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… kept looking for open jobs that said, we want a chemist to study the ocean. And I didn’t find a single job … powerful people. These were people that really controlled microbial drug discovery. And a guy like me, with no … to study bacteria, fungi, archaea, the whole range of microbial life. So, we just started out. And we started …

… including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental microbial pathogens, and associated viruses that all … how plants self-organize, influence, and are influenced by microbial partners. We use a variety of genomics-powered tools to study this complexity, including single-cell and spatial …

… know nothing about biology. Biology hates us. It’s a little dark, but. [laughs] DAN UDWARY: Yep. ALISON TAKEMURA: It’s … of the IMG data portal , which is a larger portal for microbial genomics. IMG stands for Integrated Microbial … can be applied to secondary metabolism almost always, no matter what that is. Almost always. How do people do that? I …

Canada. I just got back from a conference in Canada on antimicrobial resistance sponsored by the Garner foundation. And … that on that timescale of the earth that geography doesn’t matter as much. But, you know, there’s clearly some, you … so I’m you know, I’m a little bit familiar coming from a microbial ecology background myself, but not to this degree. …

… physical separation of a biologically relevant unit from a microbial community, such as a microcolony, microbial aggregate, or a specific subset of free-living … sample, annotation ( IMG/M ), binning Depends on project Microbial Minimal Draft, Isolate Draft quality microbial …

ALISON TAKEMURA: So Nadine, what got you interested in studying natural products? NADINE ZIEMERT: Like almost … really then helps you to get back to, oh, why am I actually studying that question? DAN UDWARY: We know each other I … that this was a perfect fit for what I wanted to do. Also studying evolution and the role of the secondary …

So like, as an undergraduate, I was like, no, I’m going to study architecture. I like making things and designing … Alison: What’s a favorite fun story you have about studying these different kinds of organisms, or one … then the organisms all around us or the, you know, the bio matter that’s around us now? Brad: Yeah, I mean, petroleum …