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… It was unpublished at that point. But people would push out gene clusters maybe once a month at most. Maybe twice a … them on a regular basis. So they are full of terrestrial microbes. So they’re open ecosystems. They’re not sealed off … in the cave project just now switching from intermicrobial interactions, studying intermicrobial interactions by …
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… Microbes drive critical ecosystem functions and affect … level. To fully characterize the range of virus-host interactions occurring in microbiomes, these omics data must … of green sulfur bacteria with long standing virus-host interactions. ISME J. 15, 1569–1584. …
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… the user and no granting of funds. Proposal Call FICUS CSP Large Scale CSP New Investigator CSP Functional Genomics JGI-TMF Critical Minerals and …
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… I was imagining some massive contraption for amplifying genes. I wasn’t really sure what actinobacteria were. Dan … what’s important in terms of the chemistry produced by microbes. And by what’s important, I mean, like, where … in Antarctica on a ship. Yeah, so I went to Antarctica in 2018 as a participant in Homeward Bound 2, last year as …
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… At the end of the day, all the content produced by microbes the result of millions of years of evolution. And … the active site of an enzyme. So there is no promiscuity, generally speaking, in primary metabolism. Nevertheless, … symbiont, for example, of an ant. So these are very stable interactions that have been evolving for 300 million years, …
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… was looking to develop new methods for DNA sequencing of microbes. And what kept breaking our methods was these damn … that can’t live without their host. They have no extra genes hanging around, they still dedicate 20-30% of their … angry with one another, and trying to unpack all of those interactions. You know, that’s what gets me excited. That’s …
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… ALISON TAKEMURA: I know that it’s looking in the genome for genetic elements of interest, you know, something like … want to explain that to someone who doesn’t know much about genetics or anything else, science wise maybe, what genome … it’s like these molecules can just mediate so many kinds of interactions. And by understanding them, we can promote the …
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… The Community Science Program (CSP) provides the scientific community at large with access … of disciplines. Three calls fall under the umbrella of our CSP: The Large Scale call is for expansive projects that … the completion of a project, the JGI makes the assemblies, gene annotations, and analyses available to the community at …
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… and 200 polar/500 nonpolar metabolomics samples, and should generally conform to the guidelines for our CSP Large Scale call . Process Proposals may be submitted … are strongly encouraged to contact the JGI to determine general feasibility prior to submitting a BER proposal that …
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… product reports on the evolution of genome mining and microbes with Mohammad Alanjary and Tilmann Weber to be a … of it. So it wasn’t only chemistry or only biochemistry or genetics. It was also ecology. It was also evolution. It was … I could see a certain time span within these biosynthetic gene clusters. There’s gene fusion going on, and then I …
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… bioprospecting vs biopiracy, early stage drug discovery in general, and a possible data-driven future for plant natural … a really interesting field that I guess– so I’m more of a microbe guy, and as is Alison, or not a guy, but [LAUGHS] a … better could be perhaps to take deeper looks at the interactions that organisms have, not just within the same …
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… conifer needle microbiomes. The survey showed what these microbes are equipped to do on the leaf surface. More … including resilience to stress, decomposition, and interactions between forests and the atmosphere. The team learned that some bacterial families carry genes for degrading monoterpenes such as α-pinene, as well …
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