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With collaborative user projects, the JGI’s Plant Program delves into the natural world’s potential to address global … technologies and data-driven methods, the program equips researchers worldwide to tackle challenges in energy, …

… in the Woyke laboratory focuses on the utility of single-cell methods to access genetic material of uncultivated taxa … critical to serve as phylogenetic anchors for metagenomes studies.  While uncovering the metabolic potential of … Therapeutics , Cambridge, MA Jessica Jarett: Computational Biologist, AnimalBiome Asaf Levy: Assistant Professor, …

… grants with people in other countries. And it became quite clear that this was an important field evolving, not … was not known, amazing! Everybody, all the terrestrial microbiologists, said, “there’s nothing new in the ocean. … knowledge of the direction the field has taken:  Chemical studies of marine bacteria: developing a new resource Bill …

… things that we do is work with this really great group of biologists that know what they’re doing much better than I … or thinking about something I can kind of see like the squid and the bacteria and how the chemistry is going back and … you would think. Anything that could be swimming in the ocean right?  ALISON: Follow up question: Does the organ …

The Plant Program Advisory Committee is chartered to offer advice, guidance and counsel on the effective management and strategic objectives of the plant program. The committee serves as the program's key …

And it turns out that a lot of natural products are built up from amino acids, so they’re secondary metabolite … list of goals in life: on that list are being a marine biologist and being a chemist, and it’s actually quite hard … interesting. He was interested to know how animals in the ocean use chemistry to interact and it went from there.  …

… the special, natural chemical compounds that you find in plants, fungi and bacteria, basically all living things. … studied microbial ecology. I studied Vibrio species in the ocean, so heterotrophic bacteria. Now, we didn’t get into secondary metabolites really in my studies. So this is, is an area that was adjacent to what I …

Plants are complex organisms that harbor a fantastic diversity of cell types and associated organisms, including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental …

… curator there, with a broad range of experimental work on plants for drug discovery in antibiotics, anticancer, and … of traditional medicines and medicinal plants with the pursuit of modern drug discovery. It’s also the kind of book we … plant natural products is rife with really poorly designed studies. We have studies where people write about work on …

… polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. … — not prokaryotes,” said Thomas Mock, marine microbiologist at the University of East Anglia (UEA, UK) and … study. “Prokaryotes are not capable of producing all the juicy proteins and lipids that eukaryotes are.” But according …

Craig – but forming those concepts of what natural product studies look like. And so, I enjoyed your talk today. It was … ag[riculture] and I really liked – I became interested in plant disease in part because of what happened in my Peace … say, “oh, Nancy, you know what, your career is going to be ruined. If you stick with fungi, you’re just not going to get …

Brad Moore, UC San Diego and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. (Courtesy of B. Moore) DAN: This is the second … And Brad and I, Alison, have known each other for quite a while because Brad was my postdoctoral advisor.  … chemicals that are coming out of organisms, whether it be a plant or from the bottom of the ocean, from a sponge, or a …