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Krishna is responsible for the design and maintenance of the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) data warehouse, and integration of …

… and genomics to study endosymbiotic associations within microbial eukaryotes. He hopes to broaden our understanding of the roles these associations play in the evolutionary history of life. …

… compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays ) produces … corn variety and protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that maize … zealexins. These genes were synthesized by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE …

Joint Genome Institute hosted several UC Merced students this past summer. This year’s cohort for the JGI-UC Merced … Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth … be able to learn how to do. Ravikiran Madichetty : The best part of interning at JGI for me has been definitely the …

Marcel is in charge of several production pipelines (gene calling, functional annotation and methylomics) that run on microbial genomes and metagenomes. He also works on automating intra-department data exchange and assists with large scale …

Megan Keller and Julia Kelliher; [below] Vassili Kouvelis, Seppe Kuehn, Tesfaye Mengiste, Egbert Schwartz, Hannah … Annual Call. “It’s exciting to see the diverse portfolio of successful CSP proposals this year,” noted Tanja Woyke, … in: sustainable biofuel and bioproducts production, global carbon and nutrient cycling, and biogeochemistry. You can …

… crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single … on all continents, including Antarctica where it is a major part of the flora, fire moss has adapted to conditions such …

Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying microbial communities. These experiments can show which … SIP labwork and analysis can be very demanding.  The JGI offers SIP analysis to make these experiments accessible to …

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… (UEC) recently welcomed three new members earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National … Soil Microbiome SFA. She serves as Secretary within the Microbial Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of … needs. Wilbanks is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at UCSB, …

Uri Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling … he develops tools for viral discovery and analysis, with a particular fondness for RNA viruses – though he'll take a look at anything related to microbial parasites. When not debugging pipelines, he can be …

… with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory … as identification of target genes of transcription factors, particularly sigma factors that initiate transcription in bacteria. Using this technology, which combines an in vitro transcription …