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Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) that consists of coordinated hands-on experiments across fungal biology … genomic resources empower students through isolation and genome sequencing of new fungal species.  Students collect … … Beyond providing a scalable solution for production of high-quality fungal reference genomes, this program is an …

The Fungal & Algal Program explores the vast diversity of fungi and algae to unlock their potential for bioenergy, … on large-scale sequencing efforts that survey the vast phylogenetic and ecological diversity of fungi and algae, … tools to enhance functional studies. These efforts seek to improve understanding of how fungi and algae contribute to …

JGI Mission As a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility supported by the … U.S. Department of Energy.   The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing, DNA design and synthesis, … are at the core of many environmental processes, and the genetic makeup of microbial species and communities forms …

And I really dove into microbial physiology and microbial genetics, and really away from chemistry and synthesizing … we’ll say methyl so we call them methylotrophs [ muh-thigh-luh-trophs ]. This is like, every square is a … up on previous Natural Prodcast episodes  here . Show Notes Publication: Suo Z et al. A Mesorhizobium japonicum quorum …

… mining and the directions it might take in the future. I highly recommend it. I’ll link to it in the show notes. … of it. So it wasn’t only chemistry or only biochemistry or genetics. It was also ecology. It was also evolution. It was … Usually, in a lot of cases, we still have to go through publications to get proteins, and their functions, and all …

To expand access to integrated data, improve tools and infrastructure as well as ensure cohesive data standards, the JGI partners with a number of facilities.  … Through its partnership with NERSC and the … of new informatics tools specifically optimized for high-performance computing environments. … KBase is a …

… develop computational approaches to sift through thousands of metagenomes for signatures of viruses and novel microbial … Ladau, J. et al. (2019)  Spatial, Temporal, and Phylogenetic Scales of Microbial Ecology . Trends Microbiol. … Microbiology , 15032. 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2015.32 … Selected Publications … For further details, please reach out to the …

Secondary Metabolites Program focuses on the exploration of secondary metabolites across bacteria, fungi, algae and … uncover these hidden biochemical resources by exploring the genetic pathways responsible for their synthesis. The … factors and determine their binding sites across multiple genomes. Computational prediction of heterologous …

Our lab is using mass spectrometry based metabolite profiling to provide direct biochemical datasets to improve our understanding of microbial metabolism. Of particular interest is …

… … DAN UDWARY: Hey everyone and welcome back to a new session of Natural Prodcast. I’ve got two things I wanted to tell … we didn’t even sequence the whole genome. We just did a low-resolution shotgun pass where we sequenced 500 runs. And … Very familiar with working actinomycetes. We can also genetically manipulate them. We can do strain improvements. …