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… DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural … the future. I highly recommend it. I’ll link to it in the show notes. Which I’ll remind you, you can always find at … a marine actinomycete bacterium. So they look kind of like fungi but also make these mycelia. They kind of look like …

… systems, sheds light on nutrient cycling, and leads to the discovery of new molecules and pathways. The JGI … and environmental samples using advanced liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS) based methods in … experimental samples, including organisms (e.g. microbes, fungi, plant), media in which they grow, as well as …

… fungal biology teaching labs. The purpose of the program is to: train students and professors in laboratory techniques and data analyses compile original data for … genome sequencing of new fungal species.  Students collect fungi, sterilize tissue, isolate genes and more. The …

… than 2,500 users that predominately come from the public sector: academic and government institutions — with … largely unknown and underutilized by industry. When Director Nigel Mouncey joined the JGI in 2017, he brought with … him 20 years of industry experience — and an opportunity to expand the JGI’s portfolio of user companies. Now the …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … need to test it. Some testing might be hard, depending on how you’re doing the testing. If you have a successful test, … been shared for a long time by many, many bacteria – and fungi and plants. And so that’s the power and the promise …

… published a paper in the journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that … also the chair of the JGI User Executive Committee, on how that study went from the lab to the classroom. …

… Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, … for self-defense. But the compounds may also be involved in how the fungi metabolize plant biomass, which could inform …

… at least 15 zealexins, they suspect there are even more to find. Zealexins are produced in every corn variety and … have now revealed that just a handful of enzymes are needed to transform zealexins and related precursors into a bonanza … the bioenergy crop switchgrass. The team confirmed just how important zealexins are to maize health. Infections with …

… cutting-edge sequencing, annotation and analysis techniques to explore the vast and diverse world of microbes. Studying … The program provides high-quality, large-scale genomic data to advance microbial research that drives sustainable … Program focuses on using advanced sequencing technologies to explore microbial diversity — with an emphasis on …

… data. We use multi-omics (metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, single cell genomics and phylogenomics) and machine learning to identify new divergent lineages and expand the Tree of Life. We then investigate the coding potential to find novel functions that may impact microbiome structure …

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