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The exponential growth of DNA sequencing data, coupled with recent computational technology advances in management, … Science  356: 82-85 Ovchinnikov S. et al. (2017) Protein structure determination using metagenome sequence …

… 300+ students 800+ iNaturalist observations All MycoEd protocols, course materials and bioinformatics exercises are … Ed Fungal Genomics Education Project MycoCosm MycoEd group page Protocols, teaching materials and bioinformatics … into undergraduate teaching laboratories with minimal overhead (cost of media, ITS sequencing and …

… pathways. And today, we get to present our conversation with Marnix Medema , from Wageningen University in the … who inherited this room from her sister. And it was supposed to be her room now but, well, it became my office … the action of the microbiome because if you sterilize the soil, the protective effect is gone. You can transplant the …

… really happy today to be handing over our interview with Dr Elizabeth (or Betsy) Parkinson from Purdue … BETSY PARKINSON: Yeah. So, palladium catalyzed cross-coupling-- DAN: Got it. BETSY PARKINSON: --all that jazz. But … or online catalog, I guess. So we've also been able to get soils from Purdue campus itself and been able to actually …

… our second season of Natural Prodcast. This first episode up is another primer episode. These are episodes where … As always, you’ll find transcripts and show notes with links to lots of other resources, especially for these … disparate environments. There’s some marine. There’s some soil samples. There’s human gut samples. There’s lots and …

I really do want you all to hear this great conversation with Aaron Puri. He is an Assistant Professor from the … more about. He works with methylotrophs, which are a group of carbon-fixing bacteria that I would say are are still … could imagine if you have two colonies of bacteria in the soil or something and they’re competing with each other, if …

… metabolism – field, though, is real, and it’s a field with very real and truly amazing science with a long … Metabolites Science Program here at JGI. It’s a new group formed under the director who has also got a long … is a chemical compound called geosmin that’s produced by soil bacteria that live all over the place. So that smell of …

First and foremost, our interview this week is with Professor Brian Bachmann from Vanderbilt University’s … it was a very exciting event. And people in the research group would pore over it and argue about it and think about it … through these areas. And you can do– with a teaspoon of soil from outside, you maybe have to do a 10,000-fold …

… term you prefer. In this episode we’re going to finish up by talking about the modern, post-golden age history of … a new culture of a new bacteria that you pulled from the soil, maybe it’s, you know, we talked about sponges, go pull … drug discovery train moving, drug companies started working with some techniques referred to as “combinatorial …

… plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial activity teems … there is a striking division of labor between the two groups. Fungi are much more active in degrading plant matter, … Pinpointing the processes happening on and in forest soil also better enriches models of global carbon and …

… episodes, but it’s not terrible. I was able to clean it up quite a bit, and the conversation was so interesting that I wanted to include it. This is a conversation with Marc Chevrette. Marc is a postdoc in Jo Handelsman’s … for antibiotics and the microbes that make them is in the soil. There’s … uh… there’s an issue there though, in that …

… and we talk about an ongoing project I’ve been working with him on as an exploration into the secondary metabolism … So really happy to have you here today. There’s a couple of things I want to make sure that we talk about. You … many others, including Streptomycetes, which are common soil bacteria. DAN UDWARY: Yeah, we talk about them a lot …