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Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea … provided by the other study co-authors, and reconstructed from these 10 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) … sediments and based on metabolic reconstructions, the team has two main hypotheses: the novel korarchaeon could …
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… with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing consultant, after completing a petascale postdoctoral fellowship at NERSC and LBNL’s Computational Research Division.. As a postdoc, her research focused … 2018, Dr. Fagnan was part of the Gordon Bell prize winning team at the Supercomputing conference, SC’18, led by …
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Institute, a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and … led annotation and analysis of diverse eukaryotic genomes, from protists to plants. In 2009, he launched the JGI Fungal … 331: 555-561. Ohm RA et al. Formation of mushrooms and lignocellulose degradation encoded in the genome sequence of …
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… a bioenergy plant? Meet Miscanthus , an attractive addition to your garden and a potential fuel for the future. But, … Miscanthus will need some upgrades. In this episode, hear from scientists working on understanding Miscanthus biology and the economic terrain …
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Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida high school … Florida, they encompass a wide range of ecosystems ranging from wetlands to tree islands to cattails. In 2018, the US … the resources as a user facility. The Metagenome Program team provided guidance and encouragement to submit a …
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During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research projects, hone science presentation skills, and participate in … two interns returned to re-engage with their mentors from the previous year and continue working on their …
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… is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth rates and carbon consumption of SAR11 bacteria, the most abundant … sorting and non-standard molecular protocols. Finally, his team utilizes new technologies, e.g. acoustic liquid …
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… To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At … this program, described in Plos Biology , the research team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy … evaluating these different routes. To train the model, the team used 1,870 known virus-host pairs to generate a matrix …
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… at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Kyrpides’ research focus on … et al. (2021) Metagenomic compendium of 189,680 DNA viruses from the human gut microbiome. Nat Microbiol . 6(7):960-970. … ASM’s USFCC/J. Roger Porter Award (2018) Honorary Doctorate from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2017) The van …
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… scientists are now getting more complete genomic results from single cells. The Science Studying the genomes of … DNA for genome sequencing was no easy task. The traditional way of collecting them is through a method called … Summary The two most common methods for collecting genomes from microorganisms are shotgun (group) metagenomic …
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In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As … changing planet. In this short audio production, we’ll hear from Ed Hall, an ecologist at Colorado State University in … more than 100 years. And in particular, there’s an inflow from the mining activities upstream and downstream of the …
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… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint … all the work that went into this program was the feedback from the graduate student interns; “it changed what I want … interns. For him, it was a special moment to see interns go from being “intimidated and nervous” at the beginning of the …
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