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… and where we are today. After that, we have lots of great conversations that we’ve already recorded with some … right. So I did a PhD in microbiology at MIT, and I studied microbial ecology. I studied Vibrio species in the ocean, so … of that, that most people, I think, believe now is that the communities where this happened have a tendency to be …

… Applications group explores the genetic makeup of natural microbial communities using a variety of cutting-edge approaches.  Our … To provide additional functional insights into microbial genomes, the JGI now uses laser microdissection to selectively isolate and sequence microbial aggregates after first imaging with various …

… exploration of energy and nutrient exchange, as well as microbial and plant responses to environmental changes. With … to analyze metabolites in environmental organisms, communities, and samples including state-of-the-art … systems can provide novel insights into the impact of microbial symbionts and their hosts on ecosystems.   …

… Microbial contributions to soil carbon storage during simulated range shifts of plant-fungal … Characterization of simplified soil communities with high and low carbon use efficiency across differing moisture treatments … and trophic interactions in Antarctic cryptoendolithic communities …

… Cooperative Biodiversity Groups, and it’s this great program funded by the National Institutes of Health … it was an amazing program. DAN:  Yeah, a lot of really great academics came out of that too. ROGER:  Many academics … to try and create an open source database of all known microbial natural products. So if you think about natural …

… scientists who also do genome mining. We’ve got a great, fun bunch of little shows lined up, and I’m really … oxidative conversions and do some really complicated carbon skeleton rearrangements, chemistry that we probably … of the IMG data portal , which is a larger portal for microbial genomics. IMG stands for Integrated Microbial …

… Two fanatic PhD students. Alison Takemura: It sounds great. Yeah, it sounds like it was really needed at that … IMG kind of hooks into IMG’s data. IMG being Integrated Microbial Genomics at JGI, a large data set of bacterial … just been looking at like 16S taxonomic profiles of these communities looking at who is in there, but never like what …

… and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, but varied. They’re a great way to see how climate change affects freshwater …

… accelerate progress in the Design-Build-Test-Learn cycle, helping researchers optimize genetic systems. By … a stepwise approach for strain development, requiring cycles of construct design, building, and characterization. … Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes …

… The JGI supports the entire data life cycle — from experimental design to reuse. Armed with the …