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… Hey Marcy!  ALISON: Hey Marcy?  MARCY: Hello. How’s it going?  DAN: Good. How are you?  MARCY: Am fine. I live in a … to do an independent study on ethnobotany of some of the plants that people were using for medicines in this very … tell us about this squid-microbe relationship. Or is it a microbial community with microbial community relationship?  …

… critical ecosystem functions and affect global nutrient cycling, however they do so under strong constraints exerted by viruses. Research in the viral genomics … parameters driving virus:host dynamics in environmental microbial communities. This involves both experimental and …

… of secondary metabolites across bacteria, fungi, algae and plants. These molecules, which are not essential for … growth, provide critical advantages to the organisms producing them, and are often involved in defense, nutrient … Studying how these compounds are biosynthesized and their roles in the environment, can unlock new avenues for …

… determine if these fungi act as friends or foes. The Impact Microbial communities comprised of fungi and bacteria can thrive in plant roots. They play key roles in maintaining the plant’s health and diversity, which … work was partly enabled by a JGI Community Science Program (CSP) proposal led by INRAE’s Francis Martin that contributed …

… to unlock their potential for bioenergy, environmental sustainability, and bioproducts. By sequencing and analyzing the genomes of these organisms, the program investigates … Program aims to streamline genome analysis workflows for microbial eukaryotes, build fungal and algal pangenomes, and …

… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth … we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. I … could help us to one day develop plants that are more drought-tolerant. These kinds of innovations are …

… The Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) call represents … on an accelerated timeline as compared with the standard CSP projects. In addition, they must utilize a broad range … Proposals for the annual FICUS call with EMSL begin with a Letter of Intent (LOI) from a researcher, briefly …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … Natural Products conference, which took place last January 2020 in San Diego. San Diego, of course, is the “home turf” … JGI projects over the years starting with, you know, the CSP that we did and then leading up to today to some …

… DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … of this is based on a really great paper that came out in 2020 where this is all explained in detail, so if you’d like … could be a reasonable number if you are talking about a plant and a microbe interacting very stably. So it makes …

… Overview The JGI provides sequencing, synthesis, and targeted metabolomics support for DOE-BER funded awards, including awards funded through  BER Funding Opportunity … and should generally conform to the guidelines for our  CSP Large Scale call .  Process Proposals may be submitted …

… The JGI’s data stewardship expertise and infrastructure enable a broad community of scientists and engineers to leverage our data to develop new algorithms, models and tools in support of DOE mission priorities. Data discoverability … Download plant, algal, fungal and microbial genomes and metagenomes — top-quality genomic …

… Synthesis Program supports a wide range of projects, from single-gene synthesis to the synthesis of entire chromosomes, advancing the development of biofuels, biochemicals and other bioenergy solutions.  The program has been a pioneering effort in functional genomics since 2012, with a focus …