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I wouldn’t say I was one of these people that wants to study oceanography and was fascinated by the oceans, though … what’s important in terms of the chemistry produced by microbes. And by what’s important, I mean, like, where … tools, in terms of looking at the chemistry produced by microbes, they’re pretty adaptable to other organisms. And …

… where smaller proposals may be a fit. Still not 20 many microbes. We still we work in plates, right? We’re a high … related to human health or creating vaccines, human gut microbiomes. We don’t do things related to human health. … and coastal. But we’ve kind of shied away from the ocean. Microbes. We’ve done those in the past, but the DOE mission …

… of these bacteria that eat methane, so they can use methane gas as their sole source of carbon and energy. And it was … think about these weird organisms, you think about methane gas. And oftentimes people’s mind go right to anaerobic … ecology community to be able to better predict how their microbes are interacting with each other from sequence …

… use natural products necessarily. Fungi are large. They’re microbes, but they’re large microbes. And they have all … they only talk about the bacteria. My god! 30% of our gut microbes are fungi. It’s really frustrating to me. Maybe … this, is that I don’t have an awareness of how to go about studying them. Like to me, fungi are, you know, how do you …

… what was this bacterium, and why did your group want to study it? Marnix Medema: You mean the PhD project that I … We got so many submissions. But indeed, people are still contributing this data and that’s fantastic too. That indeed … a nice example of going from a whole community with many microbes, hundreds of gene clusters, and then being able to …

… was adjacent to what I worked on, but my experience of how microbes are interacting in the environment like, like my … I’m definitely seeing why this is such an important area to study. Okay, what’s your third story?  DAN: The third story … ALISON: Hmm, yeah, I guess this relates to when I was studying heterotrophic bacteria: the core genome and the …

… missions. Using bioinformatics tools and genome portals, we study lignocellulose decomposition, CO2 fixation, redox …

… natural products science as a field, we have arguably been studying microbial natural products in an ordered way for … an enormous amount of time and resources and money in studying this field. Yet we don’t really know what we know. … of areas, we would like to do a better job of understanding gas phase reaction mechanisms. We would like to do a better …

… in natural products as an undergrad. So for me, it was studying sort of the interface of chemistry and biology … me. And I could combine my passions in different areas to study how these molecules made, how do you test the … of Utah , about her secondary metabolism research on novel microbes and bioactive compounds in the Great Salt Lake. …

The EPA attributes one-fifth of all methane emissions to livestock and roughly one-third of human-created methane … come from livestock — specifically, from the methane-making microbes within their rumen. There is another climate-minded reason for studying rumen: Livestock live off plant matter, and their …

… and synthetic biology. But also the metagenomics and gut microbiome, as I think that it’s like a perfect storm in … the production of the natural product. So that was my PhD study, and then towards the end of my PhD study, then recombinant DNA technology was becoming …