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… from candidate phyla, major branches in the phylogenetic tree without cultivated representatives. The “Great Plate-Count … valuable reference genomes in under-populated areas of the tree of life, as reference genomes are critical to serve as …

The US Department of Energy’s favorite tree is poplar. They’re the fastest growing trees in the … remarkable genetic secrets that bring us closer to making poplar an economical and sustainable source of energy and …

… 2 of our “primer” episode, so if you ended up here somehow without having listened to the first part, you might be a … mean, you might be producing things at different stages of growth or different signals from the environment might cause … blob – sort of overexposed – but this this white blob is a fungus called Penicillium . Now called Penicillium . And so …

… into practical applications, including sustainable biofuels, biomaterials, natural products, and environmental … roles associated with plants (mycorrhizae, endophytes, growth promoters, or pathogens) and as the most efficient … to sequence 1000 fungal genomes from across the Fungal Tree of Life, from an international research team in …

… out every two weeks. This time, we’ve got a great interview with Ben Shen, from the Scripps Research Institute in … taxol, for example. If you say isolate compound from the trees – if you’re cutting the trees, it takes years to … to different species.  DAN: Yeah, yeah.  BEN: And then for fungus, even more. And of the fungus, we have more than 2600 …

… learning to identify new divergent lineages and expand the Tree of Life. We then investigate the coding potential to … et al. (2017) Towards a balanced view of the bacterial tree of life. Microbiome. 5 (1), 1-6 Schulz et al. (2017) Giant viruses with an expanded complement of translation system …

… of small molecules in biological systems, linking them with genomic data to enhance our understanding of genome … and ecosystems at the molecular level. Integrating genomics with metabolomics fuels the discovery  of novel metabolites, genes, and …

… episode 12 of Natural Prodcast. And it’s our conversation with Nadine Ziemert from the University of Tübingen in … at some topic that I’m working with about now. I made a tree of different compounds, and I’d looked at it from an … And then I actually got into it. I learned programming. I looked at all these things on my computer, and I …

… we talked about sponges, go pull a sponge or extract some tree bark. And so you’re just taking something, you’re … drug discovery train moving, drug companies started working with some techniques referred to as “combinatorial … using biological systems. You know, if we had had the fungus that was making the Taxol rather than the tree – if …