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A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated … of interest in a complex environmental sample and then sorting these cells so that their DNA could be sequenced. … to standard FISH where a one probe adds one fluorescent molecule when bound to a target, HCR-FISH attaches multiple …

… and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever … including those that require fluorescence activated cell sorting and non-standard molecular protocols.  Finally, his … dissertation in life sciences 2006 … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants … of how plants adapted to terrestrial life paves the way for innovations in sustainable agriculture and clean energy. … resources. Enabling the use of non-arable land for biomass production — that can be converted into biofuels and …

… and cyanobacteria create the air we breathe and the fuel for food webs as they turn carbon dioxide and water into … — amino acid structures that harvest light, transport molecules and regulate reactions. Identifying these proteins … found that this protein detects iron and fine-tunes energy production, allowing cyanobacteria to quickly adapt to their …

Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, we peek into how scientists Aindrila Mukhopadhyay and Steve Singer …

Take a virtual tour of the IGB, home of the DOE Joint Genome Institute. To navigate virtual tours of each … the frontiers of environmental and energy genomics.  For more information about the science depicted, click here …

… methane a year, which is over half the total global methane production. They are thought to use billions of tons of the … cycle. All methanogenic archaea use one of three pathways for methanogenesis: hydrogen-dependent and CO2-reducing, or … researchers applied mini-metagenomics to these samples by sorting the microbes into small pools of cells that were …