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The Fungal & Algal Program explores the vast diversity of fungi and algae to unlock their potential for bioenergy, … program investigates the biological mechanisms that enable fungi and algae to play a vital role in carbon cycling, … advanced genomic analysis to explore the rich diversity of fungi and algae. These organisms play a critical role in …

… when we start talking to people who specialize in that area. In this primer, we talk about my favorite topic in, … washed down off the hills might carry small pieces of gold along with them and end up in the beds of little streams. … metabolism when the genes are similar is a big fuzzy gray line. And so, the things that we know about, the things …

… put some more info in the show notes, which you can find, along with a transcript at naturalproducts.com . We also … marine organisms. Except during the time that we worked in fungi. But what do you see as the overall theme of your … actually do have interesting chemistry, but it’s not an area that we work on. We’ve worked almost exclusively with …

… bioeconomy. ALL PROPOSALS must support the DOE/BER Mission Areas we serve, see below.  … The U.S. Department of Energy … Laboratory ( Berkeley Lab ) and part of the Biosciences Area. Supported by the DOE Office of Science's Biological … of University and Research; all specimens collected and fungi isolated are preserved in the Culture Collection of …

… natural chemical compounds that you find in plants, fungi and bacteria, basically all living things. When your … metabolites really in my studies. So this is, is an area that was adjacent to what I worked on, but my … we are, and start to cover the basics in this field. This, along with parts 2 and 3, should be a great place to start …

… to write a book but it’s really hard to break into that area. I mean you have to secure an agent and there’s all … nothing for. We’re also working on organisms, pathogenic fungi like Candida aureus in the lab and we work on … And so even just that sun exposure probably has different spectrums of compounds between what’s in its stem or root …

… because a lot of soldiers in the Iraq and Afghanistan area were coming back with these really bad infections. So … and metabolomics, to ask these questions. DAN: How far along do you feel like we are in terms of completing the … it’s in the soil.  DAN: That’s right.  MARC: So that whole spectrum there is – I think there’s a lot of ecology to …

So it was great to hear her passion and enthusiasm for fungi. And we talk a lot about some of the technical … there should be a few more in the feed, that I’m releasing along with this one, at the same time.   But now, here’s the … products and fungal biosynthesis. What’s kept you in that area?   NANCY: Oh, well, I love fungi, okay, this doesn’t …

… was thinking about what I wanted to do with cancer. And along the way I took so many biology classes, I ended up … working on that aspect and it’s quite active against some fungi. But we’re also really interested in distribution. So … transition. In this episode, we discuss her work in many areas of chemical exploration of natural products for …

… from drug discovery in every possible disease target area, using an enormous array of different isolation … now, we’re seeing this sort of new generation of tools come along, which provide a much broader view on natural product … work. And so I think there are opportunities across the spectrum from those who are doing very fundamental research, …

… and biology because I was getting dual bachelor’s in both areas. And I took a class in natural products. That was my … those? JACLYN WINTER: Sure. I’ve had some great mentors along the journey. And so I started my PhD in Brad Moore’s … with Christian, I started getting a little bit more into fungi and learning the differences of all the genetic …

We get to do all kinds of wacky things in different areas of science, for sure. NADINE ZIEMERT: Yeah, so there’s … a marine actinomycete bacterium. So they look kind of like fungi but also make these mycelia. They kind of look like … time. We have compared three very different soils in the area around Tübingen that is almost next to each other, to …