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… decided to do my PhD, I thought, right, I’m going to learn microbiology. So I went to– this was in 2008 by then. And … It’s difficult to do that experiment. There’s a debate in microbiology, you can’t really tell once you’ve isolated … is a whole bunch of information that maybe never makes its publication. And these are little tips, you know, how to …

… natural products and their derivatives during her Ph.D. in Microbiology at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen … she deciphered function and host-symbiont interplay using metagenomics. Taking on a Research Scientist position in 2007, she switched gears from metagenomics to single-cell genomics, which is now her …

… a mixture of, for example, metatranscriptome sequencing, metagenomics, single cell genomics. We even do the flow … do the bioinformatics and to synthesize these results into publication? So there’s this really important because we … (LAUGHS) Yeah. We do expect that or hope that a publication comes out of the work that’s done at the JGI. …

… was the catalyst of that. We also talk about his move to microbiology, about drug discovery and why it’s so hard to … development. So, we started asking questions about microbiology of the ocean. And it was amazing what was not … drug discovery. And a guy like me, with no background in microbiology, said, I think we should do this. They said, …

… and organic carbon concentration. From Field Studies to Publication Together as a class, the students learned about … a deeper understanding of both the research process and metagenomics while legitimately contributing to the body of …

… Jo, she’s really a champion of many different things in microbiology and biology in general. And her efforts first … classrooms to (A) become engaged with STEM and learn about microbiology but also bring their own perspective to this … the system. [ Go here to learn more about Cameron Currie’s metagenomics research, enabled in part by JGI’s Community …

… changes. Summary Researchers have been utilizing metagenomics as a way to study a collection of … energy and environmental scientific challenges. In Nature Microbiology , a team led by longtime JGI collaborator Jill …

… influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last … researchers from 67 countries. Those from the JGI whose publications rank in the top 1% by citations for field and … Rokhsar (Cross-field) Simon Roux (Biology and Biochemistry, Microbiology) Jeremy Schmutz (Cross-field) Susannah Tringe …