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… and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are … a great way to see how climate change affects freshwater ecosystems, and how those ecosystems work. …

… of bioinformatics tools for  extracting snippets of microbial genomes directly from environmental sequence data, … are often less diverse than those within more moderate ecosystems. A few years ago, a candidate bacterial lineage … hot springs, including Dewar Creek. Continuing explorations into this unique environment, researchers from the …

… is now her primary interest and passion. Dr. Woyke stepped into the Microbial Genomics Program Lead position in 2009 and assumed … the wild. Science 344, 909-913. Rinke et al. 2013. Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark …

… and management best practices that have advanced the microbial sciences. The Prize also recognizes innovative and … has changed our understanding of the microbiome and the microbial sciences field. Roux will be recognized at the … viral diversity, understand the role of viruses in natural ecosystems, and functionally explore viral genetic …

… genetic microdiversity or core metabolic flexibility? … Microbial contributions to soil carbon storage during …

… strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk community sequencing … collected using fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) into smaller, less diverse pools before being subjected to … of HCR-FISH+FACS for selectively enriching low abundance microbial groups from complex natural communities. This type …

… cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial communities that contribute to carbon cycling, and … insights about how microbes have adapted to thrive in polar ecosystems. The work by Cavicchioli’s team sheds light on … cells, the first member of the Archaea isolated from Deep Lake, the coldest place on Earth known to support life, …

Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals highlight … State University and colleagues are interested in the microbial communities that live on Alaska’s glacially … public agricultural research corporation, is focused on microbial interactions on the Amazon forest floor. Alicia …

So maybe we could start with that background – what got you into secondary metabolism, besides being forced to work with … we’re having our new crop of partner instructors come into Wisconsin so we can train them to take the course back … Canada. I just got back from a conference in Canada on antimicrobial resistance sponsored by the Garner foundation. And …

… outreach program to get kids interested in microbiology and microbial chemistry. All good stuff, and I hope you enjoy … but-- [LAUGHS] I feel like a lot of people hedge their way into natural products by starting out in synthesis and then … story. But-- DAN: So then tell us how this ties into your JGI project. BETSY PARKINSON: Yeah, that's a …