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… about microbiology and natural products from the Great Salt Lake, and you’re going to learn, like me, what a … the natural product potential of microorganisms from Great Salt Lake, which is a hypersaline terminal lake about 30 … JGI. These organisms we’re finding– at least by looking at their full genomes — are really not like anything that’s …

… complex relationships between microbes and eukaryotes and their impact on ecosystem function: We investigate the … intricate networks of relationships between microbes and their hosts. Our work reveals how these interactions shape … A predictive tool for microbial symbionts in environmental sequence data, including …

… of young researchers, so it’s important to me to tell their stories too. If you have one of those stories, or want … pathways, they’ve got really high GC content, which means their base usage is skewed, and that can mess with some of … and in some cases of really extremely small genomes, like symbionts that can’t live without their host. They have no …

… into the coding potential of candidate phyla  to decipher their possible roles in the environment, establish …

… and associated organisms, including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental microbial pathogens, and associated … function of these phage genes is the modulation of their bacterial host to colonize plant roots, as with …

… explores the vast diversity of fungi and algae to unlock their potential for bioenergy, environmental sustainability, … and biogeochemistry. This research helps translate their genomic potential into practical applications, … are essential for ecosystem functioning — particularly in their roles associated with plants (mycorrhizae, endophytes, …

… MARCY: And that they’re laid – unlike octopus which tend to their eggs and so they don’t get biofilm. Squid just deposit … bacteria which are not incredibly numerous are protecting their eggs with these compounds? And we think maybe the … I think, for the fungus garden and some of the bacterial symbionts. And so of course, the work that we’re doing is …

… microbes evolve, they evolve to make molecules that improve their survival. Those molecules, over evolutionary time, … we found that bacteria isolated from the ocean required salt. Oh, interesting. What are they doing with the salt? Well, maybe they’re just balancing cells against …

… The fungus is almost always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its influence on the … still not well understood — scientists can better fine-tune their engineering efforts of both plants and root … that, unlike pathogenic or mycorrhizal fungi (mutualist symbionts that induce structural changes in plant roots),  …

… and C. Stephens. Genome sequences of key bacterial symbionts of entomopathogenic nematodes: Xenorhabdus …

… a recent issue of mSystems , scientists found that adding salt to the growth medium caused Streptomyces coelicolor to … conditions and found that adding a small amount of common salt to the Streptomyces coelicolor growth medium most … the same integrated approach to unlock useful chemistry in their organisms of interest — accelerating discovery of …

… synthetic biology, that maybe they don’t have available in their labs, and we use our resources to help them solve … right? It turns out, it takes the bark from three yew trees in order to make enough or to isolate enough taxol to … are everywhere, they’re moving around, even from fungus to trees and doing things that are useful to us or harmful to …