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… with existing transportation fuels. Researchers also study ways to develop valuable byproducts from lignin left over after biomass processing. Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center , led by the …

But we’re not just here to talk about us. We have a great person to talk to tonight. We have Nadine Ziemert from … ALISON TAKEMURA: So Nadine, what got you interested in studying natural products? NADINE ZIEMERT: Like almost … of these environments? NADINE ZIEMERT: So we started with soil. But we also have, in collaboration with other people, …

… by exploring plants’ role in capturing carbon, detoxifying soils, interacting with other organisms, and adapting to … supports the development of next-generation biofuels by studying perennial grasses and fast-growing trees as … Plant Flagship genomes into pangenomes, which capture much greater diversity for these species. The pangenomes enable …

… strains, or enzymes to convert plant biomass components into fuels, chemicals, and bioproducts, … This drives the DOE’s focus on developing lignocellulosic biomass as a clean, renewable and sustainable alternative … to contaminants such as heavy metals or radionuclides in soils, freshwater, coastal sediments (coastal here defined  …

… the world. … But, meanwhile, I’ve been sitting on all these great interviews recorded a few months ago at the SIMB … off through these areas. And you can do– with a teaspoon of soil from outside, you maybe have to do a 10,000-fold … just now switching from intermicrobial interactions, studying intermicrobial interactions by imaging interactions …

… or pathogens) and as the most efficient degraders of plant biomass. These abilities are crucial for sustainable plant biomass production as well as converting biomass into bioenergy and bioproducts. The program’s fungal …

… the program supports foundational research related to soil nutrient cycling and health, terrestrial biogeochemical … samples — including microbes, fungi, plants and soils. Through a combination of experimental workflows and … health, and bioenergy development. … EcoFABs:  For studying microbe-host (or plant-microbiome) interactions …

… … DAN UDWARY: Hey, everyone. I’ve got a great episode for you here today. We got the opportunity to … kept looking for open jobs that said, we want a chemist to study the ocean. And I didn’t find a single job … are many others, including Streptomycetes, which are common soil bacteria. DAN UDWARY: Yeah, we talk about them a lot …

… who already work in natural products, you’re going to get a great look at the intersection of traditional medicines and … And for the audience, ethnobotany is the scientific study of the ways that people interact with plants, whether … and culture-disconnected. Like we’ll take some soil samples and sequence all the bugs out of that or …

… coming up, August 30th through September 1st. Three days of great science, and all online and free. We had to cancel … forced it on me, but we always had these scientific news magazines lying around at home. And I would just pick them … And these were not in natural products, these were in studying regulatory mechanisms of, first, E. coli and then …

… and where we are today. After that, we have lots of great conversations that we’ve already recorded with some … is a chemical compound called geosmin that’s produced by soil bacteria that live all over the place. So that smell of … I’m definitely seeing why this is such an important area to study. Okay, what’s your third story?  DAN: The third story …

… is the podcast for you. A lot of this is based on a really great paper that came out in 2020 where this is all … can catch him again some time to chat about it. This was a great conversation which has really shaped some of my views … things and why I am wrong, and also talk about some of the great science that he does. So welcome to the show Paco …