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… So, one of those is Acinetibacter . This is a genus of bacteria that’s really popped up at funding agencies and the … of a new pathogen, so it wasn’t in big pharma screens of bacteria from 20-30 years ago. So it’s in our screen, and … of the opinion that on the geological timescale, that most bacterial natural product systems evolved, you know, a …

… through the stories I told you about geosmin, which is a bacterial sacred metabolite, and ergot alkaloids come from fungi, and Taxol from plants. Plants, fungi, bacteria, archaea, they all have secondary metabolism. They … time. But we know now that most of those pathways come from bacteria that actually live within, say, the sponges or …

… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi … trees, and microbial activity teems beneath your feet. Both bacteria and fungi have genes that can break down plant … Fungi are much more active in degrading plant matter, and bacteria are more active in fixing and metabolizing …

… delicately above the leaf debris are revealed to be single bacterial cells, visible to the naked eye. The unusual size is notable because bacteria aren’t usually visible without the assistance of microscope. “It’s 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. To put it into context, it would be like a human …

… An Age of CRAGE: Advances in Rapidly Engineering Non-model Bacteria Check out the agenda for the JGI’s 2021 Annual …

… a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and … example, the JGI first used CRAGE to engineer domesticated bacterial strains with novel biosynthetic gene clusters … molecules of value to both human and ecosystem health. But bacteria often fail to express their BGC molecules in the …

… flagella in an unexpected place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . Research shows … of millions of years ago.  The Impact Chloroflexota are bacteria that act like tiny natural engineers with special … and recycle carbon. They were part of an ancient lineage of bacteria to migrate from oceans and colonize land. …

… 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 … a chemical compound called geosmin that’s produced by soil bacteria that live all over the place. So that smell of rain …

… colleagues. Aaron is doing some cool stuff with cool bacteria that I’m fascinated to learn more about. He works … with methylotrophs, which are a group of carbon-fixing bacteria that I would say are are still fairly unexplored in … look at host pathogen interactions mostly with like enteric bacteria. And I really fell in love with the bacteria part …