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Petra is an affiliate researcher who cultivates marine algae infected by giant viruses from subtropical, oligotrophic … ocean gyres. She uses genomic and transcriptomic sequencing along with laboratory manipulations to understand …

Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial …

Kelly Wrighton and her group at Colorado State University in Fort Collins have a massive undertaking: sequencing the world’s river microbiomes. And they’re using …

Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had …

… did not. This is normally an arduous wet lab process. Typically, after incubating microbial communities with labeled … and the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley … at a larger scale through downstream DNA purification and sequencing steps. Ultimately, researchers found their …

To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and … yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This project has turned out to be an international collaboration, …