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… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … week, we have our conversation with Professor Eric Schmidt, from the University of Utah. I’ve known Eric for a long time … it turns out that a lot of natural products are built up from amino acids, so they’re secondary metabolite peptides. …

… The Prokaryote Advisory Committee is chartered to offer advice, guidance and counsel on the effective management and strategic objectives of the microbial and metagenome programs and report back to them. The Committee is chartered to render advice, …

… systems, sheds light on nutrient cycling, and leads to the discovery of new molecules and pathways. The JGI Metabolomics Platform delivers rich metabolite profiles from diverse biological and environmental samples using … molecular profiles are generated for metabolites extracted from a variety of experimental samples, including organisms …

… oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base … photosynthesizing organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and planktos for … point to this fundamental observation of cold and warm microbial networks, and just how clear and stark the …

… Congratulations to the proposers of the 19 proposals selected for the 2023 … very excited to start working with this years’ crop of CSP recipients, over half of which are first-time PIs on a … year’s recipients on our Twitter. Samples were collected from across a permafrost age gradient from the Fox …

… genomic information using minute quantities of DNA derived from individual environmental cells. The proof of principle … and offered a way for researchers to study the planet’s microbial diversity, much of which remains unknown and … identify, and characterize more than 200 microbial genomes that were mapped to nearly 30 major previously …

… team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … Department of Energy’s goal of producing sustainable fuels from alternative sources. Moreover, the team says the … This work was supported by DOE Joint Genome Institute grant  CSP-503076 (IW, HA, and MB) and NSF  1706545 (IW). HA and JW …

… (Graphic: Neil Byers) The JGI launched the 1000 Fungal Genomes (1KFG) Project through a 2012 Community Science … of reference genomes for fungal metagenomics. Two more CSP proposals came in 2016 that would complement these initial efforts: Spatafora and Jason Stajich from UC Riverside would focus on broad sampling of early …

… For the first time, a team has analyzed in parallel the genomes and transcriptomes of both partners to better … could help inform efforts at bioengineering symbiotic microbial consortia for bioenergy crops. And because lichens … autonomy; they can be isolated and grown separately from each other. A possible explanation, according to the …