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… Program and the development of the comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes and metagenomes (IMG). He became the … led the development of the genome analysis and Bioinformatics core at Integrated Genomics Inc. in Chicago, IL. … Thousands of Small, Novel Genes. Cell. 178(5):1245-1259. Publications on Pubmed | Google Scholar …

… Congratulations to Jennifer Doudna of the University of California (UC), Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National … a Nobel Prize in Chemistry to seven. Doudna was recognized for her work on CRISPR-Cas9, technology described by the … nature was using it to do something important.” Related Publications:  A scoutRNA Is Required for Some Type V …

… his Ph.D in 1998 from the Department of Genetics at Stanford University where he uncovered the genetic cause of a rare form of human epilepsy and subsequently generated one of the first mouse models for this common neurological disorder. In 1999, he was named …

… methane a year, which is over half the total global methane production. They are thought to use billions of tons of the … cycle. All methanogenic archaea use one of three pathways for methanogenesis: hydrogen-dependent and CO2-reducing, or … acetoclastic. All three pathways require the gene cluster for methane production known as Mcr. Until recently, the Mcr …

… of biomass which could then be converted into sustainable biofuels . For its importance to the DOE mission, switchgrass is among … working on identifying switchgrass genes related to biomass production, drought tolerance, and other traits that make it …

… sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was … paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach known as DNA stable … nature. In the last few years, mapping the planet’s viral diversity has advanced drastically, aided by genome assembly …

… shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with the prospect of meta-analyses boosted … chemical, where ordinary Carbon-12 atoms are swapped for the heavier, non-radioactive isotope Carbon-13, … illuminating the inner workings of an environment. For example, SIP experiments can show how soil microbes …

… help regulate the global carbon cycle — fixing, transforming, and respiring carbon. Understanding the metabolisms that SAR324 and other microbes use could inform scientists’ understanding of carbon fluxes in the … related 16S rRNA genes, but these genes mask the striking diversity of their genomic capabilities. According to Boeuf, …