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… the air, large swaths of the bleached, skeletal remains of trees can be seen. These plagued patches have become … to an all-time high. California homeowners witnessed how their once stout oaks, the anchors of their properties , … in losses , including the death of tens of millions of trees in California alone. With the genome sequence in hand, …

… carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees to grow. However, fire changes the microbes within the … forests back to full function. Foresters can transplant trees and soils, targeting helpful bacteria, viruses and …

Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial activity teems beneath your feet. Both … and messenger RNA sequences (transcriptomes) from their soil samples. This gene expression dataset was … floor: the leaf litter on top of the soil, the roots of the trees, the rhizosphere soil (soil under direct influence of …

… about sponges, can you maybe explain what’s going on with their biology and why they’re so important to natural … responsible for filtering out a lot of the bacteria in their environment and eating them. They’re filter feeders … so far people looking at that chemistry have focused on how their microbiome – how bacteria living with the sponges – …

… diversity, the sheer number of chemicals they produce, their ability to evolve, to go with horizontal gene transfer … in Trader Joe’s, and put that in your smoothie in terms of their antioxidant properties. And the field is kind of … actinomycetes. So by “rare,” it’s nothing really to do with their abundance. It’s just that they’re less studied than …

… incredibly interested in what fungi could do and what their natural products could do to us. So I’d say my initial … now found that some fungi have different ITS sequences in their genome, which might get you a little confused as to … able to start looking at some of these parasite genes, and their proteins, and since this one happens to fall in my …

… products. So after realizing that enzymes were specific for their substrates, that you couldn’t buy– there wasn’t a … Yeah, so we can make bioactive analogs that retain their activity and have different pharmacological …

I'm older, but-- [LAUGHS] I feel like a lot of people hedge their way into natural products by starting out in synthesis … the lab go out and get soil from different areas around their dorm and things like that. And we've been able to … the life cycle, but we're just particularly interested in their connection to these biosynthetic gene clusters. DAN: …

… birds are chirping and a soft breeze ripples through the trees in his backyard. Originally from northern California … Institute for Biotechnology, and Duke University, published their research related to how bacteria that colonize the roots of sphagnum work to transfer their thermotolerance abilities. This capacity to survive …