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… than it is now. Or a little more– yeah, put more rationale into drug discovery by knowing what these things actually do … see how much you can actually learn about it if you look into it from different fields and not just from one angle, … and I noticed how much I actually can learn just by really digging into the data and understanding what’s going on …

I did my undergraduate in microbiology and then PhD in microbial genetics in the UK. And came across to the US for … thought I’d take an academic job then, but I ended up going into industry. Saw a job at Roche, and that was to work with … firstly set up a baseline process. And then really dig deeper into both aspects of the strain, as well as the …

Metagenomic datasets could help map out microbial diversity hotspots Over the past few decades, … to curate and cultivate what is still unknown.  “We took a deep dive into over 1.8 million bacterial and archaeal genomes to see …

… the user programs at the JGI, and I’m also the head of the microbial genome program. And I’m a scientist here. And have … genomes. Fungal plant, algal genomes, a lot of effort goes into generating these data sets. There’s a lot of manual … a focus within BER anymore. We really focus on terrestrial ecosystems, but we work in coastal environments, brackish …

… coexist is key for understanding their impact on wider ecosystems, but these symbiotic interactions are difficult … to the global carbon cycle. Archaea are key players in this deep biosphere. They have adapted to acquire carbon … these complex symbioses between organisms feeds into a better understanding of nutrient cycling across the …

Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm microbial diversity is wilder than ever. Imagine researchers … things when it comes to energy cycles — turning biomass into things like ethanol or hydrogen, or solar energy into … could be three or four or five or tenfold more out there.” Digging Further into an Array of Diversity While the team …

… always wanted to write a book but it’s really hard to break into that area. I mean you have to secure an agent and … that we found, indeed, that both formulations had some antimicrobial properties. But the one that was used in … I think could be leveraged better could be perhaps to take deeper looks at the interactions that organisms have, not …