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… making discoveries, there is no like, you know, do your organic reaction and see if it smells like a pine tree. Like … that on that timescale of the earth that geography doesn’t matter as much. But, you know, there’s clearly some, you … mosaic theory. MARC: So how quick, and how much geography matters, is going to be a function of what the molecules are …

… so methane– biologically produced methane is produced from degradation of carbon in the absence of oxygen. But these … people doing this but we are very interested in looking at metabolic diversity and new metabolic niches to try to find new natural products. So …

… viruses impact the release of greenhouse gases from Arctic permafrost. But to see what they’re doing, he first needs …

… fundamental things, like, are we waking them up? Are they metabolically active and slowly ticking away at these … if we’ve woken them up or if they were slowly ticking away metabolically, way down under the ocean in Antarctica. Dan … chemistry in front of you. And then you have to decide what organic solvents, or what chemistry you can extract out of …

… of viruses and novel microbial lineages, and reconstruct metabolic properties encoded within those genomes. Our aim …

… well, thank you, Dan. I was actually trained as a synthetic organic chemist. My PhD is in synthesis. And I, of course, love organic molecules and get excited about chemistry. But at … the ocean and thought to myself, what’s going on with the organic chemistry of the ocean? And I was shocked to find …