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ALISON TAKEMURA: I know that it’s looking in the genome for genetic elements of interest, you know, something like … want to explain that to someone who doesn’t know much about genetics or anything else, science wise maybe, what genome … isn’t itself medicine, but the coding within the DNA codes for proteins that do the chemistry that put molecules …

The Micro-Scale Applications group explores the genetic makeup of natural microbial communities using a …

… to bacteria, yeasts and algae previously with little to no genetic tools enabling heterologous expression and …

… a timeline like this, researchers would normally craft a genetic clock based on its divergence with a  different … researchers to use the genome assembly to calibrate their genetic clock.  Various researchers around the globe were each working on their own genetic clock to discover when eelgrass established itself …

… of it. So it wasn’t only chemistry or only biochemistry or genetics. It was also ecology. It was also evolution. It was … my PhD, I was mainly working in the lab, right? I was doing genetics, and I was very much into biosynthesis of these … And then we’re building phylogenies a lot, making phylogenetic trees, and then trying to see if the trees make …

… for culturing, and then of course using modern phylogenetic tools measuring genes, the 16S gene, and comparing …

… including single-cell and spatial transcriptomics barcode-based genetics (RB-TnSeq), and computational genomics to better …