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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 …

… of challenges that usually lead to surprises and really great discoveries! And Eric’s done an awesome job, in that … . We also talked about Eric’s mentor, the late great John Faulkner, and Eric told us a story about how John … they would not have that name.  DAN:  I think that was a great explanation. Where do you see your lab going in the …

… 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.   …

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 …

JGI and LanzaTech, a Skokie, Illinois-based company that recycles carbon emissions to make fuels and chemicals, improving air …

… went on to advance basic science by sequencing scores of microbial species as well as several model organisms and … of microbial and fungal metabolism necessary to design communities, new strains, or enzymes to convert plant … to understand biogenic contributions to the global nutrient cycles, as well as atmospheric particle formation and …

… 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 …

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 …

… of research related to DOE’s missions in bioenergy, carbon cycling and biogeochemistry. In complement to … that cross the boundaries of the Plant, Fungal, Algal, Microbial, Metagenome, Metabolomics, Secondary Metabolites, …