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… quickly accelerated understanding of giant viruses. The Science In the last thirty years, in environments all over … makeup of new giant viruses. This review highlights four of these approaches. One way of detecting giant viruses … and potentially even more abundant than bacteria. A fourth option for virus discovery is reconstructing …

… community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection Agency … populations rely heavily on groundwater as their only source of clean drinking water. Over 90% of the PCE in the … and adjusting the environmental conditions to encourage their growth. In this instance, vegetable oil was …

… liquid transfer and microfluidics, to minimize molecular biology reactions, increase throughput, and enable … Ph.D. in Marine Biology/Biochemistry, University of Delaware BA in Biology, Boston University ( magna cum laude ) … unicellular marine predators.  PNAS 116 (41), 20574-20583 Couradeau, J.S. et al. 2019. Probing the active fraction of …

… can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by … cultivar R570 has been generated and  reported in the journal  Nature . The work led by researchers at Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, the French Agricultural Research …

… approach to genome recovery from metagenomes. The Science Through the JGI’s Emerging Technologies Opportunity … and environmental scientific challenges. In Nature Microbiology , a team led by longtime JGI collaborator Jill … with >90% completeness. These results, noted JGI User Programs Deputy Susannah Tringe , suggest that extracting …

… omics methods to examine microbial chemical production. The Science Soil bacteria in the genus Streptomyces are nature's … are encoded in a dedicated set of genes called a biosynthetic gene cluster. However, most of these gene clusters … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility located at Berkeley Lab, screened …

… on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The Science As a proof of concept, researchers developed an … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … . This work was enabled in part through  JGI’s  Community Science Program (CSP) , as several approved proposals have …

… viral genome found in the deep subsurface ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets … releasing fresh organic carbon which can serve as a food source for other microbes into the environment. Summary In J. … dubbed these viruses Altivir, finding them in three of the four subsurface ecosystems known to host Altiarchaea. The …

… UEC. As a user of the JGI and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, another DOE user facility, she will … laboratory researchers. This will help the JGI shape its programs, capabilities, and resources to best meet the broad base of user community needs. …

… transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on … coelicolor . The Impact As an integrative genome science user facility, connecting genes to functions is part … genes associated with a given transcription factor is resource-intensive and unscalable. To test the efficacy of …

… held a JGI Engagement: Pro Tips for Successful Community Science Program (CSP) Applications Webinar inviting … Investigator call for proposals.  Tips: Contact us with your questions ([email protected]) Carefully read our proposal call description and ensure your idea is …