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… and Sheree Yao. ] ] The JGI welcomed 14 scientists selected for our 2026 Community Science Program Large Scale call. … through genomic discovery across diverse organisms and ecosystems. Scientists are engineering next-generation … projects at their word, the research consortium aims to generate over a terabase of sequence. “We are thrilled to …
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… and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever … of Technology he developed a high throughput approach for isolating individual bacterial cells and amplifying … genomics pipeline that provides JGI users access to the genomes of uncultured microbes. His group also handles the …
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… Tübingen (Germany), Dr. Woyke pursued her postdoctoral research at the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004. The main … was the symbiont community of a gutless oligochaete for which she deciphered function and host-symbiont … an Adjunct Scientist appointment at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences since 2012 and an Adjunct Professor at …
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… eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers. That’s why twice each year we look for novel research projects — aligned with DOE missions and …
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… DOE’s Office of Science is the largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and … address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit energy.gov/science/office-science . …
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… has a long-term partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology for our Plant Program, and is further leveraging the … DOE computational facilities (e.g., the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and data …
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… that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team … addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for c hassis (or strain)-independent r ecombinase- a … BGCs make diverse molecules of value to both human and ecosystem health. But bacteria often fail to express their …
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… involved? How long does it take to do all the analyses? A: For the JGI New Investigator and Functional Genomics … the metabolomics and transcriptomic data? A: We use MAGI. Reference: Erbiligin et al. MAGI: A Method for Metabolite … transcriptome analysis and 8 replicates for metabolomics. Why is this? A: We did a pilot experiment with the JGI to …
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… Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant … in capsid maturation. Recently reported in Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint … & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which includes IMG/VR (for Virus)—for the virophage marker gene MCP, they were able …
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… The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is a boxful of lures. Designed with feathers … tested the approach on bacterial laboratory models to set a reference for its performance, and then applied it to … To validate the predicted cellulases from their captured genomes, the team then used DNA synthesis and cloning, …
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… back story — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often … to the way many organisms function, they have a sense of why nitrogen metabolisms can be so varied. As evolution has … of these enzymes across 90 species. They queried the genomes of 15 species from each of six kingdoms: eubacteria, …
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