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… then got funded to work for two years at the Max Planck for marine microbiology in Bremen, Germany. And I wanted to work … just been looking at like 16S taxonomic profiles of these communities looking at who is in there, but never like what … really high quality metagenome of the endosphere microbial communities for all the bacteria that are living inside the …
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… or environmental applications. We are interested in: characterizing novel enzymatic activities using phylogenomic …
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… quality. Yeah, for sure. NADINE ZIEMERT: Yeah, Dan… it’s a marine actinomycete bacterium. So they look kind of like … only grow in saltwater. So we’re thinking they’re obligate marine. There’s so far no species or no strains known that … what I always expected. Because we know from soil that communities change very much, that whenever it rains, then …
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… of microbial and fungal metabolism necessary to design communities, new strains, or enzymes to convert plant … of organics will not be considered. Projects targeting marine systems must clearly demonstrate relevance and … their associated microbiomes; fungi, microbes and microbial communities that can break down the lignin and cellulose in …
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… the community so far. But being here and then being at the Marine Natural Products meeting in Ventura where I got to … favorite bacterial community. For us, it’s these methane oxidizing bacterial communities that we like to look through as a lens, and …
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AF) have been computed for nearly 28,000 bacterial and archaeal genomes. By clustering genomes based on their …
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… areas that are less of a focus, I would say. For example, marine research is not so much of a focus within BER … we have projects that are algal related or that are marine related, and so we can do some projects that are … appropriate than others. We heard, for example, that the marine env is specifically not of general interest to DOE or …
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… driving virus:host dynamics in environmental microbial communities. This involves both experimental and …
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… expand beyond this model system by identifying phages and characterizing this multipartite phenomenon in additional …
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… products. So in Brad’s lab, I worked on identifying and characterizing haloperoxidases from bacteria. And with … just not enough time and money. I mean, we have a huge marine fungal project in collaboration with Bill Fenical at Scripps. So we’re looking at biosynthesis of marine fungal metabolites. We’re also looking– now we’re …
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… activities. Aside from being a key component of the marine food web base, they also feature in many nutrient … University of California, Berkeley is interested in better characterizing the role endosymbiotic bacteria play on … By sequencing the millet rhizosphere and endosphere communities both with and without the shrub’s presence, …
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… has to have a story. And it can be looking for drugs from marine organisms, in which case you get to go to exotic … new ecosystems, we find new chemistry. It worked in the marine ecosystems and marine actinomycetes and cyanobacteria. And we thought we …
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