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Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The accepted proposals come from 80 full proposals, resulting from 95 letters of intent. For the first time, 63 percent of the accepted proposals come from investigators who have not previously been a principal …

… in developing new methods to improve genome recovery from single cells and to build sequencing libraries from minimal DNA input without amplification. …

… viral diversity, understand the role of viruses in natural ecosystems, and functionally explore viral genetic … Alterations of Microbial Metabolism in Model Soil Ecosystems,” uses a combination of experimental approaches … how viruses infect soil microbes and influence how soil ecosystems function. He was one of the eight JGI researchers …

When they tested the screen method on a microbial community from geothermal hot springs, they uncovered a novel … to learn more about what microbes are present in any given ecosystem—particularly those that are in low abundances—and … performance, and then applied it to environmental samples from the Great Boiling Spring Geothermal Field in Nevada. To …

… how these changes affect the dynamics and functioning of ecosystems. She leads a recently approved CSP New … biology tools that can help produce value-added products from these systems. He’s worked with the JGI on various CSP … as a UEC member is increasing user program participation from researchers at non-R1 institutions, now defined as …

Ms. Ballon has a degree in molecular biology & biochemistry from Wesleyan University, and a graduate certificate in science communication from UC Santa Cruz. She is one of the Biosciences Area …

… genomic information using minute quantities of DNA derived from individual environmental cells. The proof of principle … team reported the first closed and finished genome derived from an uncultured bacterial single cell – a symbiont of the green sharpshooter. In 2012, single cells isolated from the microbes found in the oil plume from Deepwater …

… more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic sequences … of archaea and bacteria, millions of  microbes govern ecosystems. These organisms carry out important … new high-confidence host predictions across a variety of ecosystems. In particular, it predicted many more likely …

… focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. Prior to joining the …