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… DAN: All right. Welcome back to Natural Prodcast. I did it. … really happy today to be handing over our interview with Dr Elizabeth (or Betsy) Parkinson from Purdue … fun that we've started that is a different subject is from microbes to medicine labs. So this is-- we've been working …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint … lucky to get some time to sit down and have a great chat with him.  I kind of lost count of how many times Brad used … make a toxin. And that was pretty cool because the work has gone so much more than just identifying genes to that toxin, …

… The Metagenome Program uses advanced sequencing technologies to decode the genomes of microbes in their natural environments. This work … encompasses bacteria, archaea, and micro-eukaryoes, along with their associated viruses and mobile genetic elements. … Program combines large-scale, time-series metagenomic data with detailed characterization of model systems to explore …

… The Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science … Previously, researchers had to apply to each facility with separate review schedules and selection processes, … fundamental science experiments in ways they couldn’t with projects undertaken separately at individual user …

… Research in the Eloe-Fadrosh group focuses on using … and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. We develop computational approaches to … lineages, and reconstruct metabolic properties encoded within those genomes. Our aim is to more fully capture …

… The JGI’s Microbial Program focuses on using cutting-edge sequencing, … techniques to explore the vast and diverse world of microbes. Studying bacteria and archaea, including those associated with microeukaryotes, enhances our understanding of … sequencing technologies to explore microbial diversity — with an emphasis on bacteria and archaea, and including …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint … we’re going to be presenting some conversations we had with scientists in the field of natural products. So, it’s a … they only talk about the bacteria. My god! 30% of our gut microbes are fungi. It’s really frustrating to me. Maybe …

… Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In … of water help regulate. However, the microbes also interact with compounds like fertilizers and microplastics that might … This work was partially supported by awards from US Department of …

… DAN UDWARY: It’s been a while, but Natural Prodcast is back … the next few months, you’re going to hear my last interview with my co-host Alison Takemura, who’s moved on from JGI to … do the bioinformatics and to synthesize these results into publication? So there’s this really important because we …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint … 2 of our “primer” episode, so if you ended up here somehow without having listened to the first part, you might be a … of bacteria and the things that they’re doing in the human gut. Turns out, there’s a lot of chemistry happening there – …

… Dan Udwary: You’re listening to the Department of Energy … pathways. And today, we get to present our conversation with Marnix Medema , from Wageningen University in the … because if you sterilize the soil, the protective effect is gone. You can transplant the effect by taking the microbial …

… to a regular schedule. I’m going to kick things off today with my interview with the Director of the Joint Genome … There were a number of different routes in that could have gone. And even the way it has now, there’s been a lot of … help the Society grow. And so I’ve been the chair of the publications committee for the last, what is it now, five …