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The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in environmental processes … lifestyles found in the Antarctic lakes and offers a genetically-tractable model system that could help … first member of the Archaea isolated from Deep Lake, the coldest place on Earth known to support life, and previously …

… sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, but varied. They’re a great way to see …

… peering into the function and activity of phytoplankton genes and looking at how communities of these microalgae … Science Program (CSP) .  Through this collaboration, in 2017, they published the first genome sequence of a cold-adapted microalga: the diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus …

The Micro-Scale Applications group explores the genetic makeup of natural microbial communities using a … functional assay lets us move beyond cataloging the genes of microorganisms and start making quantitative … sequence analysis to recover the genomes of uncultivated microbes. We also apply labeling strategies that allow us to …

… include exploration of the global diversity of alternative genetic codes (Science 2014), unearthing hundreds of … and massive reconstruction of genomes from uncultivated microbes (Nature 2019). Other projects in the group include … urban microbiomes and antimicrobial resistance. Cell . 184(13):3376-3393 Almeida A, et al. (2020) A unified catalog of …

… plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses spread their DNA, they can affect how microbes cycle nutrients and adapt to climate change. …