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… the New Lineages of Life Group. His research is focussed on the discovery of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. Dr. Schulz employs multi-omics … and phylogenomics) and machine learning to find novel functions that may impact microbiome structure and biogeochemical …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … from individual environmental cells. The proof of principle study built off earlier approaches and offered a way for researchers to study the planet’s microbial diversity, much of which …

… By characterizing the structure and function of a methylthio-alkane reductase system, researchers … gaseous organic sulfur compounds in the atmosphere.  Beyond bacteria, this enzymatic machinery has potential as an … innovation ecosystem. “At JGI, we’ve done the synthesis, metagenome mining, all the way from sequencing to functional …

… these teams provide analysis support and R&D for production and user science. He received his Ph.D. from the Wellcome … Blow carried out postdoctoral work at LBNL, where he worked on computational and experimental approaches to study genome regulation in human and other vertebrate …

… researchers have identified a virus protein tied to carbon cycling.  The Science Through a collaborative effort, … The Impact The specific protein described in  a recent study in  Nature Communications , a chitosanase, is tied to … within soil. So, the chitosanase protein identified in the study is essentially chewing food to help  microorganisms …

… regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … confirmation bias, because it enables scientists to study how methanogenesis takes place in the context of the … They could just be switched off.” Yet, after extensive study, Hatzenpicher and his team were able to definitively …

… recognize that crop varieties grow best in certain regions. Most plant species have adapted to their local … biologist at HudsonAlpha and first author of the study. “For that, it’s necessary to have the plant’s genome … a longtime JGI collaborator and a senior author on this study. The use of switchgrass as a feedstock for …