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… of action of antifungal natural products and their derivatives during her Ph.D. in Microbiology at the Eberhard … symbiont community of a gutless oligochaete for which she deciphered function and host-symbiont interplay using metagenomics. Taking on a Research Scientist position …

… JGI researchers Lee Call,  Stephen Nayfach and  Nikos Kyrpides , was  recently published in the journal  Annual Review … best ways to study such viruses is by sequencing the bulk DNA or RNA contained in a sample that has been collected … and discuss some of the current challenges faced by those using metagenomics to try to understand the far-reaching …

… been published. Analysis of the genome sequence also provides insights into how the multiple chromosomes of Miscanthus … due to its prodigious capability for growth. While many desirable features of biofuel grasses can be studied from simpler (and smaller) models, Miscanthus has a large and complex genome whose …

… Dr. Kyrpides joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004 to lead the Genome Biology Program and the development of the comparative analysis platforms for … Prior to joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute, Dr. Kyrpides led the development of the genome analysis and …

… transforms oil-producing alga into a powerful platform for developing ​​bio-based industrial products.    The Science … found it is missing 33 genes thought essential for photosynthesis, yet still thrives. The Impact This discovery … oil production. The organism uses specific chemical tags on DNA  to control which genes are active. Researchers also …

… scale to produce biofuels . Since one of the challenges of developing alternative fuels from plants is the high cost … that are still vital to facilitate the assembly of small DNA fragments into larger and coherent pieces called contigs … days and that are widely used by many, many scientists.”  Using samples of rumen-digested switchgrass, researchers …

… The Science In a proof-of-concept study, researchers demonstrated that a new genetic mapping strategy called … a way to map associations between genotype and phenotype using a strategy called reciprocal hemizygosity analysis via … then used a series of random insertions of a foreign DNA sequence to generate a huge pool of mutants, each …

… both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth and DNA are close to our … for Audio   ALISON:  Hey! I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI.  Two … leaf through which carbon dioxide enters the leaf for photosynthesis.  ALISON:  Photosynthesis is what allows plants to …