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… postdoc Panama as part of the international cooperative biodiversity group (ICBG) based in Panama and was dual there … they don’t transfer a lot of DNA back and forth, especially across species. And so then there isn’t horizontal transfer … on increasing computational skills among biologists JGI CSP Proposal: Metagenomic mining of natural product …

… be back in a room with you, Dan. And to be actually sitting across the table from you.  DAN: Absolutely. It’s been a … NIGEL MOUNCEY: Yeah, so we put out a strategic plan in 2018. And in building that plan, we thought about secondary … A few examples of those are obviously expanding the diversity of known secondary metabolites and their …

… fundamental things, like, are we waking them up? Are they metabolically active and slowly ticking away at these … then, chemistry-wise, they’re the stars, right? Chemical diversity, the sheer number of chemicals they produce, their … in Antarctica on a ship. Yeah, so I went to Antarctica in 2018 as a participant in Homeward Bound 2, last year as …

… elements. Beyond exploring and characterizing microbial diversity, work in the Metagenome Program uses several … experimental approaches to assess microbial activity across ecosystems.  By studying microbial communities and … research provides insights into microbial diversity and metabolic potential, with implications for energy …

But we’re not just here to talk about us. We have a great person to talk to tonight. We have Nadine Ziemert from … see. So it doesn’t seem to be a correlation between biodiversity in taxa and biodiversity in secondary metabolites. So stuff like that, I …

… of viruses and novel microbial lineages, and reconstruct metabolic properties encoded within those genomes. Our aim is to more fully capture microbial and viral diversity, leading to a better understanding of microbial … uncovers gaps in amplicon-based detection of microbial diversity . Nature Microbiology , 15032. …

Schulz, C Abergel, T Woyke (2022) Giant virus biology and diversity in the era of genome-resolved metagenomics. Nature … 20 (5), 255-255 Schulz et al. (2020) Giant virus diversity and host interactions through global metagenomics. … binning of a giant virus. mSystems. 5 (3) Schulz et al. (2018) Hidden diversity of soil giant viruses. Nature …

The Fungal & Algal Program explores the vast diversity of fungi and algae to unlock their potential for … The program’s fungal genomics research explores new metabolic processes and enzymes that can be applied in … is a five-year project to sequence 1000 fungal genomes from across the Fungal Tree of Life, from an international …

… of challenges that usually lead to surprises and really great discoveries! And Eric’s done an awesome job, in that … with animal metabolism itself, and it’s really amazing what diversity there is in animals. I think, even despite the … backbones, and so that’s our specialty. That’s where most diversity of life on earth is located. ALISON:  Have you …

… the answer would be that there’s actually a great deal of diversity within these methanotrophs for example, that are … me in the woods then. [LAUGHTER] JACKIE: So we’re kind of across — covered quite a few different topics. And so right … people doing this but we are very interested in looking at metabolic diversity and new metabolic niches to try to find …

Two fanatic PhD students. Alison Takemura: It sounds great. Yeah, it sounds like it was really needed at that … Did the global analysis of biosynthetic gene clusters across, well, at that time, all genomes that were out there. … you to get a bird’s-eye perspective on the biosynthetic diversity element of these genomes. And you see how they’re– …

… and where we are today. After that, we have lots of great conversations that we’ve already recorded with some … the context for their work is.  ALISON: Cool. That sounds great. I’m so glad that you invited me to have this … be so mind bending and that we might just kind of happen across them in our food. That’s crazy!  DAN: Yeah, just like …