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… is going to be just invaluable to the natural products community. It’s a big international community effort, and I want to say thank you, personally, … are already being built. But it is going to be the challenge of our age, I think. DAN:  Yeah, yeah. Definitely …

… separation of a biologically relevant unit from a microbial community, such as a microcolony, microbial aggregate, or a … the identification of active groups of organisms within a community. Individual samples are fractionated using a …

… for fungi. And we talk a lot about some of the technical challenges to that, most of which seem to be history.   I … would say that when I first started out the natural product community was almost 100% bacterial. Only people working in … very well.   DAN: Do you want to tell us about some of the challenges to working with fungi at least compared to …

So welcome to today's podcast. BETSY PARKINSON: Awesome. Thank you so much for having me. Really excited to be … to be able to predict which one it was. And one of the challenges, at least right now with thioesterase on these … an area that's really a huge area of unmet need within our community and thinking about how best to tackle these …

… sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk community sequencing (metagenomics) and single-cell … Testing the HCR-FISH+FACS targeted pipeline on North Sea metagenomes as a proof of principle, the team used a … to address pressing energy and environmental scientific challenges. … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of …

… on a pilot project with biology students from Boca Raton Community High School in Palm Beach County, Florida. The … Certificate of Education (AICE) Biology class at Boca Raton Community High School. “I can’t thank JGI enough for being … that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s Office of Science is the largest …

And today we’re going to talk to Ben Shen! ALISON: Awesome. Yeah, I’ve heard a lot of good things about Ben. Nice … experience somewhere else, or you know, you’ve run into challenges that demonstrate why this is so important. BEN:  … not only I say we were able to make use of it, but also the community can benefit from the technology. But even better, …

JGI User Executive Committee (UEC) represents the JGI user community and is responsible for providing input and advice … user meeting. The UEC also acts as a liaison to the user community and the broader scientific community and promotes communication and collaboration …

Yeah, I think I’ve made my point. They’re just all around awesome. I should point out that we also have a couple of … samples. And it has a bunch of databases, because it’s community-led, of people that have high-resolution data of … the ecosystem and the environment. And I think that’s the challenge. And it’s daunting, but, you know, there’s so much …