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Petra is an affiliate researcher who cultivates marine algae infected by giant viruses from subtropical, oligotrophic … ocean gyres. She uses genomic and transcriptomic sequencing along with laboratory manipulations to understand …

Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. … of new secondary metabolites. Prior to joining the JGI, he studied transcriptional regulation, metabolism and … University of Tokyo … Kunakom S, Otani H, Udwary DW, Doering DT, Mouncey NJ. Cytochromes P450 involved in …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are … are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses … at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley …

Kelly Wrighton and her group at Colorado State University in Fort Collins have a massive undertaking: sequencing the world’s river microbiomes. And they’re using …

Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants … systems, expanding the technologies available for other JGI users outside the realm of bioenergy optimization. … and included researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science …

… fantastic diversity of cell types and associated organisms, including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental … 10.1371/journal.pbio.2002860 … Postdocs: Margot Bezrutczyk (JGI Postdoc) Lamprinos Frantzeskakis (JGI Postdoc) Interns: Katsuma Yonehara (Tokyo University) …

Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had …