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… microbial life and environment, and using metagenomics to study these complex natural systems. Microbial communities … places that are considered to be inhospitable to humans are of particular interest. Matt also supports various CSP and …

… Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His research is focussed on the discovery of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. Dr. … B.Sc. Biochemistry, University of Applied Sciences Mannheim (Germany) M.Sc. Molecular …

… JGI User Executive Committee (UEC) : Roland Hatzenpichler of Montana State University, Teresa Pawlowska of Cornell … data sharing policies fail to represent the needs of large parts of the user community. “Large sections of the community are either unaware that …

… his doctoral research in synthetic biology and microfluidics at the University of California, San Diego. As the … handling and bioinformatics pipelines to transition bench-scale methods into production workflows. He developed and scaled the multiDAP-seq assay, a method that enables …

… (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a … of metagenome-assembled viral genomes . The Impact The microbes that play key roles in cycling nutrients such as … The work was led by research scientist Stephen Nayfach, the study’s first author in the Microbiome Data Science group …

… a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But … and replicating with their host indefinitely. Now, in studying a microbial mat from Cone Pool in Mono County, … on culturing virus and host pairs in the laboratory to study their interactions. This work,  recently published in  …

… he worked on computational and experimental approaches to study genome regulation in human and other vertebrate … Nottingham University, UK PhD in Genomics, University of Cambridge, UK Postdoctoral training Wellcome Trust Sanger … Price et al 2018. Mutant phenotypes for thousands of bacterial genes of unknown function. Nature 557:503-509. …

… Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … on global carbon cycling and climate is estimated to be larger than any other single plant genus. Peatlands … cycling is a carbon flux regulator since sulfate-reducing microbes prevent methane production by routing the carbon …

… To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers … around the world compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. This episode, we …