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… 11, 2022, in Cell Genomics , the team focused on Actinobacteria ( Actinomycetota ), a group of bacteria with diverse metabolic activities. Found in marine and terrestrial environments, actinobacteria play roles in both the carbon and nitrogen cycles, …

… chemical compounds that you find in plants, fungi and bacteria, basically all living things. When your crazy Aunt … I studied Vibrio species in the ocean, so heterotrophic bacteria. Now, we didn’t get into secondary metabolites … a chemical compound called geosmin that’s produced by soil bacteria that live all over the place. So that smell of rain …

… colleagues. Aaron is doing some cool stuff with cool bacteria that I’m fascinated to learn more about. He works … with methylotrophs, which are a group of carbon-fixing bacteria that I would say are are still fairly unexplored in … look at host pathogen interactions mostly with like enteric bacteria. And I really fell in love with the bacteria part …

… in the marine ecosystems and marine actinomycetes and cyanobacteria. And we thought we could also– let’s see what caves … And they were– so they were actually good environments for bacteria to live in. So we thought, well, let’s see. But … not fungal. Where else nature can you go see colonies of bacteria just growing? They’re not monocultures there. …

… are marine related, and so we can do some projects that are freshwater and coastal. But we’ve kind of shied away from …

… sequence to biological inference. … Genome sequences of key bacterial symbionts of entomopathogenic nematodes: …