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This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the supercomputing that stitches together large datasets with the assembler …

… make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Marine Microbiology has developed, … and single-cell genomics, the vast majority of microbes that play key roles in global biogeochemical cycles remains …

… the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship, graduate students Candace Cole, Mo Kaze, Akshay Paropkari, Vicente Ramirez and Rhondene Wint had summer 2018 internships in Walnut Creek. The … is so nice and willing to help. The second is the training that I am receiving. The mentorship I am receiving at JGI is …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical cycles…. Viruses play a pretty important … recently published paper with first author Amundson in the journal Microbiome . The work builds off a proposal approved …

Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While … on cone snails, UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship … started, and overall found informatics to be intimidating. That first exposure from great interactions with Dr. Ben …

There’s a party in the soil, and microbes are the VIPs. They’re feasting on the compounds that plants secrete through their roots, creating a lively …

Dr. Blow joined the JGI in 2009, and currently heads the User Support Analysis group. He … Blow carried out postdoctoral work at LBNL, where he worked on computational and experimental approaches to study genome … in  Ensifer Species during Free-Living Growth and during Nitrogen-Fixing Symbiosis with  Medicago spp. Msystems 7 …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the …

Life as we know it wouldn’t exist without cyanobacteria; they began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone …

Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the … but varied. They’re a great way to see how climate change affects freshwater ecosystems, and how those ecosystems work. …

… joined the JGI in 2014 to develop the metabolomics program, and in 2019 became Platform Lead where she manages metabolomics production for community sequencing projects and heads R&D efforts …

To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and Leslie Mitchell (Neochromosome) have worked …