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… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … on Aflatoxin biosynthesis while he was a postdoc in Craig Townsend’s lab at Johns Hopkins, where I was a … is a liver toxin when humans accidentally eat it, but it has a really fun and interesting biosynthetic pathway, and …

The IMG group owns and maintains integral components of JGI’s production workflow, … Developing state-of-the-art data processing and analysis pipelines for the interpretation of microbiome omics data … to nearly 326 genomes. Through the analysis of cliques, it has also become possible to identify speciation events …

For accepted proposals, sequencing, synthesis, metabolomics and analysis will be paid for … FICUS CSP Large Scale CSP New Investigator CSP Functional Genomics Status CLOSED CLOSED ONGOING ONGOING Who Should … projects that call for expansive sequencing, synthetic biology and metabolomics capabilities …

… … Dan Udwary: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … which is using DNA sequence to identify and interpret biosynthetic, secondary metabolism pathways. And today, we get … a specific type of biosynthetic gene cluster. And antiSMASH has a library of those kinds of signature domains and it …

Overview The JGI provides sequencing, synthesis, and targeted metabolomics support for … research in the development of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels, advancing the federal initiative that seeks to … which are more easily converted to fuels. This Center also has a major focus on sustainability, examining the …

… of Natural Prodcast. This week, Alison and I talk to Roger Linington, from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, … the chemical diversity and chemical utility that nature has to offer us. I found this conversation really inspiring, … of Leeds. And there the focus was very much on sort of synthetic organic chemistry and sort of classical divisions …

Duncan: So they’re also incredibly adaptable. I think there has been some examples of real successes in that area in … have a couple of projects in the lab that also work in microalgae as well. So it’s not just actinobacteria that we work … as well. A lot of them have looked at applications like biofuels. Dan Udwary: Sure. Kate Duncan: But from a natural …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … going to be talking about here. JGI, as an institution has recognized how important natural products are to … in graduate school. I joined the lab of Professor Craig Townsend at Johns Hopkins University. He does …

… to find earlier in the feed, the secondary metabolism field has been dominated for … well, as long as I can remember, by … I started in fungal natural products – I did my Ph.D. with Craig Townsend and worked on aflatoxin biosynthesis, … that’s of the sort that people are looking for, for biofuel production. We’ll see how that goes.    ALISON: Is …

… of natural products, Professor Bill Fenical from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. Bill is a pioneer … Yeah, well, thank you, Dan. I was actually trained as a synthetic organic chemist. My PhD is in synthesis. And I, of … on. So now we have The Journal of Chemical Ecology that has a marine component. And really the community out there …

… genomics research and to help them translate genomic information into biological function.  The emphasis is on projects leveraging JGI’s DNA synthesis and … the general review process or find details on the internal synthetic biology review process .  … Proposers are …

The focus of this group, in recent years, has been to bring generalizable technologies to bacteria, yeasts and algae previously with little to no genetic tools enabling …