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… collaborative user projects, the JGI’s Plant Program delves into the natural world’s potential to address global challenges by exploring plants’ role in capturing carbon, detoxifying soils, interacting with other organisms, and adapting to …

The JGI’s Microbial Program focuses on using cutting-edge sequencing, annotation and analysis … to explore the vast and diverse world of microbes. Studying bacteria and archaea, including those associated with … environmental challenges, such as improving soil health, carbon sequestration and bioeconomy applications. The …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … compounds, Alison. They are – if you can imagine – two carbons in a triple bond attached to two carbons in a double … origin is around 30,000 from fungal, and a 40,000 from bacteria. Okay? And among the 40,000 from bacteria, there’s …

See below for examples of successful Letters of Intent to our Community Science Program Large-Scale Call, as … metabolic flexibility? … Microbial contributions to soil carbon storage during simulated range shifts of plant-fungal … of simplified soil communities with high and low carbon use efficiency across differing moisture treatments … …

… is Professor Cassandra Quave from Emory University, with joint appointments in the School of Medicine and College of … a check-up on me. And I wonder how that intersects with bacterial bioprospecting that is often done, where we’re … we don’t always know necessarily or pay attention to where bacteria come from. And do people even know that the …

… of natural products, Professor Bill Fenical from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. Bill is a pioneer … into the secondary metabolism of some more novel marine bacteria. You know, I first met Bill as a postdoc working … don’t we do that? DAN UDWARY: What were you doing before bacteria then? BILL FENICAL: Well, we were studying marine …

… fantastic diversity of cell types and associated organisms, including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental microbial pathogens, and … This is a dynamic and complex ecosystem that includes bacteria, fungi, viruses. Resident viruses can be found in a …

… for another episode of Natural Prodcast. Right now I’m working on this the afternoon of the day I’m due to release it, … colleagues. Aaron is doing some cool stuff with cool bacteria that I’m fascinated to learn more about. He works with methylotrophs, which are a group of carbon-fixing bacteria that I would say are are still fairly …

DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … find, things that are of interest. And usually, in terms of bacteria and secondary metabolism, those things that we want … oxidative conversions and do some really complicated carbon skeleton rearrangements, chemistry that we probably …

… to unlock their potential for bioenergy, environmental sustainability, and bioproducts. By sequencing and analyzing the … that enable fungi and algae to play a vital role in carbon cycling, biodegradation and biogeochemistry. This … play a critical role in ecological processes such as carbon cycling, biodegradation and biogeochemistry. The …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … through the stories I told you about geosmin, which is a bacterial sacred metabolite, and ergot alkaloids come from … But… DAN: Yeah, there are a lot of ways to put together carbon molecules. Chemistry is pretty limitless. All right, …

The Metagenome Program uses advanced sequencing technologies to decode the genomes of microbes in their natural environments. This work encompasses bacteria, archaea, and micro-eukaryoes, along with their … communities contribute to critical processes such as carbon cycling, nutrient cycling, and energy flow. One of …