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… This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the supercomputing that stitches …

… Dr. Vogel joined JGI in 2014 to establish a plant functional genomics program. … Biologist at the USDA for 12 years where he was a driving force behind the development of numerous genomic resources that … grass that is well suited to experimental manipulation in the laboratory because of its compact genome, diploid …

… Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest … the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues are studying how chronic warming is altering how microbes … interact with their environment, potentially accelerating soil carbon loss. Orange ribbons mark the heated plots and …

… Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary … and secondary metabolites information from isolate and metagenome data.   The SMC ( smc.jgi.doe.gov ) is designed … and has the capability to store and accurately display eukaryotic and viral BGC sequences. Expansion of the SMC to …

… JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in … Lab). And one of the tools that researchers can apply to study the transcription factors that control how genes are … the genomic DNA for the binding sites.” The technology expresses the transcription factor proteins from a DNA …

… and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ … Ph.D. in Marine Biology/Biochemistry, University of Delaware BA in … Couradeau, J.S. et al. 2019. Probing the active fraction of soil microbiomes using BONCAT-FACS.  Nature Comm 10(1) 1-10 …

… This year the AGU Fall Meeting, with the theme “Science is Society,” hosts sessions in … controls of nitrous oxide pulses in rewetted forest soils: An integrated -omic and isotopic approach” 12:39pm … of Arizona (lightning talk): “Effect of drought on soil microbial metabolisms driving carbon allocation and …

… fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, … being recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of … The work was led by research scientist Stephen Nayfach, the study’s first author in the Microbiome Data Science group …

… diversity hotspots Over the past few decades, advancements in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of … sequence data generated over the past three decades, their study assesses what fraction of the microbial diversity we … genes on nearly 2 million genomes, including isolates, metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) with varying quality …

… Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth … (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over to the side … – so that the seeds remain atop the plant to be collected.  Association mapping led the team to identify a gene called …

… Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) hosted a pitch event promoting fully-supported summer research collaborations through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Visiting Faculty Program (VFP) . The VFP is a summer professional … were: Simon Roux and Matthew Kellom for the JGI Metagenome Program Ellen Dow and Elisha Wood-Charlson for …