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The Fungal & Algal Program explores the vast diversity of fungi and algae to unlock their potential for bioenergy, … sustainability, and bioproducts. By sequencing and analyzing the genomes of these organisms, the program …

The Fungal & Algal Program Advisory Committees is chartered by … on the effective management and strategic objectives of the Program. The Committee serves as the Program's key external advisory panels and advocates of Program strategy, operations, and scientific relevance …

… … DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural Prodcast– a … bright guy who’s been thinking for a long time about the evolution and natural products systems. This conversation … Yeah, so any metabolite, produced by bacterial or fungal metabolism by microbes, will have a functional role. …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a … where I was a graduate student. Aflatoxin, of course, is a fungal natural product which is a liver toxin when humans … They’re at the base of the animal kingdom, in terms of evolution. Because they’re sitting there, they tend to have …

Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) that consists of coordinated hands-on experiments across fungal biology teaching labs. The purpose of the program is … of new fungal species.  Students collect fungi, sterilize tissue, isolate genes and more. The metadata then goes …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a … episode is our conversation with Nancy Keller, a fantastic fungal natural products researcher from the University of … understand that a little bit better, with some advances in evolution and cell biology. I’m interested in that. And we …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a … among many, many major discoveries since the genomic revolution, to me, as a natural part chemist for microbial … natural products of microbial origin is around 30,000 from fungal, and a 40,000 from bacteria. Okay? And among the …

DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural Prodcast, a … it has a really interesting biosynthetic pathway because fungal genes are cool. And if you like fungal genes, you … do some sort of slightly novel chemistry. That’s just how evolution works. So if secondary metabolism is really …

… … DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural Prodcast, a … Nadine Ziemert from the University of Tübingen in Germany. Like me, she’s a genome miner and has been involved with the … And I found her review in natural product reports on the evolution of genome mining and microbes with Mohammad …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a … where this happened have a tendency to be susceptible to a fungal infection of rye grain – a specific fungus, Claviceps … near this tree and so there was probably some historical evolutionary event where the DNA transferred from the fungus …

Hey, everyone! Welcome to the “Self Promotion Episode” of Natural Prodcast. A little bit of a bonus episode, since … not enough time and money. I mean, we have a huge marine fungal project in collaboration with Bill Fenical at … for thousands of years, but we’d like to start comparing evolution in real time to maybe like hypersaline …

… are complex organisms that harbor a fantastic diversity of cell types and associated organisms, including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental microbial … ecosystem. We are interested in how plants self-organize, influence, and are influenced by microbial partners. We …