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… With collaborative user projects, the JGI’s Plant Program delves into the natural world’s … to current problems facing humanity. A major focus are biofuel feedstock species and plant-microbe interactions, … a plant based bioeconomy where plants are a major source of chemical production and contribute to a healthier planet …

… Research in the Woyke laboratory focuses on the utility of single-cell methods to access genetic material of uncultivated taxa of interest. One such effort is … Anomaly” first described by Stanley and Konopa in 1985, which highlights our skewed understanding of microbial …

… and head of the Secondary Metabolites Science Program at JGI, and also my boss, Nigel Mouncey. I got him on to talk … was mucking around with Bacillus spores for a long time for food spoilage kind of testing, applications. And that’s … build on those to try and increase titer and rate and drive down the cost of producing riboflavin at scale.  DAN: …

… Microbes drive critical ecosystem functions and affect global … group aims at improving our collective understanding of ecological and evolutionary parameters driving virus:host … involves both experimental and computational exploration of uncultivated viral diversity, characterization of …

… for the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI. JGI is a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … and that we might just kind of happen across them in our food. That’s crazy!  DAN: Yeah, just like the geosmin – … to us and understanding all of that I think is what really drives me to understand what’s going on with natural …

…   The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is a national user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The JGI consists of 225 researchers and support staff in the … The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is a high-throughput AI-centric genomic science user …

… most secondary metabolism pathways now, but there’s still almost certainly unusual things that we don’t recognize, … or secondary metabolism, has been … not dominated by, but driven by drug discovery. We know that many natural product … have that goal. That’s not as much our goal here at the JGI – we are not a medicinally focused organization. And so, …

… Below is a brief description of the process needed to prepare and ship samples for sequencing by the JGI.  Additionally it includes instructions on accessing … have any questions, please contact your Project Manager or jgi[email protected] . … 1) Review JGI sample QC requirements and protocols Obtaining DNA and …

… school. And one of the things that I noticed is all the food that the students got was coming from other countries, … when I first started out the natural product community was almost 100% bacterial. Only people working in mycotoxins … actually, everything is funding, right, isn’t it? I thank JGI for sequencing a lot of fungi. But the thing with them – …

… state of things, and what we’re hoping to accomplish at JGI in this area. If this series of podcast episodes has … be the software after it’s been installed on your hard drive. And then the protein would be the software actually … have been carried through exactly the way it was, which it almost certainly hasn’t, then we’ve – we have no ability to …

… describe. [ Go here to learn more about Tiny Earth and the JGI’s role in the project by watching Amanda Hurley’s … I met him when we worked together at the late great Warp Drive Bio, a biotech startup where we did genome mining … the pathogen comes along. So this pathogen preys on the food source for the ants. And the ants, they have a symbiont …

… uses advanced sequencing technologies to decode the genomes of microbes in their natural environments. This work … contribute to ecosystem functions, the Program helps drive innovations that could advance our understanding of Earth’s ecosystems. … The insights from this work have the potential to drive innovations in energy, environmental sustainability, …