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… Dan Udwary: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural Prodcast, a … who was the postdoc leading that project. So they were studying this phenomenon called “disease suppression”, where … a nice example of going from a whole community with many microbes, hundreds of gene clusters, and then being able to …

… “Adopt a Genome” is an informal program for faculty to “claim” the JGI’s … work with undergraduates in the analysis and publication of the claimed genome sequences. This opportunity, provided … by the Joint Genome Institute, builds upon thousands of microbial genomes that have been sequenced by the JGI …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … come from livestock — specifically, from the methane-making microbes within their rumen. There is another climate-minded reason for studying rumen: Livestock live off plant matter, and their …

… Research in the Woyke laboratory focuses on the utility of single-cell methods to access genetic material of uncultivated taxa of interest. One such effort is … gap is also reflected in the strongly biased representation of sequenced genomes in the public domain, the bulk of which …

… Microbes drive critical ecosystem functions and affect global nutrient cycling, however they do so under strong constraints exerted by … group aims at improving our collective understanding of ecological and evolutionary parameters driving virus:host … While an ever-increasing number of phage and virus genomes have been assembled and reported …

… cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple … The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in environmental processes … (project 4031). The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Hey, Alison Takemura: Hey, Dan. Dan Udwary: Today we’re going to talk to Kate Duncan. And Kate is– I should ask, you … here today, and we wanted to talk to her about a whole list of things. So we have a Scripps background shared together, … what’s important in terms of the chemistry produced by microbes. And by what’s important, I mean, like, where …

… strengthens -omics technologies at the JGI by identifying the actual molecules present in an environment that … functional genome annotation, improves understanding of the role small molecules play in diverse biological … variety of experimental samples, including organisms (e.g. microbes, fungi, plant), media in which they grow, as well …

… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … in Fort Collins. He’s part of a JGI-supported project studying the world’s rivers and their microbial communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River and how microbes might be influencing its health.  He sat down with …