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… in Fort Collins. He’s part of a JGI-supported project studying the world’s rivers and their microbial communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River and how microbes might be influencing its health.  He …

… this, is that I don’t have an awareness of how to go about studying them. Like to me, fungi are, you know, how do you …

… and hot temperatures, sorghum plants can photosynthesize and thrive — some varieties grow their leafy stalks 16 …

… what season they should be collected, what girth or size of the branches should be, there are all these other …

… or an enhancer, an activator, to go ahead and, and synthesize those genes within a model organism like E.coli , and … would be really critical to these and has been a big driver for understanding this is if you’ve got this assembly … arose in evolution? DAN: Yeah, I think the important driver is to imagine if — let’s say you knew you had a …

Marcy. So I was wondering, how did you get interested in studying natural products?  MARCY: That is a great question … up with a double major in biology and ended up actually studying ethnobotany in Brazil.  And so I went to the Amazon … monocultures but the whole of the organ which is about the size of your pinky nail has maybe 50 to a hundreds of these. …

… actually a very large molecule. Very complicated to synthesize. And so synthesis wasn’t really possible. Eventually, … ALISON: Hmm, yeah, I guess this relates to when I was studying heterotrophic bacteria: the core genome and the …

… in natural products as an undergrad. So for me, it was studying sort of the interface of chemistry and biology … types of particulate like 2.5, 10 PPMs and just the size of the particle and how far they can actually travel. … new supercomputer called Dori. I think it’s a moderately sized machine. It’s not super huge, but it’s allowed us to …