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… Using the IMG/M data portal, researchers have identified a virus protein tied to carbon cycling.  The Science Through a collaborative effort, … distinct from similar proteins found in archaea, fungi or bacteria. Certain similarities with bacterial counterparts …

… DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … work like ActDES, which is a curated database of actinobacteria for evolutionary studies, and hopefully we can … For example, lipids– doesn’t matter if it has one extra carbon or two or one less, at the end of the day, it’s …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … been dominated for … well, as long as I can remember, by bacterial research.  So it was great to hear her passion and … lot of the natural products field is based on, you know, in bacterial investigations. You’ve spent your whole career as …

… Dan Udwary: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … on synthetic biology of engineering gene expression in bacteria – however, the professor was actually quite … gene clusters are more highly abundant in the suppressive soils compared to the conducive soils? So which ones are …

… a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and … FTICR-MS analyses were performed under the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) …

… Research in the Eloe-Fadrosh group focuses on using genome-resolved metagenomic approaches to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. We … focuses on the assembly of metagenomic sequence data into microbial genomes, which is of fundamental value to …

… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate … first to dig into a forest floor ecosystem to discover what carbon- and nitrogen-metabolizing enzymes are abundant, and …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … chemical compounds that you find in plants, fungi and bacteria, basically all living things. When your crazy Aunt … I studied Vibrio species in the ocean, so heterotrophic bacteria. Now, we didn’t get into secondary metabolites …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … Initially, my group really focused on marine actinobacteria. Then we moved into marine proteobacteria. Not a big leap, but then we began looking at … from University of California (UC), San Diego and Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO). You can find the podcast …

… Program works to uncover the roles of small molecules in biological systems, linking them with genomic data to enhance our understanding of … The Metabolomics Program is focused on understanding the critical roles of metabolites in living systems, … samples — including microbes, fungi, plants and soils. Through a combination of experimental workflows and …