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… exerted by viruses. Research in the viral genomics group aims at improving our collective understanding of … impacts of viral infections. The Viral Genomics Group is hosted within the Environmental Genomics group . Research Team … is active when/where, and how? ). The JGI Viral Genomics group attempts to address this question in natural soil …

… microbiome structure and biogeochemical cycles. Research Team    … a treasure trove full of novel genes ready to be tapped for downstream applications. … potential biological threats in environmental samples: Our team develops and implements advanced methods for rapid …

… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes … in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that there is a striking … dataset was particularly important for characterizing fungal genes, because, unlike bacteria, they often carry …

… where I was a graduate student. Aflatoxin, of course, is a fungal natural product which is a liver toxin when humans … in any living organism are proteins, which are made up of chains of amino acids. “Peptide” is just another word … way of making proteins, with a ribosome. Then, some other enzymes chop the protein into smaller pieces, and other …

… in the model fungus  Neurospora crassa . The Science A team led by researchers at the University of California, … of which contain a wide array of plant cell-wall degrading enzymes (PCWDEs) that allow them to efficiently break down … This first paper integrating multi-omics data from this JGI fungal ENCODE proposal was  recently published in the  …

… So really happy to have you here today. There’s a couple of things I want to make sure that we talk about. You … time, we found another molecule. This time it was from a fungal strain collected from sediments in the ocean. No, … 20S proteasome. The proteasome in the cell is a bundle of enzymes that is used to degrade proteins, peptides, that are …

… together. It’s been kind of a theme, I think, in the last couple of conversations that we’ve had on this podcast, the … up or if they were slowly ticking away metabolically, way down under the ocean in Antarctica. Dan Udwary: Right, … So you’re taking each ion, each metabolite, and you’re breaking it into pieces. And then you’re comparing those …

… Research in the Eloe-Fadrosh group focuses on using genome-resolved metagenomic approaches … and ecosystem function.  The Environmental Genomics group also hosts the Viral Genomics group . Research Team    … monitoring, bioremediation, and the discovery of novel enzymes and bioactive compounds. …

… Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal … mycorrhizal genomes. With so many fungal  genomes , the team conducted a large-scale comparison, charting several … For example, the number of plant cell wall-degrading enzymes such as ligninases and cellulases were much lower in …

… other plant-associated fungi. Their analysis identified fungal gene families that help determine if these fungi act … these other plant-fungal relationships, an international team led by graduate student Fantin Mesny in Stéphane Hacquard’s group at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research …

… some of these enormous genes that encode these very large enzymes. And I was like, OK, wow, these are really cool. And … antiSMASH, and I thought that was really a nice example of teamwork and combining things that another group has … are protecting the plants against pathogens. So usually fungal or oomycete pathogens. In this case they worked on a …

… term you prefer. In this episode we’re going to finish up by talking about the modern, post-golden age history of … Right. Yeah. DAN: Alright, so a subset of proteins are enzymes. Enzymes are proteins that do chemical reactions. … understanding it because it’s an assembly line. You just go down the string of beads and each bead is doing a chemical …