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… or online catalog, I guess. So we've also been able to get soils from Purdue campus itself and been able to actually … can do these small rings, and so I think we need a better understanding of that. We have a crystal structure, and … --really high. DAN: Yeah. Graduate school is a pressured environment, right? JACKIE: Yes. DAN: And so there's …

… let’s see what caves have to offer because they’re unique environments. These are structures that are millions of … off through these areas. And you can do– with a teaspoon of soil from outside, you maybe have to do a 10,000-fold … in everninomicin and analogs of that, you’re really understanding one specific biosynthetic pathway. I guess how …

… actually can learn just by really digging into the data and understanding what’s going on there. And now, that’s all I … which is still hard to do. We are mining a lot of environments to see where are environments that have the … of these environments? NADINE ZIEMERT: So we started with soil. But we also have, in collaboration with other people, …

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… the world bring us big problems related to energy and the environment – problems that might need special technology … has recognized how important natural products are to understanding the natural environment, and so our Director, … is a chemical compound called geosmin that’s produced by soil bacteria that live all over the place. So that smell of …

… on an old rum still, which– you’ve got this very sugary environment. It’s a compound that clearly kills things that … we’ve just been cataloging who’s there in these different environments. And now it’s really about what are they doing. … interested in this and have made tremendous advances in understanding how to harness the power of second metabolite …

… stay there. And then, you know, they will have to create an environment that’s good for them to grow in. They might have … of secondary metabolism in the environment, and, sort of, understanding – like we’ve talked about – how bacteria or … products because they’re easy to find. They grow in the soil. These are the same guys that produce geosmin. And so …

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Genome Institute is under the DOE’s mission of energy and environment. And so we know that lots of different types of … producing molecules that are helpful to the plants. And so, understanding those broader environmental and ecological … disparate environments. There’s some marine. There’s some soil samples. There’s human gut samples. There’s lots and …

… your opinion then on bioprospecting in sparse nutrient environments versus the tropics? Because like you say there … those numbers are still actually pretty high in terms of understanding from just sequence gazing alone what those … of natural products for bioactive compound discovery, understanding symbiosis, and a JGI project around ants and …

And within the DOE is BER, which stands for Biological and Environmental Research, which is a program that funds JGI … on biological research to better understand energy and environment, and natural product molecules obviously play a … focus on terrestrial ecosystems, but we work in coastal environments, brackish environments, et cetera. Now in terms …

… these compounds are biosynthesized and their roles in the environment, can unlock new avenues for bio-based products … compounds are key to organisms' interactions with their environments and with each other, from defending against …