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… in rural England. I kind of always wanted to be a microbiologist. My dad was a microbiologist.  DAN: Oh, is that … funny because I – later on I worked with Bacillus for quite a while.  DAN: That’s cool that your dad inspired you … with a contract manufacturer to actually have them build a plant for production and fermentation and transfer that …

… where he is the PI of the Laboratory for Biosynthetic Studies. Brian and I are old friends and colleagues, having … they said, OK, now, you have to go get the molecules. So I built a program there to do that. Yeah. JACKIE WINTER: Yeah, … mammalian systems. But it allows us to assay on a single cell level against cell lines and against primary cells …

… the recording. But I recently changed the audio editing suite I use which had some nice magic that clean things up. … is a curated database of actinobacteria for evolutionary studies, and hopefully we can catch him again some time to … different perspectives– from the chemists on one side, microbiologists, and evolutionary biologists more recently– we …

… facilities at all the National Labs. BER also provides us guidance on what kinds of research to support and conduct. I … our eukaryotic genomes, all our eukaryotic genomes. Fungal plant, algal genomes, a lot of effort goes into generating … and coastal. But we’ve kind of shied away from the ocean. Microbes. We’ve done those in the past, but the DOE …

… of Natural Prodcast. A little bit of a bonus episode, since I’m off schedule, but this is an important one that … at how they were made was really interesting and intriguing to me. And I could combine my passions in different … And so we also sequence a lot of fungi, and we sequence plants. And so we started thinking about if we had a …

… the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , … M. polymorpha has been used as a model for evolutionary studies. Its place among early-diverging plant lineages … into genes critical for roles including plant growth and cell wall development.  M. polymorpha is also among one of …

… The Joint Genome Institute and the Molecular Foundry have launched a joint Critical Minerals and Materials proposal call . This represents a … The JGI supports remote users. Users conduct experiments in their own labs or collect field samples. Depending on the required capabilities, they then ship samples—such as DNA and …

… projects that address biological functions for biomanufacturing, critical minerals and materials, inter-organismal interactions, and predictive biology, … For the CSP Large Scale call, a Letter of Intent (LOI) is required by the due date printed below. Proposals will be …

… Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm plant host … feedstock crops. Summary A plant is like an office building, its roots are akin to the ground floor lobby. … example” of how a 1000 Fungal Genomes project can enable studies of plant root microbiome and other microbiomes by …

… cousins. So we both went to Scripps [Institution of Oceanography in San Diego] together. And I worked for Brad … or the genes that you are analyzing. And then we’re building phylogenies a lot, making phylogenetic trees, and … transcriptomics, metabolomics, and natural products in plants, fungi, and microorganisms. If you want to …

… The JGI’s Microbial Program focuses on using cutting-edge sequencing, annotation and analysis techniques to explore the vast … those associated with microeukaryotes. The program also studies giant viruses. Key research areas include … and archaea in their natural environments using single cell approaches. This includes linking strain-level genetic …