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… delicately above the leaf debris are revealed to be single bacterial cells, visible to the naked eye. The unusual size … described the morphological and genomic features of this giant filamentous bacterium, along with its life cycle. For … in some of the simplest organisms,” said Shailesh Date, founder and CEO of LRC, and one of the article’s senior …

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 … associated with microeukaryotes. The program also studies giant viruses. Key research areas include terrestrial …

… is Professor Cassandra Quave from Emory University, with joint appointments in the School of Medicine and College of … home. ALISON TAKEMURA: Wow, amazing. I don’t know how you found the time to write a book but based on your … a check-up on me. And I wonder how that intersects with bacterial bioprospecting that is often done, where we’re …

… … DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … products systems. This conversation came about because he challenged me on my use of the term “secondary metabolism.” … work like ActDES, which is a curated database of actinobacteria for evolutionary studies, and hopefully we can …

… … 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 … went on the hunt for other similar bacteria or fungi, and found them. And that’s why penicillin saved millions of …

Hey, Alison Takemura: Hey, Dan. Dan Udwary: Today we’re going to talk to Kate Duncan. And Kate is– I should ask, you … biology classes in undergrad, but my PhD was an actinobacteria. And I tell all my students this now, but when I … new chemistry. If we want to stop finding stuff that we’ve found, or finding stuff that’s similar to things that we …

… right. Welcome back to Natural Prodcast. I did it. I’m keeping to my schedule. This should be coming out on the first … about several different pieces of her work, including bacterial quorum sensing and its effects on regulation of … as what we initiated our search around. And so we found examples of those, and then looked for NRPSs nearby, …

And a lot of us moved on to work in simpler systems, like bacteria, where we figure we can make more progress faster, … long. Well, when we went looking for a photo of John, we found one from the 70s in the Scripps library, and in it … PhD mentor, the late, great D. John Faulkner. He was a giant in the field, and left behind a legacy of fantastic …

… 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 … we now know that organic molecules in the ocean are the foundation of communication by chemical means, of survival …

… of microbial metabolism towards a minority of cultivated bacteria, still persists to date. Research Team    … … Australian Centre for Ecogenomics Patrick Schwientek: Cofounder & CTO, Oralta … Schulz F., Roux S., Paez-Espino D., … K. T., Eloe-Fadrosh E. A., Kyrpides N. C., Woyke T . Giant virus diversity and host interactions through global …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … in Nature and Medicine.” It’s obviously focused more on the bacterial side of the field, and it’s a little hard to find … that came out of investigating those genes is that it was found that most biosynthetic genes are found clustered in …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … been dominated for … well, as long as I can remember, by bacterial research.  So it was great to hear her passion and … ITS which we thought would identify to species”… he’s now found that some fungi have different ITS sequences in their …