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… developed chemiluminescent biosensors shed light on how bacteria function and colonize diverse environments. The … di-GMP (Guanine Monophosphate) is found in nearly all types of bacteria and interacts with cell signaling networks that … There are two main types of luciferase-based biosensors: 1) complementation of split luciferase (CSL) and, 2) …
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… Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of …
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… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint … Merced. What started with 2 interns in the summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 …
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… The Plant and Animal Genome XXVII Conference (PAG) takes place January 12-16, 2019, in San Diego, Calif. Representatives from … your plant genomics research. Click here to download a list of talks relevant to JGI science at PAG XXVII. On January …
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… Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist … and functionally explore viral genetic diversity. In 2021, he was among those selected by the DOE Office of Science …
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… Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut … more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … the Nature Reviews column all started with an email in 2018. Tanja Woyke , who leads the Microbial Program at the …
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… A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics complements metagenomics studies. The Science Researchers demonstrated the value of conducting large-scale single cell … In these springs, temperatures can reach as high as 80°C (~190°F), yet microbes thrive here. The communities in this …
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… Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that … in Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … the number of known high quality virophage genome sequences 10-fold through computational approaches. By mining more …
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… [Pictured from left to right are: [Above] Sara Branco, Asdrubal Burgos, Posy Busby, Hao … Hugh Cross; [Below] Zac Freedman, Martin Jonikas, Lotus Lofgren, Fumito Maruyama, Lauren Stadler, Tingting Xiang and Sheree Yao. ] ] The JGI welcomed 14 scientists selected for our 2026 Community Science …
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… High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between … The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial … method to the study of a particular fungi, researchers identified novel interactions between bacteria and the fungi. …
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… Describing the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. The … least one reference genome for every family of fungi, the 1000 Fungal Genomes initiative of the U.S. Department of … the US Department of Energy under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. The Georgia Advanced Computing Resource Center …
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… Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane … archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … that were then sequenced separately. From these samples, 111 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) were recovered, most …
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