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You know, at that time, it was just [that] the chemistry of organisms was fascinating to people. And in many ways, the … raised in Hawaii, I love being in the ocean all the time interacting, you know, with organisms in the ocean, because … a sophomore in college, we probably all remember, probably, within the first week of school, you know, our instructor …

Every approved proposal starts with a User Agreement — before any work can begin, including the submission of samples for … requires completion of work on all approved proposals within 36 months from the approved start date. Additional …

… for fundamental growth, provide critical advantages to the organisms producing them, and are often involved in defense, … algae and plants. These compounds are key to organisms' interactions with their environments and with each other, …

By sequencing and analyzing the genomes of these organisms, the program investigates the biological … improve understanding of how fungi and algae contribute to ecosystems and industries. The program also explores … fungal genomes from across the Fungal Tree of Life, from an international research team in collaboration with the JGI. …

… microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. We use multi-omics (metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, … 255-255 Schulz et al. (2020) Giant virus diversity and host interactions through global metagenomics. Nature. 578 …

… genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. We develop computational approaches to sift through … lineages, and reconstruct metabolic properties encoded within those genomes. Our aim is to more fully capture … Team    … Nayfach S et al.  A Genomic Catalog of Earth’s Microbiomes .  Nature Biotechnology . 2020 Nov 9. Vyshenska, …

… a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi … of analysis is the ability to see how microbial communities interact; beyond bacteria, these samples harbored fungal … and fungi identified in this study was the ability of these organisms to degrade aromatic compounds from burned …

… how they evolve. ALISON TAKEMURA: So Nadine, what got you interested in studying natural products? NADINE ZIEMERT: … just from one angle, right? So I mean, if you would just be within the chemists or just be within a group of … people, lake sediments. We have microbiomes from different organisms, including the human microbiome. We just really …

… back to Natural Prodcast. This continues the series of interviews we recorded at the Society for Industrial … mean, we found sometimes enzymes that are the most similar within our libraries can have drastically different … is a lot of literature around enzymes from thermophilic organisms where their peak activity is at an elevated …

… of National Prodcast. This continues our little section on international genome miners, and today we have Francisco … for example, if you are a tryptophan-producing organism but you are grown on medium without tryptophan, … symbiont, for example, of an ant. So these are very stable interactions that have been evolving for 300 million years, …

Quite a lot of people in Europe do this traveling by train inter-railing around countries. And I was actually in … produced by microbes, they’re pretty adaptable to other organisms. And we’ve done that with microalgae. They’re … linking like with like. And so if you know any one of those within that cluster, you can begin to infer the function of …

… you. Anyway…I’m really happy today to be handing over our interview with Dr Elizabeth (or Betsy) Parkinson from Purdue … these hormones actually oftentimes will bind to receptors within biosynthetic gene clusters. Specifically, these are … to play with that a little bit. JACKIE: So I guess the organisms you're working with, to see how they respond, …