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Plants are complex organisms that harbor a fantastic diversity of cell types and associated organisms, including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental microbial … of plant/environmental responses … Selected Publications … Research Team Alumni … For further details, …

Research Experience (CURE) that consists of coordinated hands-on experiments across fungal biology teaching labs. The purpose of the program is … to biological inference and understanding of fungal diversity, ecology, and potential applications. … The …

… postdoc Panama as part of the international cooperative biodiversity group (ICBG) based in Panama and was dual there … And we’ve done some work with those and have a couple of publications out there on the chemistry. There’s so much … what we know is they’re quite selective in some way for antifungal activity. They are also, some of them, are …

Microbes drive critical ecosystem functions and affect global nutrient cycling, however they … and computational exploration of uncultivated viral diversity, characterization of molecular mechanisms involved … abundant ocean viruses.  Nature . 537:689-93. … Selected Publications … For further information contact the Group …

Usually, in a lot of cases, we still have to go through publications to get proteins, and their functions, and all that stuff. And that’s the most laborious … see. So it doesn’t seem to be a correlation between biodiversity in taxa and biodiversity in secondary metabolites. …

Yeah, so any metabolite, produced by bacterial or fungal metabolism by microbes, will have a functional role. … is that you could, therefore, expect a lot of chemical diversity. So many compounds will fulfill the same function. … of natural product biosynthesis in bacteria ” The ActDES publication came out after we talked. It looks like a great …

… research.  These efforts include exploration of the global diversity of alternative genetic codes (Science 2014), … of host-virus interactions, the exploration of the functional dark matter as well as the development of novel … Science 344(6186):909-13 … Research Efforts … Selected Publications … For further details, please reach out to the …

… of molecules can be thought of as signals or have other functions depending on their concentration and their … the answer would be that there’s actually a great deal of diversity within these methanotrophs for example, that are … up on previous Natural Prodcast episodes  here . Show Notes Publication: Suo Z et al. A Mesorhizobium japonicum quorum …

… growth, provide critical advantages to the organisms producing them, and are often involved in defense, nutrient … program aims to tap into the largely unexplored biochemical diversity within secondary metabolites, expanding their … experimental approaches to explore the synthesis and function of these biologically significant compounds. By …

… of Natural Prodcast. A little bit of a bonus episode, since I’m off schedule, but this is an important one that … not enough time and money. I mean, we have a huge marine fungal project in collaboration with Bill Fenical at … And I think a lot of times, too, when we even look at publications, it’s always positive data, right? No one ever …

… where I was a graduate student. Aflatoxin, of course, is a fungal natural product which is a liver toxin when humans … with animal metabolism itself, and it’s really amazing what diversity there is in animals. I think, even despite the … you’d like to read more about this, I highly recommend his publication last year, “The Biosynthetic Diversity of the …

… was less nutrients but enough that you had a lot of biodiversity. So we choose environments that are close enough … colors. I mean, where else in nature– and they’re not fungal. Where else nature can you go see colonies of … ATP synthase.” On everninomicin biosynthesis: “EvdS6 is a bifunctional decarboxylase from the everninomicin gene …