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After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their derivatives … deciphered function and host-symbiont interplay using metagenomics. Taking on a Research Scientist position in 2007, … primary interest and passion. Dr. Woyke stepped into the Microbial Genomics Program Lead position in 2009 and assumed …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … Nayfach, the study’s first author and research scientist in Nikos Kyrpides’  Microbiome Data Science group. “What makes this …

… and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found … under the direction of Microbiome Data Science Group Lead Nikos Kyrpides at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … to boost understanding of environmental viruses. In 2016, Nikos Kyrpides at the JGI led a team that combed datasets from …

Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria (phototrophs) in …

A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) marked the visit of an … Berkeley Lab were Lauren Belisario, Greg Hura, Jan Kern, Nikos Kyrpides, Trent Northen, Robert Kostecki, Susan Tsutakawa, …

Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While … student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first sampled the area in summer 2016.  She described the microbial diversity patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal …

The PhycoCosm data portal allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. … sequence and understand. A team of researchers led by Algal Genomics Program lead Igor Grigoriev and data scientist Alan … tools created by JGI researchers, including the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system for …

Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida high school … the latest molecular techniques to learn more about the microbial communities in the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …

… cyanobacteria; they began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial mats. Along the way, they’ve encountered …

… another episode of Natural Prodcast. Right now I’m working on this the afternoon of the day I’m due to release it, which is not ideal for … to predict or just understand better the language of microbial cell-cell communication. And he told us about his …

… make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led by researchers at … strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk community sequencing (metagenomics) and single-cell genomics, the vast majority of …