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… the sponges talk to each other? ERIC:   He was looking at interactions between sponges and other organisms. So one of … actually do have interesting chemistry, but it’s not an area that we work on. We’ve worked almost exclusively with … transcriptomics, metabolomics, and natural products in plants, fungi, and microorganisms. If you want to …

Microbes drive critical ecosystem functions and affect … of molecular mechanisms involved in virus:host interaction and host cell take-over by viruses, and attempts … (MIUViG).  Nature Biotech .  37 , 29–37 Roux S, et al. (2016) Ecogenomics and potential biogeochemical impacts of …

Vegas, and the Desert Research Institute, the 2025 NeLLi Symposium delves into the most recent expansions of the Tree … Masaru Nobu JAMSTEC Vivek Natarajan Google Olga Zhaxybayeva Dartmouth University … Metagenomic and single-cell … lineages will provide new cornerstones for research in the areas of bioenergy and biomedicine, as well as …

… when we start talking to people who specialize in that area. In this primer, we talk about my favorite topic in, … in order to challenge or kill off competition, right? And plants do the same sorts of things. And then, bacteria often … RiPPs. That sort of holds up with what we have seen in the past with people that have done metagenomic studies on, say, …

The Plant Program Advisory Committee is chartered to offer … on the effective management and strategic objectives of the plant program. The committee serves as the program's key …

… techniques to explore the vast and diverse world of microbes. Studying bacteria and archaea, including those … of terrestrial biogeochemical cycling and inter-organismal interactions. These insights are crucial for addressing key … The program also studies giant viruses. Key research areas include terrestrial biogeochemical cycling and …

… story in natural products? How did you get started in this area? BILL FENICAL: Yeah, well, thank you, Dan. I was … Northern California. And we’d go down to Monterey, in the Bay Area, and go diving there. So, this was always in my … polysaccharides. We cultured things with fish meal, seaweed paste. I mean, we tried really hard to think about what …

… drop your burrito and it drifts to the bottom of Mission Bay or something like that. And let’s say it eventually ends … Yeah. Yeah. One of the things that I have observed in the past is that it seems like a lot of natural products are … guess is there something really fun that you want to– a new area of your lab is exploring? AARON PURI: Yeah. Thanks. So– …

… and ergot alkaloids come from fungi, and Taxol from plants. Plants, fungi, bacteria, archaea, they all have … we really recognize, right?  ALISON: And I tend to think of microbes as being able to secrete a lot more things than … an example. One of the organisms that I studied in the past were a group of bacteria called the Frankia . And so …

… work, and now her research in Utah touches on many areas of natural products biosynthesis and drug discovery. … them on a regular basis. So they are full of terrestrial microbes. So they’re open ecosystems. They’re not sealed off … in the cave project just now switching from intermicrobial interactions, studying intermicrobial interactions by …

… now there are six ADCs that have been FDA approved over the past two decades, and, remarkably, of the six, two of them … ALISON: Right. Okay. Okay. Thank you. BEN: So in the area of ADC, right, if you want to be thinking about natural … So, you may know the so-called Nagoya protocol, which prevents taking bio-resources from the native countries. So …

… things, and what we’re hoping to accomplish at JGI in this area. If this series of podcast episodes has sparked your … for a long time by many, many bacteria – and fungi and plants. And so that’s the power and the promise of, I guess, … they think the field needs and what they’ve done in the past and maybe what JGI can do to help drive secondary …