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… Dr. Eloe-Fadrosh joined the JGI in 2014 to pursue her research interests in microbial ecology and … datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. Prior to joining the JGI, she was a Bioinformatics Program Fellow …
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… 25th anniversary . Over the next few months, we’ll be revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … organizations. From field research and wet lab experiments, to computational modeling and virtual projects, hear intern …
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… in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, particularly actinomycetes. His research … facilitate discovery of new secondary metabolites. Prior to joining the JGI, he studied transcriptional regulation, … in understanding how, when and why microbes decide to produce which metabolites. …
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… Three stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on communities …
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… served as the Systems Engineering Group lead. The group is responsible for developing and supporting applications … review, project and work order creation and management, automated sequence quality control and automation of microbial/metagenomic assemblies, portals that …
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… Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and … for agricultural products. Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench is an African grass that adroitly handles droughts, floods … to produce good yields under water limiting conditions. Epigenetic Control of Drought Response in Sorghum (EPICON) is a …
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… technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a … factors that initiate transcription in bacteria. Using this technology, which combines an in vitro transcription … complex as well as a sigma factor. While all bacteria encode at least one principal sigma factor responsible for …
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… between the JGI and Molecular Foundry for genome-encoded biomaterial discovery, design, and engineering. She … with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard on using comparative genomics to predict gene function in bacteria and leveraging molecular biology and reverse genetics to test those hypotheses. From 2011 – 2015, she …
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… Dr. Yasuo Yoshikuni has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the power of DNA synthesis, strain engineering, … and renewable chemicals, developing genome engineering tools for non-model organisms, modulating microbe-microbe …
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… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the International Cocoa … cocoa bean production in 2017-2018 was 4.6 million metric tons . The global chocolate brands couldn’t exist without … User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE …
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… Innovative technology from this biomanufacturing collaboration is available for … In Nature Communications , researchers describe a strategy to recover high value products from human waste. They genetically modified yeast to efficiently convert elements … This work was supported by laboratory-directed research and development (LDRD). The work …
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… design and assembly, strain engineering and bioinformatic tool development/data analysis for synthetic biology and functional genomics. Prior to joining the JGI, he was a group lead at Brookhaven … of Cambridge., Microbial molecular biology Post-doctoral positions – University of Florida; University of …
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