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For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually … glomerata . To see how gene expression changes when living together versus apart, the team grew the fungus and alga, …

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… due to the pandemic. And she’s sleeping in our bedroom together with us still while she’s still four months old. So … come when they want to see you handle a pipet for making a nice video. Alison Takemura: Marnix, It’s just from … antiSMASH. And it’s actually quite a challenge also in making a tool that is not too easy to– for which it’s not …

… with separate review schedules and selection processes, making it difficult to propose projects that truly …

… of Utah. I’ve known Eric for a long time – we worked together on Aflatoxin biosynthesis while he was a postdoc in … way, is to make a protein using the normal cellular way of making proteins, with a ribosome. Then, some other enzymes … them. Is it the animal or part of the microbiome that’s making these compounds? So in the end, we took an approach …

… of the structures and also the challenge and thinking about making them. So I really came at it not necessarily based on … take those structures as inspirations to really start making other molecules related to those scaffolds. DAN … yellow, very fun. So in our collaboration with JGI, we put together our wish list of sequences for flavin-dependent …

… also a really good friend of mine. I met him when we worked together at the late great Warp Drive Bio, a biotech startup … research-as-learning course. So they’re in the lab, they’re making discoveries, there is no like, you know, do your … And they’re really excited about the strides that they’re making in terms of stewardship. Now, that’s mostly talking …

… over about a month.  DAN: What are those bacteria making?  MARCY: What are those– they make chemistry! And so … fact, we are interested in how the community itself works together to elicit new metabolite production. And we are … any kind of a platform.  MARCY: That’s interesting. Just making sure that natural products is as inclusive as it can …

… of genome browsers, etc. The users, collaborators and JGI together aim to publish the first analysis of data produced …

… codes for proteins that do the chemistry that put molecules together that become bioactive molecules in some cases, … biosynthesis of a secondary metabolite, those are clustered together in a genome for some reason. So if you could find a … mining, how the biosynthetic gene clusters are clustered together so it can be easy to find the whole pathway. So how …