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… research is focused on the discovery and characterization of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and … to identify new divergent lineages and expand the Tree of Life. We then investigate the coding potential to find … insights into viral evolution and complexity, and encode for a treasure trove full of novel genes ready to be tapped …
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… DAN: Hello, everyone, and Welcome back for Episode 14 of Natural Prodcast . There’s been a lot going on, so I took … DAN: Excellent, Yeah. OK, cool. So then what specifically about natural products? What got you in that … Program . Since his arrival in 2017, Nigel has led a vision for the JGI that sees secondary metabolism analysis and …
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… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a … to learn more, then I highly recommend David Hopwood’s book called “Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine.” It’s … it’s a little hard to find in print, but we live in the information age and the ebook version is available at most …
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… DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural Prodcast, a … and scientists of secondary metabolism. Welcome back for our second season of Natural Prodcast. This first … Hey, Dan. DAN UDWARY: So I guess this is now– we’ll call this the second season of Natural Prodcast. We’ve both …
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… Dan Udwary: Hey everybody! Welcome back for Natural Prodcast episode 17. The guest we have this week is Professor Cassandra Quave from Emory University, with joint … she’s written a book about her life and her science, called The Plant Hunter , and I have to say it’s so awesome! …
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… DAN: Welcome back for episode 9 of Natural Prodcast. This week, Alison and I … that’s right. I want to talk about that – what were the letters? IBDD? ROGER: ICBG. It’s the International … either both of those pools have to increase in size dramatically, or there has to be a significant collapsing of that …
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… Below is a brief description of the process needed to prepare and ship samples for sequencing by the JGI. Additionally it includes … sample QC requirements and protocols Obtaining DNA and RNA of suitable quantity and quality has been the rate-limiting step for many projects at the JGI. The quality of the starting …
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… DAN: You’re listening to the US. .Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a … Marc was the Head of Experimental Genomics there, before he decided to leave for graduate school and pursue his … of mine from the company that we used to work at together called Warp Drive Bio, which was a genome mining company. So …
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… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a … to Natural Prodcast! This is episode 4! From here on out, for a while, we’re going to be presenting some conversations … well, two things. My PhD work was with a fungal pathogen called Cochliobulis heterostrophis . This is a very well …
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… Udwary: Right. Kate Duncan: But most people that know me call me Kate. Dan Udwary: Great. So we’ve got Kate here today, and we wanted to talk to her about a whole list of things. So we have a Scripps background shared together, … I think it must’ve been about 2001, maybe, and so it was before smartphones and before laptops and everything. And I …
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… have been accepted from 70 full submissions based on 92 letters of intent. Additionally, 40 percent of the proposals … on any proposals previously accepted through JGI’s calls. Nearly 200 Terabases of data are expected to be generated for the accepted proposals, said Susannah Tringe, JGI User …
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… DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural Prodcast– a … Mexico, and an incredibly bright guy who’s been thinking for a long time about the evolution and natural products … metabolism, and natural products, or metabolites, were basically interchangeable terms in terms of common usage. And I …
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