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… team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c … us to assess CRAGE’s impact, including how this application could scale,” says Mouncey. The JGI team has already … domesticate some 60 strains, inserting into them a genetic sequence that acts as a “landing pad.” Mouncey adds, “Once …

… opportunities in fields ranging from plant-microbe interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer 2019 interns, … briefly shared their experiences below. Name: Noelle Anderson Class Year: At the time of the internship, 4th year PhD …

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

… Interns contributed to a number of projects, from refining lab … artificial intelligence to aspects of research questions Another intern summer has closed at the U.S. Department … and Identification of Mitochondrial Plasmids from DNA Sequence Moitrish Majumdar Mentors: Bikash Shrestha, Crysten …

… Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The … through the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, including 55 newly-sequenced species.  The Impact The class  Dothideomycetes … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …

… Program was brimming with excitement and determination as they came onsite. From data carpentry to science communications, their … mentor Bryce Foster, Benchmarking Bioinformatics Tools for Sequence Similarity Searching Morgan Lavenstein Bendall and …

… 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 …

… As SIP experiments shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with … work to create FAIR datasets to maximize returns on these advances. Over the last two decades, Stable Isotope … a  Minimum Information for any Stable Isotope Probing Sequence (MISIP) . They differentiate between required …

… clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one … nitrocellulose filters in Petri dishes. The scientists also sequenced the fungus and photobiont’s genomes and compared …

… 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. …

… Novel archaeal lineage found in Yellowstone may have been important in early Earth conditions. The Science Through a combination of sequencing … thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence from just a few pieces of DNA. Summary The extreme … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …