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… be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like … researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these … opens the possibility of using phages to engineer microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost …

… Programs Deputy Axel Visel teamed with University of California (UC), Merced assistant professor Suzanne Sindi from … in genomics, including JGI, is not representative of the diversity in the population, especially here in California. … Ben Cole, a project scientist in Visel’s Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions Group who has mentored several of the …

… JGI Mentors : Ben Cole & Axel Visel, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions “The summer internship has further …     Mo Kaze, UC Merced JGI Mentor : Susannah Tringe, Microbial Systems Group “Everyone here is very kind and … have done the groundbreaking work you’ve been reading about for years! And you can ask them about it! And they’re super …

… works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and …

… participants in an online workshop to harness deep learning for metagenomic data.  Metagenomic data, or DNA sequencing … to “learn” features. State of the art algorithms can perform astonishing degrees of feature recognition: for … Lab’s Biological Systems and Engineering), to assign microbial taxa (Andrew Tritt of CRD and, independently, Ying …

… and Elizabeth “Lizzy” Wilbanks of the University of California, Santa Barbara. They join eight other JGI users … Soil Microbiome SFA. She serves as Secretary within the Microbial Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of … biogeochemical cycles in soils and sediments and plant-microbial interactions in crops. He has been a PI or Co-PI …

… in early fungi and discovered genes that are critical for this process. The Impact In the absence of the … the parasite first needs to secure its own transmission before working with the host. Using the mutualistic … (Rm) and Burkholderia endobacteria, a collaborative effort led by researchers at Cornell University and scientists …

… biology and microfluidics at the University of California, San Diego. As the Sequencing Technology … Lead, he directs a multidisciplinary team responsible for piloting and operationalizing new genomic technologies, … integrating automated liquid handling and bioinformatics pipelines to transition bench-scale methods into …

… Kelly Wrighton and her group at Colorado State University in Fort Collins have a massive undertaking: sequencing the …

… of how plants adapted to terrestrial life paves the way for innovations in sustainable agriculture and clean energy. … helped plants thrive under challenging conditions could inform the development of resilient crop varieties able to … with minimal resources. Enabling the use of non-arable land for biomass production — that can be converted into biofuels …

… joint user capability between the JGI and Molecular Foundry for genome-encoded biomaterial discovery, design, and … Services Honoree, 2022 Peter-Boyer Postdoctoral Award for Research Excellence, 2015 34th Annual Women’s Recognition Award for Science, 2020 NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32), …