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… show which microbes are handling specific nutrients, or what they're doing with those nutrients, and even how quickly. … catch: SIP labwork and analysis can be very demanding.  The JGI offers SIP analysis to make these experiments accessible … make this technique, SIP, more standardized -- more reproducible, more reusable, and more insightful, for the future …

… and implementing new technologies and methodologies that facilitate discovery of new secondary metabolites. Prior to joining the JGI, he studied transcriptional regulation, metabolism and … in understanding how, when and why microbes decide to produce which metabolites. … BS, Engineering, Tokyo Institute of …

… complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing … enzymes. Honey bees rely on their gut microbiota to produce these enzymes to break down polysaccharides. But … and environmental characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and …

My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable elements (TEs) contributed to in the grass …

Uri Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral … genomes and occasionally remembering to document his code. At JGI, he develops tools for viral discovery and analysis, …

… and ‘omics techniques to experimentally determine that Nanohaloarchaeota are symbionts, rather than free-living … and the biosphere), including the global carbon cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial … genome size. The obligate symbiont’s genome is often reduced compared to that of a free-living organism. First …

Gary Trubl is finishing his PhD in Microbiology at The Ohio State University, co-advised by Drs. Virginia Rich and Matthew Sullivan. He shared a few thoughts on his summer at JGI through a program that provides graduate thesis research …

A mini-episode looking at the efforts of Pankaj Trivedi, whose New Investigator proposal was recently approved through the JGI Community Science Program, to use microbiome science to …

… snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As … can affect how microbes cycle nutrients and adapt to climate change. …

Lawrence Livermore National Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots …

Pacific Subtropical Gyre, microbes tend to stay localized at different depths. But SAR324 can be found throughout the … at different depths. In order to determine the genome structure of SAR324 cells and their gene expression, the team … at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …