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Ray Turner Completes Last Tour of Lab Duty at JGI
… 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. Ray’s … 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. Ray’s … as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – …
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New Research Finds Flagella in the Terrestrial Roots of Marine Bacteria
… Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when … structures that enable organisms to swim around. However, genome and metagenomic sequencing conducted by the U.S. … and hot spring  Dehalococcoidia . Since these bacteria lack complete biochemical pathways to break down plant material …
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Single mutation at a highly conserved region of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase enables isobutyl acetate production directly from cellulose by Clostridium thermocellum at elevated temperatures
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Comparative genomic analysis of the gut bacterium Bifidobacterium longum reveals loci susceptible to deletion during pure culture growth
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Analysis of twelve genomes of the bacterium Kerstersia gyiorum from brown-throated sloths (Bradypus variegatus), the first from a non-human host.
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Permanent Draft Genome Sequence of Desulfurococcus amylolyticus Strain Z-533T, a Peptide and Starch Degrader Isolated from Thermal Springs in the Kamchatka Peninsula and Kunashir Island, Russia
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Finding the Fermenters
… researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use … including the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … browser that allows other researchers to study the genomes and predict the metabolic abilities of these …
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Genome sequence of the palaeopolyploid soybean
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Genomic evidence for the degradation of terrestrial organic matter by pelagic Arctic Ocean Chloroflexi bacteria
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Single-cell genomics reveals complex carbohydrate degradation patterns in poribacterial symbionts of marine sponges
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Physiological and genomic evidence of cysteine degradation and aerobic hydrogen sulfide production in freshwater bacteria
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Frederik Schulz
… Dr. Frederik Schulz joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His research is focussed on the discovery of … and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. Dr. Schulz employs multi-omics (metagenomics, …
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