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Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the … So a few years ago, when they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together. The next 3 episodes …
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… research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass meadows' carbon sequestration with insights from Adam Healey and Xiao Ma. And Karen Serrano and …
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… of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The … genetic material of uncultivated microbes and link their genomes to the roles they play in the environment. One … the AAM Fellows in this cohort. Go here for the full AAM news release. Woyke is also one of the organizers for the …
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… diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s … archaea and eukaryotes, and they range in particle and genome size from small, to large and even giant. The genomes of giant viruses are on the order of 100 times the …
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A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team … the amount of DNA that can be inserted at a time. In a project detailed in ACS Synthetic Biology , Yoshikuni and …
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… second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate … to identify proteins, the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA sequences (transcriptomes) from … sequences assembled as part of its 1000 Fungal Genomes Project . To map microbial activity, Baldrian’s team …
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