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… alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha … why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other organisms – …

Micro-Scale Applications head Rex Malmstrom and Metagenome Program head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more targeted approaches to reconstruct individual microbes in an environmental … recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach …

… chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play an outsize role in cycling carbon and … researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … collaboration, in 2017, they published the first genome sequence of a cold-adapted microalga: the diatom …

… of infecting different host species? Or, do they tend to specialize, infecting just a single host? Another wrinkle … lysogeny, they can insinuate themselves inside the host’s genome, living quietly and replicating with their host … National Laboratory, used single-cell sequencing to sequence both a cell’s genome and detect accompanying viral …

… is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … of significant interest for their potential contributions to a sustainable bioeconomy, including, potentially, methane … enabled by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot process all of …

… technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a … in Streptomyces coelicolor . The Impact As an integrative genome science user facility, connecting genes to functions … the 5’-ends by 5’-end sequencing, from which those promoter sequences recognized by a given sigma factor are inferred. …

Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired … in fields ranging from plant-microbe interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer 2019 … Year: 3rd year undergraduate student Mentor: Zhong Wang, Genome Analysis What effect has your summer internship with …

…   Each year, the JGI accepts proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from potential users who need help translating genomic information into biological function. Through our CSP Functional Genomics … and omics capabilities to enhance understanding of gene and genome function.  Below find a list of the six researchers …