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… advisor.  Brad: Oh my goodness. Those were good years, Dan!  Dan: For too many years. Brad: And now look, … cool because the work has gone so much more than just identifying genes to that toxin, but it’s opened up this whole … underwater vehicles. Brad: You did not! Alison: I did, like 2016, I think. Yes, it was just so funny to hear how they’re …

… has a book called The Plant Hunter and I’ve read all 400 pages of her life and I feel like I have a new friend that … And so a path opened itself to me, just before my senior year of college, a chance to go to the Amazon and work with … they were starting to show the ability to really identify, and get crystal structures out of these mixed powders, …

… scientific approaches to these challenges.     Our homepage video includes external footage from:  University of … publish the sequence analysis of the target chromosomes 5, 16, and 19, in the journal Nature . Following this … for JGI resources and are engaged in active projects—each year. In addition, several thousand data users worldwide …

… in the Peace Corps – I was there for about three and a half years – I worked at a high school. And one of the things … do you check if they’re there? Like we always talk about 16S for bacteria, but we don’t talk about it so easily with … today who said “Oh, the ITS which we thought would identify to species”… he’s now found that some fungi have …

… been in – working in secondary metabolism for almost 20 years now. Which when I did the math, that was a surprise to … data that the JGI produces to try to find and identify natural product biosynthetic gene clusters and to do … heard of the Salem Witch Trials back in the what? 15th, 16th century.  ALISON: Yeah, I lived in Massachusetts for a …

I mean, I am– yeah. I just got the position like three years, four years– four years ago I think. Yeah. Yeah, Paul … all these very, very related genomes, right – on their 16S level, they’re almost identical! But seeing all these … tools for natural product researchers that easily can identify secondary metabolite pathways in metagenomes, which is …

Foster and too many others to name at JGI for the last two years or so. SMC is now released and ready for the public to … about natural products. So in Brad’s lab, I worked on identifying and characterizing haloperoxidases from bacteria. And … you go to the website, which is smc.jgi.doe.gov , the stats page is showing me that right now we have just over a …

… of genome mining, which is using DNA sequence to identify and interpret biosynthetic, secondary metabolism … that, I wanted to tell a quick story. Looking back, the year was probably 2010, 2011, I was a, uh- actually, I’ve … microbiome field, many people had just been looking at like 16S taxonomic profiles of these communities looking at who …

… of the research that you’ve been doing the last couple of years. And I really want to make sure that we talk about … But thankfully that worked out. And I spent 30, 40 years diving all over the world and bringing samples into … course using modern phylogenetic tools measuring genes, the 16S gene, and comparing it with everything that’s known. So …

… with advanced computer skills. During the summer of 2016,  DOE CGSF recipient Adam Riesselman of Harvard …

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… we are today, recording today. BRIAN BACHMANN: Yeah, in the year 2000. And I was trying to figure out what to do with … out gene clusters maybe once a month at most. Maybe twice a year, a full gene cluster would come out. And it was a very … how much blood, sweat, and tears went into trying to identify that you had the right cluster before you sent it out for …