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… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a podcast about the science and scientists of secondary metabolism.  DAN: Hello, and welcome back for Episode 7 of the Natural Prodcast. It’s been about a month now since …

… DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural Prodcast, a … about natural products and the science and scientists of secondary metabolism. Welcome back. This will be episode … chemistry or only biochemistry or genetics. It was also ecology. It was also evolution. It was kind of everything …

… while, but Natural Prodcast is back again for another round of episodes. If you stick around for the next few months, … work with my JGI colleague Menaka Wilhelm, who is the host of JGI’s other podcast, Genome Insider . If you’re a Genome … and natural product molecules obviously play a huge role in ecology through cell-cell communication, chemical warfare, …

… less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in … assumed, due to the wide and varied geographic footprint of the plant, that eelgrass began colonizing the oceans  … the Bering strait, which was previously inaccessible due to Arctic ice.  However, much of eelgrass’s colonization in the …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be … is vital to preserving peatlands in the face of a warming climate. Identifying these sex chromosomes and their …

… Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … act as a protective layer insulating permafrost from the warming regional temperatures. For this reason, the U.S. … environments, occupying every continent except Antarctica. Researchers estimate a quarter of the world’s …

… DAN: Welcome back for episode 9 of Natural Prodcast. This week, Alison and I talk to Roger … University in British Columbia, Canada. This is the last of the podcasts we recorded in my hotel room at SIMB, or the … it from the perspective of biofouling, from chemical ecology, from drug discovery in every possible disease …

… have been elected to the User Executive Committee of the Joint Genome Institute, a Department of Energy user … Michigan State University. He studies fungal biodiversity, ecology, and evolution, with a focus on microbiome sciences … Davis. His current research focuses on the evolution, ecology, genomics and function of microbes and microbiomes, …

… An article summarizing the field of viral metagenomics, authored by JGI researchers Lee … , was  recently published in the journal  Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science . The following guest piece was … to understanding the role of viruses in many areas such as ecology, agriculture, and medicine. In the recently …

… Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His research is focussed on the discovery of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and … insights into the diversity and important ecological roles of microeukaryotes in terrestrial ecosystems. Additionally, …

… genomes to classify gene families. The Science As a proof of concept, researchers developed an algorithm that “taught” … for biomass and biofuel production. Learning about the ecology and evolution of  Dothideomycetes could provide more … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with … friends or foes. The Impact Microbial communities comprised of fungi and bacteria can thrive in plant roots. They play … bioenergy feedstock crops. Summary A plant is like an office building, its roots are akin to the ground floor …