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… and dynamic metabolite networks of environmental microbes and how they transform their environment. Research Team    …

… of Utah in the Department of Chemistry. So welcome. DAN: How do we introduce Aaron? JACKIE: How would you like to be … could imagine if you have two colonies of bacteria in the soil or something and they’re competing with each other, if … ecology community to be able to better predict how their microbes are interacting with each other from sequence …

… work on all kinds of organisms, from plants and fungi to microbes and viruses. Listen in to explore the data that illuminates biology, and hear how it could power our future. …

… listener, then you’ll recognize this material, though my show is a little more free-form, and this is the longer cut … where smaller proposals may be a fit. Still not 20 many microbes. We still we work in plates, right? We’re a high … that’s what we want to generate. Just to have the largest impact in the broader research community really. MENAKA …

… if they are of relevance to bioenergy-related feedstock crops or model plants. Projects targeting marine systems …

… is also twofold but for different reasons to learn about how nature builds molecules because nature does this with … ask questions about what don’t we know about this molecule. How do we discover more about what it can do, and as … them to making a compound, do you also take into account how are they going to behave in certain solvents or certain …

… precursors into a bonanza of diverse structures. The Impact Zealexins belong to a class of chemicals called … many plants in addition to maize, including the bioenergy crop switchgrass. The team confirmed just how important zealexins are to maize health. Infections with …

… ask the first question. Kate, can you tell me the story of how you got into secondary metabolites? Kate Duncan: So I … what’s important in terms of the chemistry produced by microbes. And by what’s important, I mean, like, where … data set, and then there’s how to access that and what impacts it in terms of the ecosystem and the environment. …

… for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A … to first target cells from communities of uncultivated microbes, and then efficiently retrieve and characterize their genomes. The Impact Despite great strides in generating genome sequences …