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… in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar … carries out its helpful metabolism: who’s responsible for what biochemical processes? Now, an international team … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  …

… race was being waged. In this JGI@25 video, Susan Lucas, former JGI Production Department Head and current ESnet … the people and resources from these three national labs to form the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 1997. Over the next … years, and in collaboration with researchers at the Stanford Human Genome Center, JGI staff worked around the clock …

… manage the growth, yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to … thrives in the Arctic, and how different types of microbes form communities. As temperatures fluctuate, salt levels … as well as contributing to nutrient cycling in these ecosystems. Researchers studied P. psychrophila’ s stress …

… of members. Each of the researchers had particular reasons for wanting to serve on the UEC. Hatzenpichler, who studies … Pawlowska, who studies fungal-bacterial symbiotic systems, noted that she would like to help advance JGI efforts aimed at “understanding complex communities and …

For the first time, a team has comprehensively described … the predator-prey dynamics in these mats helps constrain models that estimate biogeochemical fluxes. Summary Previous … relied on methods that eschew culturing, painting a more systematic picture through single-cell and metagenomic …

… dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using … and through a Challenge Grant from the California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California Santa … Teacher-Scholar Awards Program, and the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) Challenge Grant Program, supported …

… the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most … shotgun metagenomic sequencing and single-cell sequencing. For years, extracting single cells and then amplifying their DNA for genome sequencing was no easy task. The traditional way …

… a 2012 Community Science Program proposal. Joseph Spatafora of Oregon State University led the effort to sequence 1000 fungal genomes to create two reference genomes for all fungi families — essentially, the foundation for an …

Mo Kaze, UC Merced JGI Mentor : Susannah Tringe, Microbial Systems Group “Everyone here is very kind and really open to … have done the groundbreaking work you’ve been reading about for years! And you can ask them about it! And they’re super … and understandings in the field of genomics. This has reinforced my goal to pursue a career in STEM. I have not had …

… and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature … The Impact In order to gain more insights into Earth’s ecosystems, researchers must examine the interactions that …

Clarivate Analytics, formerly the IP & Science arm of Thomson Reuters, has … section as “those that rank in the top 1% by citations for papers published and cited between 2008-2018.” Less than … and Molecular Biology & Genetics categories Microbial Systems research group lead and User Programs Deputy …

… of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process for AAM Fellows is based on their records of scientific … leaders in the field of microbiology and are relied upon for authoritative advice and insight on critical issues in … Genomics Department Head for the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division of the Lab’s Biosciences Area since …