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… Cochliobulis heterostrophis . This is a very well known fungus because it produces a secondary metabolite or natural … might get you a little confused as to which species the fungus actually belongs to. I don’t know. It’s really … messages, or little chemicals to inhibit, usually, the growth of the other microbe. They really are paired. And …

… 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 different species. But you …

… we talked about sponges, go pull a sponge or extract some tree bark. And so you’re just taking something, you’re … using biological systems. You know, if we had had the fungus that was making the Taxol rather than the tree – if we had found that first – it would have been much …

… the molecular level. Integrating genomics with metabolomics fuels the discovery  of novel metabolites, genes, and …

… same kind of way, where we had– aflatoxin is produced by a fungus called Aspergillus . We were mostly working in … by Super Smash Brothers. Because I know that that’s a very popular Nintendo game. And I just hear a lot of friends, …

… The US Department of Energy’s favorite tree is poplar. They’re the fastest growing trees in the Northern Hemisphere, making them tantalizing …

… 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 … on structural biology of these compounds. And they saw the tree, and I explained to them how I would interpret it. And … that would happen then!” And like, oh, you see that in my tree? And so it’s just one example of how you can see the …

… of a particular part of the Streptomyces phylogenomic tree, then you will be in a position to say, this group of … that will actually protect the fungal farms from other fungus that want to take advantage of that resource. So in … we have a database that we sorted out on a phylogenomic tree, such that we can really say what Dan was saying: …

… These molecules, which are not essential for fundamental growth, provide critical advantages to the organisms … their potential applications in the bioeconomy including biofuels, biochemicals and sustainable agriculture. …

… A fungus relies on bacteria to regulate key components of its … have evolved from a parasitic interaction with their soil fungus host, Rhizopus microsporus . Researchers found that … fungi are potential sustainable sources of alternative fuels, so understanding fungal-bacterial relationships can …

… to Dr. Blaby-Haas to make sure that we have the particular growth chambers you would need to perform a specific experiment. The Molecular Foundry has standard growth chambers as well as incubators for growing anaerobes …