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… and enzyme systems to do synthetic analoging of some really complex bioactive natural product molecules. It’s a … time now and almost ready for a real presentation to the world. … But, meanwhile, I’ve been sitting on all these … group and do some chemistry and get around pharmacological problems. But we wrote a review article that’s actually …
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… As part of the ongoing partnership between DOE JGI and UC Merced to promote diversity and inclusion in science and … receive from our faculty.” Cristhian and Bryan interned with Zhong Wang and Tanja Woyke, respectively. Both of their …
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… week is Professor Cassandra Quave from Emory University, with joint appointments in the School of Medicine and … and friends as a way to introduce them to the field. I really can’t recommend it enough to this audience. The … as well just from being on Twitter. It’s this weird virtual world where I’m like, oh– DAN UDWARY: For sure, yeah. I told …
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… a User Facility means that scientists from all over the world bring us big problems related to energy and the environment – problems … and helping you sleep at night (I’m not sure if that’s a real example), she’s talking about natural products, even … and start to cover the basics in this field. This, along with parts 2 and 3, should be a great place to start if you …
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… cool things you’re doing now? MARCY: Sure. So my lab has really converged on the study of host-microbe chemistry. And … massive scale. And of course, that brings about massive problems just as much as it brings about massive data into … Don’t shortchange JGI! DAN: JGI is great, but we’re not solving that problem. MARCY: I’m just– I’m not sure. There …
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… The exponential growth of DNA sequencing data, coupled with recent computational technology advances in management, … of data science in tackling grand challenges in Biology, with a special focus on microbiome research. These efforts … Science 2018, Molecular Cell 2019) and massive reconstruction of genomes from uncultivated microbes (Nature 2019). …
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… As a National User Facility, the JGI serves more than 2,500 users that predominately come … the public sector: academic and government institutions — with capabilities that had remained largely unknown and … JGI has a key role to play in providing high-quality, structured and curated data to support AI applications. In an …
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… here today. We got the opportunity to talk to one of the real legends of natural products, Professor Bill Fenical … got busy and I started to create a program that involves researching the local marine environment. I went out and … processes with plants and animals, really, all over the world. We used ships. We used land-based marine labs. We …
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… During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research projects, hone … Evolution of the Mitochondria Internship … Implementing a Scalable JGI-RQC Pipeline on the Cloud …
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… a liver toxin when humans accidentally eat it, but it has a really fun and interesting biosynthetic pathway, and I’ll … sponges. It’s an area – there’s some good groups around the world that focus on sponges. And so I feel like for the most … because there’s probably thousands of groups working on solving that problem in one way or another, currently. But …
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… of viruses and novel microbial lineages, and reconstruct metabolic properties encoded within those genomes. Our aim is to more fully capture … our understanding of microbial ecology and metabolism by elucidating the functional potential of hard-to-culture … isotopes from labeled nutrients into biomass. When paired with metagenomics, qSIP can decipher active microbial …
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… of secondary metabolism. Hey everybody, this is Dan with episode 13 of National Prodcast. This continues our … this is the podcast for you. A lot of this is based on a really great paper that came out in 2020 where this is all … green at the time and had some really tedious technical problems with editing the recording. But I recently changed …
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