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… the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of managerial experience from almost 20 years in the … focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of novel production organisms and fermentation processes for vitamins, insecticides, fungicides, platform chemicals, cosmetics and new crop …

… 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to support scientists around the world. Most of those researchers send their samples in from afar, … with names — but not doors — and robots handle a bunch of benchwork. …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often loosely … kingdoms, including animals, plants, bacteria, archaea and fungi. We thought this kind of analysis would provide a …

… A collaborative team led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis … in France and Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … aims to provide genomic information for every family of fungi. In the following guest piece, JGI user Dr. Tan …

… researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use … process called fermentation. To better understand the range of bacteria and archaea that rely on this form of metabolism, researchers recently compiled a list of with …

… technologies provide opportunities for students and professors alike The Science In  PLoS Pathogens , a team of faculty and researchers describe a workforce development … students developing skills in fungal biology and genomics. Fungi can be better understood through reference genomes, …

… fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science.” Less than 6,200 researchers working in 21 … genomes of Dothideomycetes, the largest class of fungi, by lifestyles. Additionally, as part of an …

… Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … The planet’s microbial diversity is immense, yet much of it remains unknown. For more than a decade, researchers … resource, but also yielding and supporting many high-impact publications ,” emphasized Markus Göker, who managed the …

… schedule. This should be coming out on the first Thursday of the month, just like I promised. Now I just have to make … Parkinson from Purdue University. She’s in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and … and I learned a lot. But oftentimes, it would be very frustrating how many steps it would take to actually get to …

… user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most … growth and reproduction—most organisms produce a set of "secondary metabolites," chemical compounds that often … more than 13 million BGCs in the catalog at the time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence …