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The Fungal & Algal Program explores the vast diversity of fungi and algae to unlock their potential for bioenergy, … solutions, fostering a bioeconomy powered by nature’s resources. … The Fungal & Algal Program harnesses cutting-edge …

Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex … which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest their last leafy meal. In their … has revealed, for the first time, that this group is unexpectedly powerful: they can whip up dozens of complex …

Secondary Metabolites Program focuses on the exploration of secondary metabolites across bacteria, fungi, algae and plants. These molecules, which are not … The program works to uncover these hidden biochemical resources by exploring the genetic pathways responsible for …

Michelle O’Malley and Tom Lankiewicz of UC Santa Barbara discuss the importance of studying anaerobic fungi, as well as a recent discovery that turns scientific …

… bacterial sacred metabolite, and ergot alkaloids come from fungi, and Taxol from plants. Plants, fungi, bacteria, … that we have. There are animals that are known to be sources of secondary metabolites, like sponges were a really … of bacteria and the things that they’re doing in the human gut. Turns out, there’s a lot of chemistry happening there – …

… transcripts and show notes with links to lots of other resources, especially for these primer episodes, if you want … in the earlier primers. In bacteria, at least, and in most fungi, biosynthetic gene clusters, which are the genes that … some marine. There’s some soil samples. There’s human gut samples. There’s lots and lots of– animal associated, …

… for you here today. We got the opportunity to talk to one of the real legends of natural products, Professor Bill … people never thought they would ever see from a natural source. They contain bromine, they contain chlorine. And we … from the ocean. We didn’t know whether to study bacteria, fungi, archaea, the whole range of microbial life. So, we …

… of our future, is challenging ourselves to really bring new sources in and really being sort of agnostic to the organism … a glass fermenter, but is the fermenter also known as our gut? And can you be able to re engineer the gut microbiota … metabolomics, and natural products in plants, fungi, and microorganisms. If you want to collaborate, let …

Hey, everyone! Welcome to the “Self Promotion Episode” of Natural Prodcast. A little bit of a bonus episode, since … with Christian, I started getting a little bit more into fungi and learning the differences of all the genetic … Clusters. And at the time, it was a really good resource for secondary metabolism BGCs at a time when it was …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a … there undefended, and, so, many of them are loaded with chemicals that they make that are very potent in preventing … marine organisms. Except during the time that we worked in fungi. But what do you see as the overall theme of your …

… it just kind of came together in the most delightful and unexpected way. So I had to leave with that chance when it … a structure for ensuring that the countries that are the source of that soil can receive some recompense. So this … nothing for. We’re also working on organisms, pathogenic fungi like Candida aureus in the lab and we work on …

… know that that’s ever necessarily like a good description of anyone because chemistry means a lot, especially when … bacteria so what’s – I guess that maybe you could say the gut is, kind of. But not the same way this is designed … working on that aspect and it’s quite active against some fungi. But we’re also really interested in distribution. So …