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… behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses …

… to an exceptional caliber of scientists.” For her project, “Microbial Community Structure and Methane Production in … Susannah Tringe, JGI’s User Programs deputy and head of the Microbial Systems group. Tringe’s research group focuses on the roles of microbial communities in wetland carbon cycling and the …

Science group led by Nikos Kyrpides , mining the Integrated Microbial Genomics & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system’s immense … Banfield is a pioneer in metagenomic studies, recovering microbial genomes from biofilm samples at the Richmond Mine … Mountain, CA. Banfield’s observations of the CRISPRs in her microbial sequences piqued Doudna’s interest. As Doudna …

… to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots …

… powerful at finding ways to accelerate bio-design and identifying the best sets of enzymes that enable synthesis …

… recent studies now suggest the gene cluster predates this microbial group. Recently published in the Proceedings of … Following that work, they partnered once more with JGI Microbial Program head Tanja Woyke and her Single Cells team member Frederik Schulz to screen the microbial communities collected. The team noticed some of …

Tringe , JGI’s User Programs deputy and head of the Microbial Systems group through the  DOE Office of Science … Student Research (SCGSR) program . Her research project, “Microbial Community Structure and Methane Production in …

Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority … American Academy of Microbiology (AAM). She has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single …

… green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the …

… harvest light, transport molecules and regulate reactions. Identifying these proteins and then figuring out what they …

… characteristics. When they tested the screen method on a microbial community from geothermal hot springs, they … microbes. The new technique is another tool for microbial ecologists to learn more about the diversity of microbial enzymes, which could have a plethora of potential …