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… The Fungal & Algal Program explores the vast diversity of fungi and algae to unlock their potential for bioenergy, … and bioproducts. By sequencing and analyzing the genomes of these organisms, the program investigates the biological … strains. This approach allows for the identification of key functional traits that have direct applications in bioenergy …

…   The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is a national … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The JGI consists of 225 researchers and support staff in the Integrative … as the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase and the National Microbiome Data Collective.    …

… analysis techniques to explore the vast and diverse world of microbes. Studying bacteria and archaea, including those … associated with microeukaryotes, enhances our understanding of terrestrial biogeochemical cycling and inter-organismal … applications. By expanding our knowledge of microbial functions and interactions, the Microbial Program supports …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a … a class of natural product with a really cool chemical structure. We try to explain it, but it’s chemistry, so I … you to, say, go to your grandma’s backyard. To collect the diversity that exists in the 1940s? The answer is no! If …

… So he could see really into this– so he could look into the structure, really seeing that. And I’m always just looking … 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 …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a … is a fungal natural product which is a liver toxin when humans accidentally eat it, but it has a really fun and … with animal metabolism itself, and it’s really amazing what diversity there is in animals. I think, even despite the …

… postdoc Panama as part of the international cooperative biodiversity group (ICBG) based in Panama and was dual there … bobtail squid has two organs that solely house– whose sole function is to house bacterial associates. And so the one … And we’ve done some work with those and have a couple of publications out there on the chemistry. There’s so much …

… Research in the Woyke laboratory focuses on the utility of single-cell methods to access genetic material of uncultivated taxa of interest. One such effort is targeted at environmental … In particular during an era of ‘homology creep’, function prediction as purely based on annotation may not be …

… program, which stands for International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups, and it’s this great program funded by the … So, I’ve always known Roger as an expert in natural product structure elucidation, but more recently, he’s been leading … because they are selected against because of their lack of function. So knowing about the full sweep of chemistry which …

… Plants are complex organisms that harbor a fantastic diversity of cell types and associated organisms, including fungal and … and are influenced by microbial partners. We use a variety of genomics-powered tools to study this complexity, … (PGPR) Pseudomonas simiae WCS417. One suggested function of these phage genes is the modulation of their …

… by bacterial or fungal metabolism by microbes, will have a functional role. We started from that. Evolution doesn’t … that you need to do these coordination bonds, then many structures will be able to work. So, for example, in that … is that you could, therefore, expect a lot of chemical diversity. So many compounds will fulfill the same function. …

… 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 … “tail of the acyl homoserine lactone” can have different structures, and that is akin to what you’re referring to …