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… Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature paper … program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The JGI sequenced over 1,000 metagenomes and established … (DOE) Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) grants DE-SC0023084, DE-SC0021350, …

… Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three groups focused on HTP DNA design and assembly, strain engineering and … development/data analysis for synthetic biology and functional genomics. Prior to joining the JGI, he was a group lead … with a view to developing a deeper understanding of sequence-based gene function. …

… clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … both partners to better understand lichen. The Impact Lichens are a model for inter-kingdom communication and … nitrocellulose filters in Petri dishes. The scientists also sequenced the fungus and photobiont’s genomes and compared …

… Newly developed chemiluminescent biosensors shed light on how bacteria function and colonize … Ec YcgR, within the Nano-lantern scaffold. They then mined sequence databases for homologous YcgR proteins and chose a … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …

… Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks … conventional food crops. For that reason, its genome was sequenced by the JGI in 2009 and it is considered to be … in the field at the UC Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center (KARE) in Parlier, Calif. They grew two …

… RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are … on or off, so transcriptional regulation is critical to ensuring genes vital for growth and survival across various … the 5’-ends by 5’-end sequencing, from which those promoter sequences recognized by a given sigma factor are inferred. …

… opportunities in fields ranging from plant-microbe interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer 2019 interns, … The JGI summer internship opened the door for me in the sense that I learned many different tools in bioinformatics …

… The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and the Joint … of tools that leverage stable isotopes to measure carbon and nutrient flux, and identify microbes assimilating … of whether or not it’s worthwhile moving forward with density separation and fraction collection. 4. Q: Are there …

… Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals … collaboration that produced the reference genome sequence for Eucalyptus grandis. Accessing recently burned …

… Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The … decaying organic matter (saprobes), and many plant pathogens known to infect most major food crops and feedstocks for … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …

… deep subsurface ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in … at virus infections. Their genomes include short DNA sequences that code for CRISPR systems, which help bacteria … resist foreign genetic elements by incorporating short sequences from infecting viruses and phages. In these …

… private sector, as well as research expertise in secondary metabolites and synthetic biology. Dr. Mouncey has a long-standing interest in microbial genetics that started with his education and carried forward into his roles as a senior research … Nigel Mouncey is the Secondary Metabolites Program head as well as our JGI Director. …