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DAN: Welcome back to Natural Prodcast! This is episode 4! From here on out, for a while, we’re going to be presenting … conference, which took place a few weeks ago, in January of 2020. So, you might hear us referencing a conference, and …   DAN: Got it.    NANCY: And this is really to complete the genomes, and I’m really thankful for this. It sort of goes …

… … DAN UDWARY: Hey everyone and welcome back to a new session of Natural Prodcast. I’ve got two things I … our interview this week is with Professor Brian Bachmann from Vanderbilt University’s Chemistry Department, where he … of thought with that. So some people are interested in cave microbial– people are interested in the more extreme …

… demands of our users. … Download plant, algal, fungal and microbial genomes and metagenomes — top-quality genomic data, open to … analysis and annotation of all publicly available genomes from three domains of life, in a uniquely integrated …

The Synthetic Biology lab is divided into a DNA synthesis production group and a synthetic biology … on integrating database mining and sequence design with scaling the production of large, difficult to synthesize … on developing methods for converting digital information from sequence databases into biotechnological or …

… prefers to be known among friends in natural products. He’s from Langebio in Irapuato, Mexico, and an incredibly bright … 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 … UGA-Langebio in Irapuato, Mexico. His interests are in microbial diversity and evolution, particularly as how …

… of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) are subject to the following Data Policy. It is our mission to support … FY22 and later through the Community Science Program (CSP), Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science … Proposals accepted before FY22 are transitioning away from producing use-restricted data. JGI proposals typically …

… you’ll be hearing about microbiology and natural products from the Great Salt Lake, and you’re going to learn, like … has been doing work in secondary metabolism. The very first CSP I ever worked on back in Brad’s lab, we talked about it … are familiar with JGI’s IMG data portal , the Integrated Microbial Genomics, there was a subsection of that called …

… that there wasn’t enough application there. And so I moved from there to plant natural products, getting a PhD in … tell us about this squid-microbe relationship. Or is it a microbial community with microbial community relationship?  … on increasing computational skills among biologists JGI CSP Proposal: Metagenomic mining of natural product …

Laboratory. Being a User Facility means that scientists from all over the world bring us big problems related to … right. So I did a PhD in microbiology at MIT, and I studied microbial ecology. I studied Vibrio species in the ocean, so … or microbial population, you have some set of shared traits that everyone has but there’s still variability. …

… we get to present our conversation with Marnix Medema , from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Marnix is … and a tool for predicting natural product structures from genomes. And I was writing grants furiously to try to get … IMG kind of hooks into IMG’s data. IMG being Integrated Microbial Genomics at JGI, a large data set of bacterial …

… over our interview with Dr Elizabeth (or Betsy) Parkinson from Purdue University. She’s in the Department of Chemistry … pathways, which led her to a successfully funded JGI CSP project. And we also got to talk about work at her … outreach program to get kids interested in microbiology and microbial chemistry. All good stuff, and I hope you enjoy …

Committee (SAC) is a board convened by the JGI Director to provide a scientific and technical overview of the … at the JGI; and overview of the Community Science Program (CSP). A crucial job of the committee is to take the input from the CSP Proposal Study Panel on prioritization of CSP …