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… systems. We optimize our service to the community through responsibly managing our people and resources. Our … in resource resilience and economic growth. The DOE, through its BER program, plays a central role in advancing … crops, enhance biomass conversion efficiency, and discover microbial pathways for producing biofuels, biochemicals, and …

… product molecules obviously play a huge role in ecology through cell-cell communication, chemical warfare, and … the user programs at the JGI, and I’m also the head of the microbial genome program. And I’m a scientist here. And have … year embargo to sequencing data and metabolomics data. That means that as soon as the project is completed, and by …

… Plus: SynTrack and associated tools, which track samples through the JGI’s Synthetic Biology pipeline as well as …

… Berkeley National Laboratory. Being a User Facility means that scientists from all over the world bring us big … be doing work in this field. So yeah, I thought we’d go through some of some of the background of the science and a … right. So I did a PhD in microbiology at MIT, and I studied microbial ecology. I studied Vibrio species in the ocean, so …

… Applications group explores the genetic makeup of natural microbial communities using a variety of cutting-edge … To provide additional functional insights into microbial genomes, the JGI now uses laser microdissection to selectively isolate and sequence microbial aggregates after first imaging with various …

… main tasks. And I wanted to explain a little bit what that means and how we do it here and maybe give an example of a … learning tool that tries to look at patterns of Pfams through a genome and predict where regions of secondary … of the IMG data portal , which is a larger portal for microbial genomics. IMG stands for Integrated Microbial …

… New Lineages of Life (NeLLi) Symposium …

… started during my PhD. And then I actually found out, through a connection of my supervisor, that in parallel, … this is like orders of magnitudes a difference. So that means also that the algorithm had to scale also by orders of … IMG kind of hooks into IMG’s data. IMG being Integrated Microbial Genomics at JGI, a large data set of bacterial …

… Labs and industry, including User Facilities like the JGI, through its Genesis Mission. Launched in 2025, the … chemicals and materials. It has partnered with the JGI through both our Community Science Program and through the DOE’s Technology Commercialization Fund. Through …

… outreach program to get kids interested in microbiology and microbial chemistry. All good stuff, and I hope you enjoy … is a really great question. I think that there is diffusion through the soil-- DAN: Sure. BETSY PARKINSON: --but I think … might be? BETSY PARKINSON: Sure. JACKIE: If we're looking through a genome, how-- BETSY PARKINSON: Yeah. JACKIE: …

… parameters driving virus:host dynamics in environmental microbial communities. This involves both experimental and … invaluable information on virus diversity and activity in microbial communities, however they can only provide a …

… and offered a way for researchers to study the planet’s microbial diversity, much of which remains unknown and … have afforded JGI users and the larger research community a means to access microbial lineages from a variety of environments. In 2017, the first …