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… we get to present our conversation with Marnix Medema , from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Marnix is … Alison Takemura: Marnix, It’s just from the biological perspective, like what was this bacterium, and why did your … “BiG” branded family I think. Marnix Medema: Yeah. It’s an ecosystem of software right? Dan Udwary: For sure. Yeah. …

… Fungi, with million species, are essential for ecosystem functioning — particularly in their roles … improve understanding of how fungi and algae contribute to ecosystems and industries. The program also explores … fungi and algae provide sustainable solutions for energy, agriculture, and the environment. …

… in the project by watching Amanda Hurley’s presentation from the 2019 JGI Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting.] … quickly built up a great body of work, with interesting perspectives on evolution of natural products biosynthesis. … we might be able to use against plant pathogens to use in agriculture and animal husbandry. So we’re looking for those …

… and complements DOE initiatives in CMM science. Enhancing agriculture: JGI users explore beneficial plant–microbe … pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. Food crops, feed, animal agriculture or aquaculture, and related production systems.  … of scope, as are marine-focused projects (more than 185 km from land). …

… The guest we have this week is Professor Cassandra Quave from Emory University, with joint appointments in the School … that are in the surroundings. And I feel like having that perspective on the way a scientist thinks about things and … with plants and how that affects overall forest health and ecosystem health. How cool would it be if you can use those …

… studied chemistry, because she switched her degree program from geography to chemistry. So we were both enrolled as … different people about. So tell us a little bit about your perspective on that kind of technique and why it’s valuable … how to access that and what impacts it in terms of the ecosystem and the environment. And I think that’s the …

… DAN: Welcome back to Natural Prodcast! This is episode 4! From here on out, for a while, we’re going to be presenting … in the field of natural products. So, it’s a departure from the previous episodes where Alison [Takemura] and I … Peace Corps, I decided I wanted to go into international agriculture. I had really changed my mind. I was thinking of …

… our interview this week is with Professor Brian Bachmann from Vanderbilt University’s Chemistry Department, where he … friends and colleagues, having both graduated with our PhDs from Craig Townsend’s lab at Johns Hopkins. Brian went on to … bruises. So yeah. So it was– the story is, let’s look at an ecosystem that has never been exploited. Because it’s been …

… talent for biosciences.  Adopt-a-Genome has: ~20 faculty from institutions across the country Efforts in ongoing … A primary purpose of this project is to bring educators from a broad range of disciplines up-to-speed with some of … skills necessary to extract meaningful biological insights from sequence data, employing IMG data and tools for …

… Prodcast. This week, Alison and I talk to Roger Linington, from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. … Gerwick’s lab and doing research in Panama through support from the ICBG training program, which stands for … a little bit about what you … What you saw in the different perspectives that people trained in North America brought to …

… lot going on, so I took a little break, but I’m hoping that from here I can get back to a regular schedule. I’m going to … his past in industry in developing natural products for agriculture, and his upcoming new role as the Society for … to learn more about JGI, hear some excellent talk from our users and from other invited guests, and we’ll also …

… conversation with Aaron Puri. He is an Assistant Professor from the Chemistry department at the University of Utah, so … gas. And oftentimes people’s mind go right to anaerobic ecosystems. But these are actually– so methane– biologically … behaviors that would not be advantageous from a fitness perspective for these individual cells to be transcribing …