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Genome Insider Episode 4: The Big Deal About Short Plants

The Genome Insider podcast presents JGI-supported research on the “short plant,” Ceratodon purpureus or fire moss. Its genome could shed light on gene function in other plants, including bioenergy sources. Guests Stuart McDaniel and his then-graduate student Sarah Carey of the University of Florida were interviewed at the Plant & Animal Genome (PAG) Conference held in early 2020. [Read More]

Natural Prodcast Episode 9 – Roger Linington

In this episode of the Natural Prodcast, guest Roger Linington from Simon Fraser University talks about how his group has turned to some software development in order to build the tools that they need. The Natural Product Atlas, a high-quality freely-available natural products structure database developed produced by a large international collaboration, is one result of his group’s efforts. [Read More]

Genome Insider Episode 3: River Microbiomes From Around The World

The Genome Insider podcast presents JGI-supported research by Kelly Wrighton and her team at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. With more than a dozen principal investigators, the group has a massive undertaking: sequencing the world’s river microbiomes. JGI is a user facility of the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science and located at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA. [Read More]

Natural Prodcast Episode 8 – Eric Schmidt

This episode of the Natural Prodcast podcast features guest Eric W. Schmidt from the University of Utah. Dr. Schmidt is a natural products chemist who works in a wide variety of marine organisms, including sponges, tunicates, cone snails, fungi, and bacteria. The interview was conducted at the SIMB Natural Products conference in January 2020. [Read More]

Natural Prodcast Episode 7: Ben Shen

Enediynes, enabling technologies, and leveraging a large microbial strain collection for natural product discovery. In Episode 7 of Natural Prodcast, Ben Shen from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) chats with Dan Udwary and Alison Takemura about enediynes and their use in medicine, how Ben got fascinated with natural products by working on terpene chemistry, TSRI’s acquisition of the Pfizer strain collection, and our collaborations to sequence that collection, mine genomes, and develop new technology to access natural products. [Read More]

Genome Insider Episode 2: Role of Viruses in Releasing Greenhouse Gases? (2/2)

Genome Insider is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and TuneIn Radio. Subscribe today! The Genome Insider podcast presents research by Gary Trubl, a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. He’s using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses in the thawing arctic influence the flow of soil carbon. JGI is a user facility of the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science and located at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA. [Read More]

Natural Prodcast Episode 6: Marc Chevrette

This episode of the Natural Prodcast podcast, features a conversation with Marc Chevrette. Marc is a postdoctoral fellow in Jo Handelsman’s group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where, among lots of other things, he works on the Tiny Earth project. [Read More]