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… DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural Prodcast, a … little vague to me. What do you mean by putting a bunch of tools in one package? DAN UDWARY: Oh, sure. So if I wanted … of the IMG data portal , which is a larger portal for microbial genomics. IMG stands for Integrated Microbial …

… crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… here today, and we wanted to talk to her about a whole list of things. So we have a Scripps background shared together, … that I’ve appreciated since starting my own group is these tools, in terms of looking at the chemistry produced by … And sometimes, in terms of biological activities– like antimicrobial or something– sometimes a little difference is …

… joined the JGI in 2017, he brought with him 20 years of industry experience — and an opportunity to expand the JGI’s portfolio of user companies. Now the Department of Energy is uniting … data repositories for genome information with analysis tools for mining and prediction The JGI works in partnership …

… DAN: Hello, everyone, and Welcome back for Episode 14 of Natural Prodcast . There’s been a lot going on, so I took … I did my undergraduate in microbiology and then PhD in microbial genetics in the UK. And came across to the US for … using these together along with all of our computational tools to really build out much more of an integrative …

… I mean, in terms of human evolution and knowledge, like discovering that the ocean is a really vibrant, vital place … powerful people. These were people that really controlled microbial drug discovery. And a guy like me, with no … for culturing, and then of course using modern phylogenetic tools measuring genes, the 16S gene, and comparing it with …

… DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural Prodcast, a … at some topic that I’m working with about now. I made a tree of different compounds, and I’d looked at it from an … more into the meta genome mining. We started to build the tools for natural product researchers that easily can …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a … we talked about sponges, go pull a sponge or extract some tree bark. And so you’re just taking something, you’re … more and hear more about what JGI and collaborators are discovering. DAN: Alright, well, I’m glad you’re on board, …

… do your organic reaction and see if it smells like a pine tree. Like there’s no cookie cutter reactions here, we’re … Canada. I just got back from a conference in Canada on antimicrobial resistance sponsored by the Garner foundation. And … and I’m really excited about it. Because now we have the tools through genomics, and metabolomics, to ask these …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a … lot about chemistry. And he has been a good friend in my life. And so I’m very happy to be here and have Eric sitting … learn how to make peptides, rationally. We’d find these tools, we’d understand them, and we’d apply them. And so, I …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science … The fungus is almost always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its influence on the … of interkingdom communication between the plant and fungus. Discovering how microbes can influence plant physiology …

… The focus of this group, in recent years, has been to bring … yeasts and algae previously with little to no genetic tools enabling heterologous expression and functional … integrated into a taxonomically diverse suite of microbial chassis strains for elevated opportunity for …