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… 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 …

… characterization of the physiological responses to salt stress in S cenedesmus obliquus UTEX393." …

… 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: …

… 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 …

…   The Impact There are 900 species of eucalyptus. The trees are fast-growing plantation crops that supply wood and …

… trained in synthetic chemistry as were you and then made their way into the field of natural products in some way, … can have drastically different properties in terms of their solubility, their stability. JACKIE WINTER: It’s hard to predict how one …

… make them more appealing bioenergy feedstock crops. The trees can be bred to be more resistant to environmental …

… Going to the laboratory and opening them up and looking at their chemistry was a pretty magical period of time. So that … really love to work on, and what interests them really in their hearts, and they can just jump into these projects. … Aquarium, through this new NOAA grant, to be able to use their technology of autonomous underwater rovers that look …