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… of Natural Prodcast. This week, Alison and I talk to Roger Linington, from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, … the first place? ROGER:  So I was originally trained in the UK, I did my undergraduate degree at University of Leeds. … natural products science as a field, we have arguably been studying microbial natural products in an ordered way for …

… of natural products, Professor Bill Fenical from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. Bill is a pioneer … kept looking for open jobs that said, we want a chemist to study the ocean. And I didn’t find a single job … are many others, including Streptomycetes, which are common soil bacteria. DAN UDWARY: Yeah, we talk about them a lot …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … the end, we took an approach that was kind of a simplified metagenome sequencing approach to pick this system apart.  … crack this case, then that would open up our field to other study. And so it was kind of an early example, to try to …

… in Florida to discuss a JGI pilot project involving soil sampling in the Florida Everglades to help train the … Jonathan’s email request reached  Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh , the Metagenome Program Head at the  U.S. Department of Energy … do an environmental microbial community (metagenomic) soil study in an untouched region of the Everglades, the …

… and postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses influence the flow of carbon in permafrost.  …

… and characterization of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. We use multi-omics … mSystems. 5 (3) Schulz et al. (2018) Hidden diversity of soil giant viruses. Nature Communications. 9 (1), 1-9 Schulz …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US. .Department of Energy Joint Genome … for antibiotics and the microbes that make them is in the soil. There’s … uh… there’s an issue there though, in that … get produced changes in response to different selective pressures. It’s really hard to assay because oftentimes we …

See below for examples of successful Letters of Intent to our Community Science Program Large-Scale Call, as … … Adaptive strategies in a cosmopolitan and abundant soil bacterium: genetic microdiversity or core metabolic flexibility? … Microbial contributions to soil carbon storage during simulated range shifts of …

Hey Marcy!  ALISON: Hey Marcy?  MARCY: Hello. How’s it going?  DAN: Good. How are you?  MARCY: Am fine. I live in a … now?  MARCY: Sure. So my lab has really converged on the study of host-microbe chemistry. And the interactions– As … Marcy. So I was wondering, how did you get interested in studying natural products?  MARCY: That is a great question …

… management and strategic objectives of the microbial and metagenome programs and report back to them. The Committee …

… by the Biological and Environmental Research program, the Joint Genome Institute provides advanced genomic capabilities, … to contaminants such as heavy metals or radionuclides in soils, freshwater, coastal sediments (coastal here defined  …

As an Integrative Genome Science User Facility, the JGI plays a leadership role in enabling the frontiers of research related to DOE’s … the boundaries of the Plant, Fungal, Algal, Microbial, Metagenome, Metabolomics, Secondary Metabolites, and DNA …