Computational Biologist Postdoctoral Fellow – DOE Joint Genome Institute

Function-driven Metagenomics for Energy and the Environment The mission of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) is to advance genomics in support of the DOE missions related to energy and the environment. Located in Walnut Creek, California, the DOE JGI provides integrated high-throughput DNA sequencing, synthesis, and computational analysis that enables …

A really important technique for metagenomic studies: stable isotope probing

Another really interesting microbial diversity paper in mBio.  This one is from Josh Neufeld and colleagues: Multisubstrate Isotope Labeling and Metagenomic Analysis of Active Soil Bacterial Communities. The key thing they did is summarized in their abstract: We incubated samples from three disparate Canadian soils (tundra, temperate rainforest, and agricultural) with five native carbon (12C) or …