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Nitrosococcus watsonii sp. nov., a new species of marine obligate ammonia‐oxidizing bacteria that is not omnipresent in the world's oceans: calls to validate the names ‘Nitrosococcus halophilus’ and ‘Nitrosomonas mobilis’
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Hiroshi Otani
Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in … Characterization of p-hydroxycinnamate catabolism in a soil Actinobacterium. J. Bacteriol. 196, 4293-4303. Otani, … Mol. Microbiol. 87, 1223-1236. PubMed … Education … Publications …
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Novel heavy metal resistance gene clusters are present in the genome of Cupriavidus neocaledonicus STM 6070, a new species of Mimosa pudica microsymbiont isolated from heavy-metal-rich mining site soil
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Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh
… on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to identify and … Scholar … LBNL Director’s Award for Exceptional Early Scientific Career Achievement, 2020 NIH Early Career … Futures … Metagenome Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Service …
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Better Genome Editing for Bioenergy
… goal of producing sustainable fuels from alternative sources. Moreover, the team says the approach they used to … CRISPR-Cas9 relies on RNA with a short guiding sequence (20 bp) that directs the endonuclease where to cut, but these … The team was thus able to measure sgRNA effectiveness from its lethality and choose only the most reliable sgRNAs for …
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Complete genome sequence of the thermophilic, hydrogen-oxidizing Bacillus tusciae type strain (T2T) and reclassification in the new genus, Kyrpidia gen. nov. as Kyrpidia tusciae comb. nov. and emendation of the family Alicyclobacillaceae da Costa and
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A Powerful Technique to Study Microbes, Now Easier
… help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots have made these …
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Matt Blow
Dr. Blow joined the JGI in 2009, and currently heads the User Support Analysis group. … Wellcome Trust Prize studentship Editorial board member for Scientific Reports … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Service …
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Cracking the Secrets of the Diatom’s Shell
… are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, we peek into how scientists Aindrila Mukhopadhyay and …
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Cultivating Symbiotic Antarctic Microbes
… in environmental processes (related to interactions of soil-sediment environments, water and air-atmosphere with … to that of a free-living organism. First discovered in 2011, Nanohaloarchaea are part of the DPANN (Diapherotrites, … larger genome sizes and their cells were not observed to associate with host cells. In the  Proceedings of the National …
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A Community Resource for Secondary Metabolite Researchers
… publicly available bacterial and archaeal genome and contig sources.  The Impact Secondary metabolites are useful in a … gene clusters and secondary metabolites information from isolate and metagenome data.   The SMC ( smc.jgi.doe.gov ) is … Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]. … SMC is the most comprehensive BGC database …
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Gene Expression: From On-Off Switch to Dial
… in an organism. The experiment was led by Hal Alper, professor and associate chair at the University of Texas, Austin, … … This work was funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Award No. FA9550-14-1-0089, the … User Facility, is supported under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. …
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