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Secondary Metabolites Program focuses on the exploration of secondary metabolites across bacteria, fungi, algae and … advantages to the organisms producing them, and are often involved in defense, nutrient acquisition and … experimental approaches to explore the synthesis and function of these biologically significant compounds. By …

… … DAN: Hey, everybody. Welcome back for another episode of Natural Prodcast. Right now I’m working on this the … He works with methylotrophs, which are a group of carbon-fixing bacteria that I would say are are still fairly … of molecules can be thought of as signals or have other functions depending on their concentration and their …

Welcome back to Natural Prodcast. This continues the series of interviews we recorded at the Society for Industrial … sentence. I think that sometimes, we think about enzyme function is we think about the natural function versus can we take this enzyme that nature has …

… for you here today. We got the opportunity to talk to one of the real legends of natural products, Professor Bill … I think you’re right. I mean, that too was an issue. What function, what utility, what kind of applications might … And we started to gather evidence that truly showed the importance of the molecules in ecology. And that took …

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… … DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural Prodcast– a … At the end of the day, all the content produced by microbes the result of millions of years of evolution. And … by bacterial or fungal metabolism by microbes, will have a functional role. We started from that. Evolution doesn’t …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a … it turns out, you know, high CO2. Turns out you know, when nitrogen levels change in the ocean, you begin to see those … entities. So, you know, we’re often limited by the native function of enzymes and what they’re able to produce, you …

… on genomic science projects that address sustainable biofuel and bioproducts production, leveraging systems-based approaches to unravel functional capabilities of plants, microbes and microbial communities, global carbon and …

… research is focused on the discovery and characterization of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. We use … We then investigate the coding potential to find novel functions that may impact microbiome structure and …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US. .Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a … and wondering what those … what those were and how they function. So I worked on a team at the Broad that was looking to develop new methods for DNA sequencing of microbes. And what kept breaking our methods was these damn …

The mission of the Joint Genome Institute is to serve the scientific community as a user facility pioneering functional genomics to solve the most relevant bioenergy and … systems biology data and tools to help predict biological function.   To jointly support these missions, and to expand …

Microbes drive critical ecosystem functions and affect … group aims at improving our collective understanding of ecological and evolutionary parameters driving virus:host …