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… real legends of natural products, Professor Bill Fenical from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. Bill … animals, for example by dredging and all these kinds of techniques. But the ocean was just not considered to be of … from the ocean. We didn’t know whether to study bacteria, fungi, archaea, the whole range of microbial life. So, we …

… to environmental changes. With advanced mass spectrometry techniques and computational tools, the program supports … biological and environmental samples — including microbes, fungi, plants and soils. Through a combination of … The Metabolomics Program focuses on advancing tools and technologies to analyze metabolites in environmental …

… but proof of concept for the demonstration of a technology that would be applicable to DOE mission is … FICUS call with EMSL begin with a Letter of Intent (LOI) from a researcher, briefly describing the project … logging into the  EMSL User Portal . All proposals undergo technical review by JGI staff as well as staff at the other …

… Earth's microbial lineages through advanced genomic techniques and computational analysis: Through cutting-edge genomic techniques and computational approaches, we work to catalog … to adapt to live in Earth's most extreme environments, from deep-sea oceanic fluids to hypersaline lakes and …

… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant … activity teems beneath your feet. Both bacteria and fungi have genes that can break down plant fibers. But are …

… the University of Hawaii and moved there in the early ’60s from Berkeley to work on this new budding field of marine … NOAA has funded to really look at how we can use our gene technology to predict when blooms are going to happen, that … metabolomics, and natural products in plants, fungi, and microorganisms. If you want to collaborate, let …

… over our interview with Dr Elizabeth (or Betsy) Parkinson from Purdue University. She’s in the Department of Chemistry … So, I don't know how we start out. Where are we going to go from here? JACKIE: Well, how about you just give us a little … what DAP-seq is. [Note: Check out this JGI story on DAP-Seq technology.] BETSY PARKINSON: OK. DNA affinity purification …

… genome mining on more than 50,000 genomes that we derived from meta-genome sequences. As always, you’ll find … in the earlier primers. In bacteria, at least, and in most fungi, biosynthetic gene clusters, which are the genes that … service to the secondary metabolite community. What other techniques are there for finding these biosynthetic gene …

… Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the “chytrids”).  A collaborative … the University of California, Riverside and Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … Olpidium is a link in the evolution and transition of fungi from aquatic to terrestrial habitats. The work is part …

… Black fungi are microscopic and mighty. They survive everywhere from Antarctica to Joshua Tree National Park, despite … Selbmann and Claudia Coleine are working with scientists from around the world – and the JGI – to understand them …