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JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 proposals have been approved through the annual … thousand Actinobacteria strains and then use computational tools to analyze biosynthetic gene clusters and then develop … The work builds upon a pilot project to sequence antimicrobial-producing strains. Established by Handelsman, Tiny …
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For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in a … above all else, determination. Rhondene Wint, an alumna of the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)-UC Merced internship … predictor of gene expression levels using machine learning tools. “This was very exciting to see how Rhondene not only …
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The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest … meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched off early from aerobic fungi, which can breathe oxygen — … natural products, O’Malley and her team plan to use genetic tools to boost production and isolate the compounds. …
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… how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across … University campuses for biotechnology education as part of a course-based undergraduate resource experience. Hear from CSU San Marcos Professor Matt Escobar and UC Davis Associate Professor …
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… more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … with an email in 2018. Tanja Woyke , who leads the Microbial Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea … three Genome Watch articles. “Given the great expertise in microbial genomics and metagenomics of the …
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For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of DNA sequence to the public data repositories over its now …
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Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … Usually, plants have the upper hand against any kind of biomass breakdown. They’ve spent millions of years … results showed that these fungi may be able to provide tools beyond biomass breakdown, extending into biochemical …
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Register for the meeting here. Here are some sessions of interest (all times in PST unless otherwise noted): … on Intensive Agricultural Lands Changes Nitrogen Cycling Microbial Communities and Reduces N2O Production Potential … A finely tuned, time-resolved analysis of viral and microbial communities in the Erpe river” 8:30am Convention …
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