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… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … in Nature and Medicine.” It’s obviously focused more on the bacterial side of the field, and it’s a little hard to find in print, but we live in the information age and the ebook version is available at most …

… fantastic diversity of cell types and associated organisms, including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental microbial pathogens, and … This is a dynamic and complex ecosystem that includes bacteria, fungi, viruses. Resident viruses can be found in a … experimental characterization methods, in addition to bioinformatics tools to elucidate phage function in this …

… Hey, Alison Takemura: Hey, Dan. Dan Udwary: Today we’re going to talk to Kate Duncan. And Kate is– I should ask, you … I think it must’ve been about 2001, maybe, and so it was before smartphones and before laptops and everything. And I … biology classes in undergrad, but my PhD was an actinobacteria. And I tell all my students this now, but when I …

… Research in the Woyke laboratory focuses on the utility of … material of uncultivated taxa of interest. One such effort is targeted at environmental cells that are from … of microbial metabolism towards a minority of cultivated bacteria, still persists to date. Research Team    …

… Overview The JGI provides sequencing, synthesis, and targeted metabolomics support for DOE-BER funded awards, including awards funded through  … are strongly encouraged to contact the JGI to determine general feasibility prior to submitting a BER proposal … Collection Network (USCCN) to nominate their strains for sequencing, as long as they have a scientific question …

… through the stories I told you about geosmin, which is a bacterial sacred metabolite, and ergot alkaloids come from … so secondary metabolism is throughout nature, except maybe for animals and humans, not as much. You know, we have this … They might need to secrete siderophores to pick up metals and bring them back into their cell. And yeah, and …

… focuses on the exploration of secondary metabolites across bacteria, fungi, algae and plants. These molecules, which are not essential for fundamental growth, provide critical advantages to the organisms producing them, and are often involved in defense, nutrient …

… DAN: Hey, everybody. Welcome back for another episode of Natural Prodcast. Right now I’m working on this the afternoon of the day I’m due to release it, … colleagues. Aaron is doing some cool stuff with cool bacteria that I’m fascinated to learn more about. He works …

… Dan Udwary: Hey everybody! Welcome back for Natural Prodcast episode 17. The guest we have this week … is Professor Cassandra Quave from Emory University, with joint appointments in the School of Medicine and College of … a check-up on me. And I wonder how that intersects with bacterial bioprospecting that is often done, where we’re …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … to Natural Prodcast! This is episode 4! From here on out, for a while, we’re going to be presenting some conversations … been dominated for … well, as long as I can remember, by bacterial research.  So it was great to hear her passion and …

… right. Welcome back to Natural Prodcast. I did it. I’m keeping to my schedule. This should be coming out on the first … not good at that, you guys. I’m trying really hard just for you. And the JGI Comms team. But mostly you. Anyway…I’m … about several different pieces of her work, including bacterial quorum sensing and its effects on regulation of …

… is focused on the discovery and characterization of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. We use multi-omics (metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, single cell genomics and phylogenomics) and machine learning …