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The Synthetic Biology lab is divided into a DNA synthesis production group and a synthetic biology … Our production group operates as user facility that aims to provide access to state-of-the-art DNA synthesis and … design with scaling the production of large, difficult to synthesize constructs such as those involving biosynthetic …

… … Dan Udwary: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural … that, OK, I find 25 gene clusters, there must be 25 new compounds. Or everything that has similarity to a gene … are protecting the plants against pathogens. So usually fungal or oomycete pathogens. In this case they worked on a …

… … DAN UDWARY: Hey everyone and welcome back to a new session of Natural Prodcast. I’ve got two things I … So we started to see this potential of looking for compounds based on these gene clusters. And that was my job … colors. I mean, where else in nature– and they’re not fungal. Where else nature can you go see colonies of …

DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural … plants and might actually be producing molecules that are helpful to the plants. And so, understanding those broader … it has a really interesting biosynthetic pathway because fungal genes are cool. And if you like fungal genes, you …

… now I’m working on this the afternoon of the day I’m due to release it, which is not ideal for me keeping myself on … products chemistry, and he has a project with the JGI to synthesize the genes for and explore the chemistry of quorum … Seattle . And she studies bacteria that grow on one-carbon compounds like methanol and methane. And I really dove into …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … like synthetic chemistry effort to create a bunch of novel compounds that actually didn’t pan out. DAN: And there are … outside of the JGI to come to us with projects that will help us actually drive this strategic thrust that we’re …

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… and Sciences. She’s an ethnobotanist and the herbarium curator there, with a broad range of experimental work on plants … what made you interested in plants and the natural compounds that they make? CASSANDRA QUAVE: Yeah, so I mean … could be used to treat these highly resistant bacterial and fungal pathogens. And we’ve actually just wrapped up a year, …

Hey, everyone. I’ve got a great episode for you here today. We got the opportunity to talk to one of the real … question, are these plants and animals making chemical compounds in a way that’s similar or analogous to what’s … time, we found another molecule. This time it was from a fungal strain collected from sediments in the ocean. No, …

… associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm plant host health. The Science Researchers … other plant-associated fungi. Their analysis identified fungal gene families that help determine if these fungi act … boost yields for both food and for candidate bioenergy feedstock crops. Summary A plant is like an office building, its …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … so we’ve got glycosides being made into sugar-containing compounds, and terpenes come from isoprenes, and polyketides … of weird growths on livestock due to you know, bacterial or fungal infections. Yeah, okay. So he identified these things …

… four forests, researchers have leveraged data from the 1000 Fungal Genomes project to form new connections between fungal guilds, genes and … deliver those nutrients to tree roots and soil. These fungi help shape a forest’s ecology. They store carbon and cycle …