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Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a podcast about the science and scientists of secondary metabolism.  DAN: Hi … that’s really popped up at funding agencies and the popular news recently because a lot of soldiers in the Iraq and … Canada. I just got back from a conference in Canada on antimicrobial resistance sponsored by the Garner foundation. And …

… of metagenomes for signatures of viruses and novel microbial lineages, and reconstruct metabolic properties … within those genomes. Our aim is to more fully capture microbial and viral diversity, leading to a better understanding of microbial communities and ecosystem function.  The …

… demands of our users. … Download plant, algal, fungal and microbial genomes and metagenomes — top-quality genomic … provides tools for analyzing the functional capability of microbial communities based on their metagenome sequence, in … from genomes, metagenomes, and metatranscriptomes. It features over 15 million viral genomes and fragments, …

… into secondary metabolites? Kate Duncan: So I always liked science in school. I wouldn’t say I was one of these people … And sometimes, in terms of biological activities– like antimicrobial or something– sometimes a little difference is … of inclusion, there’s certain countries that are always featured in natural products and actinobacteria research. …

Genome Institute and head of the Secondary Metabolites Science Program at JGI, and also my boss, Nigel Mouncey. I … never forced it on me, but we always had these scientific news magazines lying around at home. And I would just pick … I did my undergraduate in microbiology and then PhD in microbial genetics in the UK. And came across to the US for …

… in the School of Medicine and College of Arts and Sciences. She’s an ethnobotanist and the herbarium curator … that we found, indeed, that both formulations had some antimicrobial properties. But the one that was used in … plants and bringing them back is not your jam, the good news is there’s this amazing resource that can be provided …

Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a podcast about the science and scientists of secondary metabolism.  DAN: Hey … Joint Genome Institute, or JGI. JGI is a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … right. So I did a PhD in microbiology at MIT, and I studied microbial ecology. I studied Vibrio species in the ocean, so …

JGI Mission As a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility supported by the Biological and … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley National … went on to advance basic science by sequencing scores of microbial species as well as several model organisms and …

… the field of biocatalysis and what needs to be done across science to to get a point where we can predict an enzymes … of the reaction and if there are certain sequence features that tell us about, or help us to predict where on … that are used to do these predictions. And if there’s some feature of how the sequences that are predicted that gives …