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…   The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is a national user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The JGI consists of 225 researchers and support staff … program, the JGI integrates the genomic capabilities of four partner institutions: Berkeley Lab, Lawrence Livermore …

… The Fungal & Algal Program explores the vast diversity of fungi and … and bioproducts. By sequencing and analyzing the genomes of these organisms, the program investigates the … and biogeochemistry. The program’s focus is on large-scale sequencing efforts that survey the vast phylogenetic …

… DAN: Hello, everyone, and Welcome back for Episode 14 of … and rate and drive down the cost of producing riboflavin at scale.  DAN: Got it.  NIGEL MOUNCEY: And I did that for … help the Society grow. And so I’ve been the chair of the publications committee for the last, what is it now, five …

… Research in the Woyke laboratory focuses on the utility of single-cell methods to … from candidate phyla, major branches in the phylogenetic tree without cultivated representatives. The “Great … in the strongly biased representation of sequenced genomes in the public domain, the bulk of which belong to …

…   DAN: Got it.    NANCY: And this is really to complete the genomes, and I’m really thankful for this. It sort of goes … contigs. And so most fungi… Oh, the fungi vary in number of chromosomes. Like, ironically, yeast, which has a small … has eight chromosomes. It goes by genera. Neurospora has four chromosomes. So if you have one of these fungi, can you …

… With collaborative user projects, the JGI’s Plant Program delves into the natural world’s potential to address global challenges by exploring plants’ role in … The Plant Program advances our understanding of plants’ biological … renewable energy and agricultural productivity. Research spans diverse areas — from understanding how terrestrial …

… yes, sure, right. And yeah, so we worked on the Salinospora genomes. That was a really fun project. We had Brad on and … mean, I am– yeah. I just got the position like three years, four years– four years ago I think. Yeah. Yeah, Paul Jensen. … Usually, in a lot of cases, we still have to go through publications to get proteins, and their functions, and all …

… And we’ve done some work with those and have a couple of publications out there on the chemistry. There’s so much … then we would take our two foot core. And so that’s only four feet in. And there is quite a bit of sun and exposure … so they end up probably over time dispersing across the chromosome. So I think that’s my feeling.  And so it could …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint … them utilize the enediyne as a payload molecule. The other four also utilize two different natural products. So a … well. One is to do DNA sequencing. So upon sequencing many genomes, now we don’t have to, as in the past, go randomly …

… And it actually was jumping onto the I ntegrated Microbial Genomes and Metagenomes, the IMG platform that JGI has that … has been fun because then we’ve been able to blow out the scale a little bit for the project. DAN: Do you see broader … out the quorum sensing signals very quickly. So there’s four carbons that are derived from methionine, you run two …