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… they spread, why do they spread in a certain way from one bacteria to another, how do they change then, and why are … And she happened to work with nature products from cyanobacteria. So that’s how I started. I love the lab, I love … the microviridins. These are cyclic peptides from cyanobacteria. They have a tricyclic structure that’s really …

… biology classes in undergrad, but my PhD was an actinobacteria. And I tell all my students this now, but when I … for amplifying genes. I wasn’t really sure what actinobacteria were. Dan Udwary: Yeah, this all sounds very … them. But fundamental is the chemistry produced by actinobacteria and what influences that. Dan Udwary: I want to …

… years, has been to bring generalizable technologies to bacteria, yeasts and algae previously with little to no …

… in plants, fungi, microalgae, environmental viruses, and bacteria to contribute to a more sustainable world. Learn …

… in their natural environments. This work encompasses bacteria, archaea, and micro-eukaryoes, along with their …

… is focused on the discovery and characterization of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in … 1-9 Schulz et al. (2017) Towards a balanced view of the bacterial tree of life. Microbiome. 5 (1), 1-6 Schulz et al. … 18 (8), 2326-2342 Schulz and Horn (2015) Intranuclear bacteria: inside the cellular control center of eukaryotes. …

… particularly sigma factors that initiate transcription in bacteria. Using this technology, which combines an in vitro … expand the known transcriptional regulatory network in bacteria, enabling the discovery of regulatory cascades as … eukaryotes is handled by three distinct RNA polymerases; in bacteria there is only one type of RNA polymerase …

… work like ActDES, which is a curated database of actinobacteria for evolutionary studies, and hopefully we can … BARONA-GOMEZ: Yeah, so any metabolite, produced by bacterial or fungal metabolism by microbes, will have a … part– which we don’t call it duplication, because in bacteria, I will say it, but I don’t think duplications take …

… delicately above the leaf debris are revealed to be single bacterial cells, visible to the naked eye. The unusual size is notable because bacteria aren’t usually visible without the assistance of microscope. “It’s 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. To put it into context, it would be like a human …

Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi … trees, and microbial activity teems beneath your feet. Both bacteria and fungi have genes that can break down plant … Fungi are much more active in degrading plant matter, and bacteria are more active in fixing and metabolizing …

… about several different pieces of her work, including bacterial quorum sensing and its effects on regulation of … products and got really interested in thinking about how bacteria actually are able to make some of these really … Yes. JACKIE: And using these hormones as a way that bacteria can talk to each other and then up-regulate or …