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… all the cool things you’re doing now?  MARCY: Sure. So my lab has really converged on the study of host-microbe … do when you’re exploring your systems. Because I think the JGI has a little bit of a different approach. We don’t … a DOE Office of Science user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. You can find links to transcripts, …

… you guys. I’m trying really hard just for you. And the JGI Comms team. But mostly you. Anyway…I’m really happy … what molecule might bind them and then allow for their release from the DNA and transcription of biosynthetic gene … DAN: Oh, I did not know that. That's cool. JACKIE: But nature can do this. BETSY PARKINSON: But nature can do it …

The Synthetic Biology lab is divided into a DNA synthesis production group and a … in new technologies, in particular through adoption of lab automation enabling ever-higher levels of throughput. We …

… 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 … out, or maybe it’s just come out by the time this gets released. And that you got to do some genome mining for that … did? What we’re talking about here is a paper published in Nature Biotechnology, titled ‘A genomic catalog of Earth’s …

… for the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI. JGI is a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … is the first episode, and at the same time I’m going to release 5 other episodes so you can get a good feeling for … how funny, you know, the human endeavor of understanding nature is: we want to categorize things into these arbitrary …

… do you check if they’re there? Like we always talk about 16S for bacteria, but we don’t talk about it so easily with … actually, everything is funding, right, isn’t it? I thank JGI for sequencing a lot of fungi. But the thing with them – … a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. You can find links to transcripts, …

… with my co-host Alison Takemura, who’s moved on from JGI to do real journalism, and we wish her all the best. … research, especially at US National Labs, like Lawrence Berkeley Lab (that’s LBL), the National Lab where JGI is … project, can you talk a little bit about the data release policy? TANJA WOYKE: Yeah, absolutely. So we do have …

… was established in part to help better-connect industry to JGI resources, as well as target academic, governmental and … JGI. The Business Development Team works closely with the Berkeley Lab Intellectual Property Office to facilitate these new …

… first genome sequence with you. Brad: That’s right,  Dan: JGI did it in fact. Brad: That was a magical project I … that then has a big impact. You know, when these toxins are released, and they get into the environment you mentioned, … of those, you know, early-on reactions that we see. And so nature does that as well. But it does it with exquisite …

I talk about SMC – which is the new Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory data portal I’ve been working on with my … Doering and Bryce Foster and too many others to name at JGI for the last two years or so. SMC is now released and ready for the public to tear it up. I’m super …

… things I want to make sure that we talk about. You have a JGI project going with us that we want to talk a little bit … a sample of, let’s say, water, and you look at it under a microscope, you can probably 2,000, 5,000 different cells, … course using modern phylogenetic tools measuring genes, the 16S gene, and comparing it with everything that’s known. So …

… now I’m working on this the afternoon of the day I’m due to release it, which is not ideal for me keeping myself on my … natural products chemistry, and he has a project with the JGI to synthesize the genes for and explore the chemistry of … Stable Isotopic Labeling . ACS Chem Biol. 2021 Aug 20;16(8):1332-1338. doi: 10.1021/acschembio.1c00329. …