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… With collaborative user projects, the JGI’s Plant Program … A major focus are biofuel feedstock species and plant-microbe interactions, advancing efforts to create renewable … The Plant Program advances our understanding of plants’ … of natural compounds that support disease resistance, with applications in sustainable agriculture, including the …

… week is Professor Cassandra Quave from Emory University, with joint appointments in the School of Medicine and … curator there, with a broad range of experimental work on plants for drug discovery in antibiotics, anticancer, and … a really interesting field that I guess– so I’m more of a microbe guy, and as is Alison, or not a guy, but [LAUGHS] a …

… Plants are complex organisms that harbor a fantastic … fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental microbial pathogens, and associated viruses that all contribute to a dynamic ecosystem. We are interested in how plants self-organize, influence, and are influenced by …

… the world who have made additions to antiSMASH, contributed features. That has been great fun to actually work with so … called “disease suppression”, where the microbiome of a plant, so the bacteria living on and inside the roots are … a nice example of going from a whole community with many microbes, hundreds of gene clusters, and then being able to …

… and we talk about an ongoing project I’ve been working with him on as an exploration into the secondary metabolism … local marine environment. I went out and picked up marine plants, I picked up animals. And I asked the simple … you think about the fact that, when plants and animals and microbes evolve, they evolve to make molecules that improve …

… The Plant Program Advisory Committee is chartered to offer … on the effective management and strategic objectives of the plant program. The committee serves as the program's key …

… techniques to explore the vast and diverse world of microbes. Studying bacteria and archaea, including those associated with microeukaryotes, enhances our understanding of … sequencing technologies to explore microbial diversity — with an emphasis on bacteria and archaea, and including …

… that I wanted to include it. This is a conversation with Marc Chevrette. Marc is a postdoc in Jo Handelsman’s … was looking to develop new methods for DNA sequencing of microbes. And what kept breaking our methods was these damn … As a host, and a little bit of my newer work is focused on plants, but in both cases, you know, these molecules are how …

… Sure. So my lab has really converged on the study of host-microbe chemistry. And the interactions– As much as we … to do an independent study on ethnobotany of some of the plants that people were using for medicines in this very … this the needle in the Haystack. Because if we have 10,000 features which one do we look at because we are a small lab? …

… As a National User Facility, the JGI serves more than 2,500 users that predominately come from the public sector: academic and government institutions — with capabilities that had remained largely unknown and … Director Nigel Mouncey joined the JGI in 2017, he brought with him 20 years of industry experience — and an …

… in making this happen. We had a really fun conversation with Roger about all this, in terms of how to build an … for Bill Gerwick as part of the International Biodiversity Drug Discovery consortium doing natural products … transcriptomics, metabolomics, and natural products in plants, fungi, and microorganisms. If you want to …

… of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. We use … Understanding the complex relationships between microbes and eukaryotes and their impact on ecosystem … investigate the intricate networks of relationships between microbes and their hosts. Our work reveals how these …