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… talent for biosciences.  Adopt-a-Genome has: ~20 faculty from institutions across the country Efforts in ongoing … A primary purpose of this project is to bring educators from a broad range of disciplines up-to-speed with some of … skills necessary to extract meaningful biological insights from sequence data, employing IMG data and tools for …

… is a dynamic and complex ecosystem that includes bacteria, fungi, viruses. Resident viruses can be found in a myriad of … rhizobacterium (PGPR) Pseudomonas simiae WCS417. One suggested function of these phage genes is the … and computational approach, we employ various omics technologies, strain engineering and experimental …

… real legends of natural products, Professor Bill Fenical from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. Bill … animals, for example by dredging and all these kinds of techniques. But the ocean was just not considered to be of … from the ocean. We didn’t know whether to study bacteria, fungi, archaea, the whole range of microbial life. So, we …

… program is to: train students and professors in laboratory techniques and data analyses compile original data for … genome sequencing of new fungal species.  Students collect fungi, sterilize tissue, isolate genes and more. The … selected for sequencing 16 genomes released 20 members from 15 institutions 300+ students 800+ iNaturalist …

… and expertise of multiple DOE National User Facilities in one research proposal.  Successful applications will focus … but proof of concept for the demonstration of a technology that would be applicable to DOE mission is … FICUS call with EMSL begin with a Letter of Intent (LOI) from a researcher, briefly describing the project …

… is focused on supporting the DOE missions in energy and biotechnology through analyzing and harnessing genomic information from plants, fungi, algae, non-medical microbes, microbial communities, … Centers , which seek to accelerate the development of biofuels and bioproducts. The JGI continues to receive its …

… the University of Hawaii and moved there in the early ’60s from Berkeley to work on this new budding field of marine … NOAA has funded to really look at how we can use our gene technology to predict when blooms are going to happen, that … metabolomics, and natural products in plants, fungi, and microorganisms. If you want to collaborate, let …

… lot going on, so I took a little break, but I’m hoping that from here I can get back to a regular schedule. I’m going to … new role as the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology’s (SIMB) new President-elect. I also want to take … which, at least at the time, was called Inatreq . It’s a fungicide that is active against Sartoria which is a really …

… genome mining on more than 50,000 genomes that we derived from meta-genome sequences. As always, you’ll find … in the earlier primers. In bacteria, at least, and in most fungi, biosynthetic gene clusters, which are the genes that … service to the secondary metabolite community. What other techniques are there for finding these biosynthetic gene …

…   Metabolomics strengthens -omics technologies at the JGI by identifying the actual molecules … JGI Metabolomics Platform delivers rich metabolite profiles from diverse biological and environmental samples using … experimental samples, including organisms (e.g. microbes, fungi, plant), media in which they grow, as well as …

… of phage and virus genomes have been assembled and reported from metagenomes, our understanding of the impacts of these viruses on microbiome processes is still limited. One key challenge is to complement diversity surveys ( Who … about an Uncultivated Virus Genome (MIUViG). Nature Biotech. 37, 29–37. https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.4306 …

… Prodcast. And it’s our conversation with Nadine Ziemert from the University of Tübingen in Germany. Like me, she’s a … a marine actinomycete bacterium. So they look kind of like fungi but also make these mycelia. They kind of look like … talking about what it would take to expand on the existing technology. And a lot of that was around chemical …