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… coat to protect the eggs as they’re developing over about a month.  DAN: What are those bacteria making?  MARCY: What … do when you’re exploring your systems. Because I think the JGI has a little bit of a different approach. We don’t … so we’ve been working with metals and in particular rare earth elements or Rare Earth metals with our cultures.  And …

… to the California gold rush. And we’ll talk about a new JGI paper that’s just come out where I got the chance to do … mediate a well functioning ecosystem and environment and earth. So yeah, it’s like these molecules can just mediate … did? What we’re talking about here is a paper published in Nature Biotechnology, titled ‘A genomic catalog of Earth’s …

… where, among lots of other things, he works on the Tiny Earth project, which you’ll hear him describe. [ Go here to learn more about Tiny Earth and the JGI’s role in the project by watching Amanda Hurley’s … a year. And that was those numbers were quoted a couple of months ago. We’re always growing. So those are probably out …

… first genome sequence with you. Brad: That’s right,  Dan: JGI did it in fact. Brad: That was a magical project I … had experienced the largest bloom ever observed on planet Earth. This was the 2015 Pseudonichia diatom bloom. It made … that Merck has, that was published in Science just a few months ago, where Merck scientists and Codexis scientists …

… for the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI. JGI is a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … how funny, you know, the human endeavor of understanding nature is: we want to categorize things into these arbitrary …

But um, yeah, so secondary metabolism is throughout nature, except maybe for animals and humans, not as much. … have that goal. That’s not as much our goal here at the JGI – we are not a medicinally focused organization. And so, … why we are still sequencing lots of stuff, and why the JGI is a key driver in some of the science. ALISON: Very …

With collaborative user projects, the JGI’s Plant Program delves into the natural world’s … to create renewable energy sources and bolster agricultural resilience. The program’s discoveries support a plant based … capture atmospheric carbon, helping to regulate Earth's carbon balance, to exploring the genetic basis of …

… state of things, and what we’re hoping to accomplish at JGI in this area. If this series of podcast episodes has … recommend David Hopwood’s book called  “Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine.” It’s obviously focused more on the … thought that combinatorial chemistry, learning some of the lessons from natural products, in terms of what kinds of …

This should be coming out on the first Thursday of the month, just like I promised. Now I just have to make this … you guys. I’m trying really hard just for you. And the JGI Comms team. But mostly you. Anyway…I’m really happy … BETSY PARKINSON: Yeah. DAN: Are you familiar with Tiny Earth? BETSY PARKINSON: I am familiar with Tiny Earth, yeah. …

… for Episode 7 of the Natural Prodcast. It’s been about a month now since we dropped our first six episodes, and now … think his energy is infectious. DAN: I’ll say up front that JGI recently started collaborating with Ben and his group to … to the Primer episodes, then you heard me talk about JGI’s Earth Secondary Metabolome initiative, and our collaboration …

Doering and Bryce Foster and too many others to name at JGI for the last two years or so. SMC is now released and … his lab when he was at University of Arizona. And I think a month later, we packed up and moved to SIO, UCSD. So I was … microorganisms that may be of interest to you and folks at JGI. These organisms we’re finding– at least by looking at …

… and head of the Secondary Metabolites Science Program at JGI, and also my boss, Nigel Mouncey. I got him on to talk about JGI’s vision for secondary metabolism, his past in industry … slides that float around here, there is a term called “Earth’s Secondary Metabolome.” Do you want to explain to …