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… the series of interviews we recorded at the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) Natural … talking with a lot of people who actually have been classically trained in synthetic chemistry as were you and then … we have with these enzymes, too, so the more robust, the better. JACKIE WINTER: Nice. DAN UDWARY: That makes sense. …
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… genome miners use, including antiSMASH, MIBiG, and newer efforts, like BiG-scape and BiG-SLiCE, and now the BiG-FAM … a bad location for a little baby. Rooming in, is what they call it, right? Alison Takemura: Yeah. Crashing. Maybe it’s … for destroying my academic career, because things are much better now. Marnix Medema: Well, I had no idea, Dan. I’m so …
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… … DAN: Hey, everybody. Welcome back for another episode of Natural Prodcast. Right now I’m … and explore the chemistry of quorum sensing systems, specifically the acyl homoserine lactones. If you listened to … start to use the DNA sequence to predict or just understand better the language of microbial cell-cell communication. …
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Data Policy. It is our mission to support open data and information sharing. We also recognize the need to have a … research data and analysis products (referred to as “data” for the remainder of this policy) produced through all user … away from producing use-restricted data. JGI proposals typically include multiple projects of different types which can …
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… great group of biologists that know what they’re doing much better than I ever can at the level that we’re working. And … and the bacteria and how the chemistry is going back and forth between them is part of what fascinates me about what … is a great question because my path has been what I would call circuitous. I didn’t follow the traditional sort of …
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… tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it … than 90 percent of the microbe’s dry weight. In order to better harness these gobs of energy, a team of researchers … , the scientists thus set out to identify which sgRNA sequences were reliable. In an elegant, quantitative screen, …
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… material of uncultivated taxa of interest. One such effort is targeted at environmental cells that are from … genomes are critical to serve as phylogenetic anchors for metagenomes studies. While uncovering the metabolic … based on annotation may not be sufficient. A more recent effort in the Woyke lab is therefore focused on the …
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It’s been a while, but Natural Prodcast is back again for another round of episodes. If you stick around for the … hear about are some more of the details around that. Specifically, we’re going to talk about JGI’s Community Science … JGI’s mission is broadly focused on biological research to better understand energy and environment, and natural …
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… welcome, Nadine. ALISON TAKEMURA: What is the big picture for you in your lab? NADINE ZIEMERT: Big picture, I want to … and then trying to see if the trees make sense, biologically. So if I can see patterns in that certain clades have … wrong data, wrong names with things. I think it could be better. That is a challenge. And otherwise, I don’t know. I …
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… … DAN: Hello, everyone, and Welcome back for Episode 14 of Natural Prodcast . There’s been a lot … you, you’ll be able to articulate that to people maybe even better than I can. NIGEL MOUNCEY: Yeah, absolutely. No, … DAN: Excellent, Yeah. OK, cool. So then what specifically about natural products? What got you in that …
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… genetics (RB-TnSeq), and computational genomics to better understand the plant-associated terrestrial world. … experimental characterization methods, in addition to bioinformatics tools to elucidate phage function in this … responses … Selected Publications … Research Team Alumni … For further details, please reach out to …
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Mexico, and an incredibly bright guy who’s been thinking for a long time about the evolution and natural products … metabolism, and natural products, or metabolites, were basically interchangeable terms in terms of common usage. And I … that are natural to this complex, then we might have a better understanding of what is what. This is not new. It …
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