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… DAN UDWARY: Hey everyone. Welcome back to Natural Prodcast. This continues the … can it actually turn over? ALISON NARAYAN: So that’s an excellent question. I think that we need enzymes with good … made it onto our list is because we wanted to have diversity. And so we wanted a profile across that protein …

… of Natural Prodcast. We’ve both taken a little bit of time off. Genome Insider still has been coming out, but I … what genome mining is, if I want to explain that to someone who doesn’t know much about genetics or anything else, … Yeah, bacteria sound like a good place, to me, to look for diversity because there are so many bacteria, because it is …

… The Fungal & Algal Program explores the vast diversity of fungi and algae to … and advanced genomic analysis to explore the rich diversity of fungi and algae. These organisms play a … carbon management, and environmental sustainability. Fungi, with million species, are essential for ecosystem …

… DAN UDWARY: Hey, everyone! Welcome to the “Self Promotion Episode” of Natural … to San Diego that– not in the same car, but at the same time. JACLYN WINTER: Yeah. I had the incubator in my car. … been working on that we sequenced the genome. And it has 17 resistant genes on a plasmid that’s actually– it’s pretty …

… The Community Science Program (CSP) provides the scientific community at large with access to high-throughput sequencing, synthesis, and … All proposals first undergo technical review by JGI staff, … order by the reviewers. The ranked proposal list, along with a recommendation from JGI management, is then forwarded …

… The JGI’s Metabolomics Program works to uncover the roles of small molecules in biological systems, linking them with genomic data to enhance our understanding of genome … and ecosystems at the molecular level. Integrating genomics with metabolomics fuels the discovery  of novel metabolites, …

… him, I was working on the natural product dioxin ubiquinone, which actually comes from a marine bacterium. And so, I … into natural products by starting out in synthesis and then discovering more-- [LAUGHS] I don't know, practical or … So chemicals are their way of talking. You bring up an excellent point though, and I think this is an area that is a …

… too. DAN UDWARY: Oh, yeah. ALISON TAKEMURA: My big headphones. DAN UDWARY: I’m sitting on my bed in Paris, pointing a … I get that, too, so. But so I’m over sensitive to it sometimes. Well, welcome, Nadine. ALISON TAKEMURA: What is the … see. So it doesn’t seem to be a correlation between biodiversity in taxa and biodiversity in secondary metabolites. …

… Biology is currently experiencing a revolution brought on by rapid developments in genomics and other omics technologies.  The exponential growth of DNA sequencing data, coupled with recent computational technology advances in management, … research.  These efforts include exploration of the global diversity of alternative genetic codes (Science 2014), …

…   The JGI’s Secondary Metabolites Program focuses on the exploration of … program aims to tap into the largely unexplored biochemical diversity within secondary metabolites, expanding their potential … (BGCs), advancing pathway analysis, optimization of cell- and cell free-based expression platforms, tools and …

… As a National User Facility, the JGI serves more than 2,500 … the public sector: academic and government institutions — with capabilities that had remained largely unknown and … industry. When Director Nigel Mouncey joined the JGI in 2017, he brought with him 20 years of industry experience — and …