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… The Metagenome Program uses advanced sequencing technologies to decode the genomes of microbes in their … to assess microbial activity across ecosystems.  By studying microbial communities and their interactions, the … The Metagenome Program focuses on the high-throughput sequencing …

… bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. We use multi-omics (metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, single cell genomics and phylogenomics) and machine learning to identify new divergent lineages and expand the Tree of Life. We then …

… of natural products, Professor Bill Fenical from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. Bill is a pioneer of marine natural products, getting into the ocean and looking … kept looking for open jobs that said, we want a chemist to study the ocean. And I didn’t find a single job …

… Research in the Eloe-Fadrosh group focuses on using genome-resolved metagenomic approaches to identify and … computational approaches to sift through thousands of metagenomes for signatures of viruses and novel microbial … applications. By recovering population genomes from metagenomes, we gain insights into microbial interactions, …

… The CSP New Investigator Call is for investigators and research initiatives new to the JGI. Projects must be independent of ongoing JGI … about the general review process or get details on the internal synthetic biology review process .  … JGI’s sample requirements . Samples that are not available in a timely manner will delay processing, while samples that …

… ALISON TAKEMURA: So Nadine, what got you interested in studying natural products? NADINE ZIEMERT: Like almost … quality. Yeah, for sure. NADINE ZIEMERT: Yeah, Dan… it’s a marine actinomycete bacterium. So they look kind of like … that easily can identify secondary metabolite pathways in metagenomes, which is still hard to do. We are mining a lot …

… like, and then you could characterize it. The classical study that demonstrated this is Challis et al, Chemistry and … and archaeal genomes that were created – these are Metagenome Associated Genomes, or MAGs. So these are genomes … come from all kinds of disparate environments. There’s some marine. There’s some soil samples. There’s human gut …

… The Joint Genome Institute and the Molecular Foundry have launched a joint Critical Minerals and Materials proposal call . This represents a … The JGI supports remote users. Users conduct experiments in their own labs or collect field samples. Depending on the …

… grade list of goals in life: on that list are being a marine biologist and being a chemist, and it’s actually … the end, we took an approach that was kind of a simplified metagenome sequencing approach to pick this system apart.  … crack this case, then that would open up our field to other study. And so it was kind of an early example, to try to …

… in natural products as an undergrad. So for me, it was studying sort of the interface of chemistry and biology … just not enough time and money. I mean, we have a huge marine fungal project in collaboration with Bill Fenical at … the rest of the archaea and fungal genomes and then work on metagenomes. So yeah. So we’ve taken every public sequence …

…   Our Sequencing Technologies Group is well-integrated across JGI departments to ensure a robust offering of sequencing capabilities and products to our users. … An assay used for profiling transcription factor binding sites across entire genomes. This technology has been …

… Hey, Alison Takemura: Hey, Dan. Dan Udwary: Today we’re going to talk to Kate Duncan. And Kate is– I should ask, you … I wouldn’t say I was one of these people that wants to study oceanography and was fascinated by the oceans, though … wouldn’t it be cool to look at these– it was actually marine invertebrates there– but look at these things in the …