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… finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses spread their DNA, they can affect how …

… Dr. Frederik Schulz joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages … Group. His research is focussed on the discovery of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in … University of Vienna (Austria) PhD Microbial Ecology and Bioinformatics, University of Vienna (Austria) …

… many datasets miss a key part of microbial genomes: the mobile genetic elements, or MGEs, that can move between organisms. But now, …

… complexity At first glance, the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even lighter threads in the mix. But in the Petri dish, the thin vermicelli-like … delicately above the leaf debris are revealed to be single bacterial cells, visible to the naked eye. The unusual size …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … was fun having, you know, working with a student who was a geneticist, having them think like a chemist and thinking … in a microalgae. There were four genes there. Not like a bacterial gene cluster, but they were still clustered in the …