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… was looking to develop new methods for DNA sequencing of microbes. And what kept breaking our methods was these damn … for antibiotics and the microbes that make them is in the soil. There’s … uh… there’s an issue there though, in that … to go in the next couple years. And hopefully, some of the insights that we glean from that will be broadly applicable …
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Science Program, characterize organisms (plants and microbes) relevant to the DOE science mission areas of … to understand biogenic contributions to the global nutrient cycles, as well as atmospheric particle formation and … to contaminants such as heavy metals or radionuclides in soils, freshwater, coastal sediments (coastal here defined …
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… variety of experimental samples, including organisms (e.g. microbes, fungi, plant), media in which they grow, as well as different types of environments (e.g. soil, lake). A wide range of metabolites are identified …
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… we really recognize, right? ALISON: And I tend to think of microbes as being able to secrete a lot more things than … But… DAN: Yeah, there are a lot of ways to put together carbon molecules. Chemistry is pretty limitless. All right, … products because they’re easy to find. They grow in the soil. These are the same guys that produce geosmin. And so …
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… advantages for farmers concerned with improving sustainable soil management practices. … In June 2020, the Department of … JGI and LanzaTech, a Skokie, Illinois-based company that recycles carbon emissions to make fuels and chemicals, improving air …
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… means to begin filling this gap. A primary goal is to get insights into the coding potential of candidate phyla to … Stepanauskas R., Rubin E.M., Hugenholtz P. & Woyke T . Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of … Bergin C., Ruehland C., Rubin E.M. & Dubilier, N. Symbiosis insights through metagenomic analysis of a microbial …
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… approaches to unravel functional capabilities of plants, microbes and microbial communities, global carbon and nutrient cycling, and biogeochemistry — questions …
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… and work within the DOE emission space of bioenergy, carbon cycling, biogeochemistry, bioproducts. So we cannot … where smaller proposals may be a fit. Still not 20 many microbes. We still we work in plates, right? We’re a high … and coastal. But we’ve kind of shied away from the ocean. Microbes. We’ve done those in the past, but the DOE mission …
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… was adjacent to what I worked on, but my experience of how microbes are interacting in the environment like, like my … Institution of Oceanography. He got me into genomics of microbes, specifically of some that lived in the ocean and … is a chemical compound called geosmin that’s produced by soil bacteria that live all over the place. So that smell of …
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… sequence analysis to recover the genomes of uncultivated microbes. We also apply labeling strategies that allow us to select specific uncultivated microbes for sequencing based on their level of metabolic … activity (BONCAT+FACS). To provide additional functional insights into microbial genomes, the JGI now uses laser …
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At the end of the day, all the content produced by microbes the result of millions of years of evolution. And … metabolite, produced by bacterial or fungal metabolism by microbes, will have a functional role. We started from that. … For example, lipids– doesn’t matter if it has one extra carbon or two or one less, at the end of the day, it’s …
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