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… In our warming world, we’ll need corn, sorghum and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: with more heat, less water and less fertilizer. Grasses …

… a member of JGI’s Sample Management Group, attended a conference in Florida to discuss a JGI pilot project … Jonathan’s email request reached  Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh , the Metagenome Program Head at the  U.S. Department of Energy … do an environmental microbial community (metagenomic) soil study in an untouched region of the Everglades, the …

… Microbes drive critical ecosystem functions and affect global nutrient cycling, however they do so under strong constraints exerted by … of molecular mechanisms involved in virus:host interaction and host cell take-over by viruses, and attempts to … and virus genomes have been assembled and reported from metagenomes, our understanding of the impacts of these …

… Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a podcast about the science and scientists of secondary metabolism.  DAN: Hey there. This is Dan again, and … there, but we don’t have millions of molecules. In an ideal world, knowing that something can be produced, you know, you …

…   The JGI’s Secondary Metabolites Program focuses on the exploration of … growth, provide critical advantages to the organisms producing them, and are often involved in defense, nutrient acquisition and communication. Studying how these compounds are biosynthesized and their …

… After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their derivatives … Scientist appointment at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences since 2012 and an Adjunct Professor at the … Tanja Woyke is the Microbial Science Program Head as well as our Deputy of User Programs. …

…   The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is a national user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … Berkeley, California.  Our location at the IGB fosters team science and collaboration with partner organizations such as … to large-scale datasets and analysis tools for genomes, metagenomes, and metabolomics through its data portals. …

… ecology and metagenomics. Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from … in human microbiome research at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine … Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She stepped into the Metagenome Program Lead position in 2017. She also leads the …

… A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on presentations to peatlands Travis Lawrence sits in … peat moss and their subsurface bogs hold over 30% of the world’s carbon. “This makes it one of the most efficient … slides and anticipating the inevitable questions about the study’s methods and analysis, Lawrence is spending time on …

… make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led by researchers at … in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk community sequencing (metagenomics) and … allow researchers to focus on specific microbes within metagenome samples and associate their sequences with their …

… Analysis of haloarchaeal metagenomes broadens understanding of Antarctic … The Science Haloarchaea flourish in hypersaline environments, and researchers are interested in learning how … learned to adapt from marine to hypersaline conditions by studying the microbial communities in Antarctic lakes, some …

… Kerrie Barry or Vivian Ng Prokaryotic projects: Tijana Glavina del Rio , Danielle Graham , or Miranda Harmon-Smith DNA Synthesis projects: Miranda Harmon-Smith Metabolomics projects: Christa Pennacchio   … You can visit the Products & Offerings section of our website for more details, including a downloadable …