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… who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel Prize recognizes … Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority …
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Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the …
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A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory … from the ACTIVE SITES Research Center (ACSI), the Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU) of the University … devices we recently developed allow us to produce multi-monodispersed droplets in a two-dimensional plane by …
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Register here The workshop is addressed to students and professionals of biology, biomedical research, the health … and seminars as well as practical hands-on sessions in bioinformatics and biostatistics Several sessions will be devoted to training in the use of the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system, presented by …
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… and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, …
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Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in … of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process for AAM Fellows is based on their records of scientific … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Woyke has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single …
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In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among … sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was … sequence reads to link mobile elements such as plasmids to microbial host cells. In a separate article, research …
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