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DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … when we start talking to people who specialize in that area. In this primer, we talk about my favorite topic … medicines, but also things that are important in their own environments. Like, bacteria make antibiotics in order to …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US. .Department of Energy Joint Genome … the very first episode we recorded. You’ll probably notice that the audio quality isn’t as good as what you’ll hear in … was looking to develop new methods for DNA sequencing of microbes. And what kept breaking our methods was these damn …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … pathways. Not every organism, at least, has something that’s maybe obvious or notable. We are still in – not an … we really recognize, right?  ALISON: And I tend to think of microbes as being able to secrete a lot more things than …

The JGI’s Microbial Program focuses on using cutting-edge sequencing, annotation and analysis … techniques to explore the vast and diverse world of microbes. Studying bacteria and archaea, including those … large-scale genomic data to advance microbial research that drives sustainable solutions in energy, agriculture and …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … And we talk a lot about some of the technical challenges to that, most of which seem to be history.   I should mention … use natural products necessarily. Fungi are large. They’re microbes, but they’re large microbes. And they have all …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … he makes fun of me a lot, though I actually edited most of that out. But anyway, here’s our conversation with one of my … systems. No one was, at that time, really working with microbes from the ocean. So I felt there was a wonderful …

Overview The JGI provides sequencing, synthesis, and targeted metabolomics support for … general feasibility prior to submitting a BER proposal that includes a JGI request.  Proposals whose scope was not … for sequencing, as long as they have a scientific question that is relevant to DOE missions.  Learn more about this …

Our lab is using mass spectrometry based metabolite profiling to provide direct biochemical datasets to improve our … and dynamic metabolite networks of environmental microbes and how they transform their environment. Research …

UDWARY: It’s been a while, but Natural Prodcast is back again for another round of episodes. If you stick around for … all the way to the end, then you’ve probably heard me say that the Joint Genome Institute is a “Department of Energy … where smaller proposals may be a fit. Still not 20 many microbes. We still we work in plates, right? We’re a high …

… is Professor Cassandra Quave from Emory University, with joint appointments in the School of Medicine and College of … Usually when we do these interviews, most of the people that I think we’ve talked to so far I either know … and take soil and discover a new important drug from the microbes in that soil, there are now international …

Hey, Alison Takemura: Hey, Dan. Dan Udwary: Today we’re going to talk to Kate Duncan. And Kate is– I should ask, you … goodness. I mean, if you were to find my scientific papers, that would be Katherine. Dan Udwary: Right. Kate Duncan: But … what’s important in terms of the chemistry produced by microbes. And by what’s important, I mean, like, where …

… … DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … product reports on the evolution of genome mining and microbes with Mohammad Alanjary and Tilmann Weber to be a really valuable piece that shaped my thoughts about the history of genome mining …