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… Tara Oceans Expeditions that took place between 2009 and 2013, the Chaetoceros genus has been identified as the most … noted, are believed responsible for a fifth of the planet’s photosynthesis activities. Aside from being a key component … proposes to develop high quality reference genomes for 10 individuals from each of the following five species: …
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… Merced. What started with 2 interns in the summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 … cohort, representative mentors and alumni shared their perspectives on the program and how much it meant to be a part … and listening to the interns and learning their perspectives and views” helped her further develop management …
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… microbial factory, capable of turning abundant biomass carbohydrates — glucose and xylose — into fatty acids … genes were essential to Y. lipolytica . They identified 1,377, or 17.5 percent, of Y. lipolytica ’s genes to be required for … Institute grant CSP-503076 (IW, HA, and MB) and NSF 1706545 (IW). HA and JW were supported by the Office of …
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… Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth rates and carbon consumption of SAR11 bacteria, the most abundant bacterial group in the ocean. Later during his postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he developed a high …
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… in common: major and minor capsid proteins (MCP and mCP, respectively), ATPase involved in DNA packaging, and PRO, a … the number of known high quality virophage genome sequences 10-fold through computational approaches. By mining more than 14,000 publicly available metagenomic datasets in JGI’s …
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… genomes (MAGs), and that dominant populations varied with respect to the amount of within species recombination, … In these springs, temperatures can reach as high as 80°C (~190°F), yet microbes thrive here. The communities in this … was then used to produce a paired amplicon dataset (a.k.a. 16S rRNA gene sequencing), a shotgun metagenome, and a …
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… Over the past two years, Myco-Ed has been used in 15 individual classrooms across the country, training 316 students in fungal biology, bioinformatics, and … workforce development in mycology and microbiome science, respectively. These programs are resources designed to prepare …
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… enzymes across 90 species. They queried the genomes of 15 species from each of six kingdoms: eubacteria, archaea, … across different kingdoms, with archaea having around 15, eubacteria around 25, and eukaryotes having slightly …
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… base pairs of sequence; by 2023, that number was almost 717 trillion. Last year, the JGI surpassed three Petabases of … assembly and analysis. To put these efforts into perspective, we caught up with JGI staff, collaborators and … have evolved to enable large-scale analysis. The story of a massive metagenome assembly for a time-series experiment …
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… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint …
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