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… of energy and nutrient exchange, as well as microbial and plant responses to environmental changes. With advanced mass … processes, development of high performance plants and microbes, and understanding microbiome interactions. The  insights derived are crucial for …

… chemicals that are coming out of organisms, whether it be a plant or from the bottom of the ocean, from a sponge, or a … you looked under provide a new chemical entity, and the area of synthesis, the area of discovery, was just budding … rage. So, we’re collaborating with a group at the Monterey Bay Research Aquarium, through this new NOAA grant, to be …

… 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– …

… the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) commit to Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s (Berkeley … In working toward a shared vision with members of the JGI advisory committees, we welcome and encourage openness, … solutions to the world—and to effectively fulfill the JGI’s mission, we recognize success is dependent on earning …

The JGI mural on the 3rd floor of the Integrative Genomics Building whimsically references dozens of iconic JGI contributions to advancing the frontiers of … below to learn about the science depicted. The two-story JGI mural was commissioned for the JGI’s 25th anniversary …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… the direction of programs and initatives to enhance the JGI’s preeminence as a national resource. Members report to the JGI Director. …

… on high-risk/high-payoff proposals within the focused topic areas that can be completed on an accelerated timeline as … be paid for by the Department of Energy’s funding of the JGI. There is no cost to the user and no granting of funds. … the spatial, temporal, taxonomic (environmental, microbial, plants, invertebrate, and vertebrate), and thematic scope of …

… 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 …