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… by industry. When Director Nigel Mouncey joined the JGI in 2017, he brought with him 20 years of industry experience — and an opportunity to … like the JGI, through its Genesis Mission. Launched in 2025, the initiative aims to accelerate scientific …

… Europe. So if there are any kind of dated references to the news, that’s why. But it was a really fun conversation. And … ALISON TAKEMURA: And this is Paul Jensen in the early 2000s? Late 2000s? NADINE ZIEMERT: No, yeah, 2010. ALISON TAKEMURA: 2010, OK. You’re a young faculty. …

… never forced it on me, but we always had these scientific news magazines lying around at home. And I would just pick … had a high throughput screening platform where we’d look at 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 mutants a week. We started doing a whole bunch of … Metabolites Science Program . Since his arrival in 2017, Nigel has led a vision for the JGI that sees secondary …

… Natural Products conference, which took place last January 2020 in San Diego. San Diego, of course, is the “home turf” … pairs. It was not linear, like Streptomyces , but circular. 10% of the genome encoded natural product pathways. Dan: … Brad: Yeah, at that time, that was new, right? Like, my god 10% of the genome makes small molecules that have, you know, …

… FY 2026 DOE Metrics Sequencing Quarter Total Bases (Trillions) … % Goal   FY 2025 Total   700.0 1,144.186 163% 8,585 8,640 100.6% Q1 2025 175 190.304 109% 2,164 2,136 98.7% Q2 2025 175 152.100 87% 2,117 2,112 …

… the number was. But I want to say it was like less than 10. Since, you know, a recent decade.  DAN: I’m sure that’s … me to check her stat and she was absolutely correct. Since 2010 there have been eight new antibiotics added to the …

… the IP & Science arm of Thomson Reuters, has released their 2019 list of Highly Cited Researchers , which includes 10 affiliated with the JGI . The 2019 list focused on Highly … team established community gardens of switchgrass plants in 10 different field sites on a north-south gradient across …

… list available at Google Scholar. Dutkiewicz, Z. et al (2025) “ Proposal of Patescibacterium danicum gen. nov., sp. … ISME Communications , Volume 5 Issue 1. Wittmers, F. et al (2024) “ Non-photosynthetic lineages sibling to Cyanobacteria … Issue 22. Krinos, A.I., Mars Brisbin, M., Hu, S.K. et al. (2024) “ Missing microbial eukaryotes and misleading …

… of this is based on a really great paper that came out in 2020 where this is all explained in detail, so if you’d like … a bit embarrassed that we recorded this conversation about 10 months ago. I was pretty green at the time and had some … to my daughters– what did they think would be important in 100 years. Would natural products be important for …

… so there are– I hesitate to make a guess but maybe 50 to 100 different strains and they are in individual tubules.  … in the field, these glacial bacteria grow slow and it’s not 100% clear that we know what their biological activities … call this the needle in the Haystack. Because if we have 10,000 features which one do we look at because we are a …