19. Following the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, he developed sequencing, assembly, and improvement … BA in Biology, North Central College, Naperville, IL BS in … Healey, A.L., Garsmeur, O., Lovell, J.T. et al. 2024.The complex polyploid genome architecture of sugarcane. …
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… type of food that was in the contaminated aquifer in 2007 to achieve this goal. In less than four years, parts of … of the groundwater were nearly cleared of contamination. By 2020, the water was at contamination levels that are below the … The work (proposal: 10.46936/10.25585/60000717 ) conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy …
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