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… a program that involves researching the local marine environment. I went out and picked up marine plants, I picked … Not at all. We just tested. And we tested more and more. Mainly we asked the question, does this chemical compound … powerful people. These were people that really controlled microbial drug discovery. And a guy like me, with no …

The JGI’s Microbial Program focuses on using cutting-edge sequencing, … These insights are crucial for addressing key environmental challenges, such as improving soil health, carbon … genomes, metagenomes, and metatranscriptomes. It provides rich data such as inferred host taxonomy, conjugation …

… see what caves have to offer because they’re unique environments. These are structures that are millions of years … of thought with that. So some people are interested in cave microbial– people are interested in the more extreme … have been actinomycete-specific approaches. And you can enrich for rare actinomycetes by doing some tricks. Treating …

… you do take that into account? Or do you and your lab focus mainly on what can we feed this and what can it actually … flavors. So non-heme enzymes, it just means that they need iron. DAN UDWARY: Right. ALISON NARAYAN: They have iron in … You can really design your experiments in a way that’s data rich, and you can really just learn so much, which then …

Institute is under the DOE’s mission of energy and environment. And so we know that lots of different types of … pieces by hybridization or maybe sequencing if you were rich enough. [CHUCKLES] And once you found a little piece of … of the IMG data portal , which is a larger portal for microbial genomics. IMG stands for Integrated Microbial …

… program for faculty to “claim” the JGI’s unpublished microbial genomes, with the expectation that faculty will … (MAGs), and 40,000+ metagenomes along with curated environmental- and other metadata to enable comprehensive … Microbiol Resour Announc. 2025 Draft Genome Sequence of  Trichococcus flocculiformis DSM 2094T Isolated from Bulking …

… “incarnation”, for this series of meetings. It’s because – mainly it’s due to the emerging technology on DNA sequencing … genomic revolution, to me, as a natural part chemist for microbial natural product, is that I love microbial natural … technology as we are doing for the enediynes, we can enrich the chemical space of natural products in almost a …

JGI’s Community Science Program , or CSP, which is the main mechanism by which users work with our facility to do … within the DOE is BER, which stands for Biological and Environmental Research, which is a program that funds JGI and … the user programs at the JGI, and I’m also the head of the microbial genome program. And I’m a scientist here. And have …

… tell us about this squid-microbe relationship. Or is it a microbial community with microbial community relationship?  … your opinion then on bioprospecting in sparse nutrient environments versus the tropics? Because like you say there is … of environments that we’ve looked at, like the nutrient rich tropical kinds of environments, where there are more …

The IMG group owns and maintains integral components of JGI’s production … genomic data and serving them to users via the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. Research …

… unique they are, how they survive in this hypersaline environment, which can range from 8% to 28% salinity. We have … are familiar with JGI’s IMG data portal , the Integrated Microbial Genomics, there was a subsection of that called … especially in academic circles, none of us are getting rich off of the things that we discover. That– it’s a very …

… to decode the genomes of microbes in their natural environments. This work encompasses bacteria, archaea, and … genetic elements. Beyond exploring and characterizing microbial diversity, work in the Metagenome Program uses … annotation of all publicly available genomes from three domains of life, in a uniquely integrated context.  … The …