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… angry with one another, and trying to unpack all of those interactions. You know, that’s what gets me excited. That’s … didn’t make it. DAN: What were you head of, I can’t remember. MARC: Experimental Genomics. But if you have me … a system. It’s relatively simple. So there’s three members, there’s a Bacillus , there’s a flavobacterium, and …

… drafted them.  … Elucidating Sphagnum microbiome genetic interactions for improved growth at elevated temperatures … … networks governing terpenoid-mediated plant environment interactions to enable advanced bioenergy crops … … moisture treatments … Metabolic processes and trophic interactions in Antarctic cryptoendolithic communities … CSP …

It’s also the kind of book we can hand off to family members and friends as a way to introduce them to the field. … better could be perhaps to take deeper looks at the interactions that organisms have, not just within the same … actually cross kingdom. So I’m thinking about what are the interactions that bacteria have with plants, what’s going on …

… and then ultimately settled there as well, as a faculty member. But we were all together. There was even a degree … that they needed to consider chemical impact on species interactions, communication, that kind of thing. But … right here at the UC San Diego Cancer Center. So, I’m a member of that center. So, I know a little bit what’s going …

… field has been dominated for … well, as long as I can remember, by bacterial research.  So it was great to hear her … other microbes? So it’s maybe the culture. I’m a faculty member in two departments at [the University of … the secondary metabolome, of fungi in inter-Kingdom interactions. So fungi, bacteria and their host. And I think …

… was challenged? NADINE ZIEMERT: Good question. I don’t remember from my PhD. Too long ago. But I just had an example … have a certain community, there’s usually just one or two members within that community that might make a secondary … activity. So you would think that if there’s just one member in a big community that makes a strong antibiotic, …

… and industries. The program also explores microeukaryotic members of microbial communities, cataloging gene markers, …

… the sponges talk to each other? ERIC:   He was looking at interactions between sponges and other organisms. So one of … how these pieces fit together. And if we can design those interactions, I think we’ll be a lot better at rationally …

… different microbes. And I think the important thing to remember is that, thanks to genomics, we now know that it is … symbiont, for example, of an ant. So these are very stable interactions that have been evolving for 300 million years, … connections between the producing organism and strong interactions and the host or even in tripartite systems. So, …

… converged on the study of host-microbe chemistry. And the interactions– As much as we incorporate loads of different … in an environment in a place that it has stress and/or interactions with other bacteria or other hosts or just … if it were under the stressors and the environmental interactions that it has in the environment. And so in order …

And Tucson was a magical place for me as a starting faculty member. To start a lab. You know, all of my training in grad … curiosity and interest are. And, so, as a starting faculty member, I realized that this field of biosynthesis was … project I thought. Alison: And for those of us who don’t remember every line of Dan’s CV, just remind us, what was that …