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… to terrestrial life paves the way for innovations in sustainable agriculture and clean energy. These evolutionary … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … US National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award (DBI-1652164, 1933521), the Nebraska Tobacco Settlement Biomedical …
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… have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with … HT-SIP is a capability available to request through the JGI proposal calls . … Work at Lawrence Livermore National … under the auspices of the U.S. DOE under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. The work conducted by the U.S. Department of …
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… large-scale single cell genomics by collecting nearly 500 single cells from a single low diversity hot spring … genomics can add significant value to the other commonly used culture-independent sequencing approaches including … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …
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… over fifty plant and animal genomes. He currently leads the JGI’s Computational Genomics group, and is past lead of the … and evolutionary biology. Dr. Rokhsar’s research is focused on understanding the origin, evolution, and diversity … developmental biology. In addition to this evolutionary focus, his work on plant genomics is targeted towards the …
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… first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … User Facility, is supported under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. JRS is supported by the NASA Astrobiology …
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… To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a … to generate a matrix of data points. Applied to 216,015 high-quality virus sequences in the IMG/VR database, the …
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… microorganisms for biofuel production and other sustainable applications. Summary Hot springs are … A recent study published in The ISME Journal focused on a class within Chloroflexota called … … The work (proposal: https://doi.org/10.46936/10.25585/60000691 , and …
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… vents are ocean-floor openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. These vents are too … the ocean through vents at temperatures that can exceed 750 degrees Fahrenheit. The minerals in these fluids include … the communities studied. The datasets are available on the JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) …
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… to stress. The Impact Despite constituting less than 5% of land on Earth, peatlands store approximately one-third … boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding how sphagnum, a primary … their role as carbon sources. Summary Sphagnum, a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times …
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… her Ph.D. in Computer Science. Her research has been focused on semantic and object-oriented data modeling, and … currently the Microbiome Computational Resource Lead at the JGI, responsible for the data management infrastructure of … Development Systems at Gene Logic, Inc. from 1997 to 2005, responsible for the development of key components of Gene …
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… develop, deploy, and maintain software that support the JGI’s Synthetic Biology Program . Representative software … and associated tools, which track samples through the JGI’s Synthetic Biology pipeline as well as provide process …
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