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… postdoc Panama as part of the international cooperative biodiversity group (ICBG) based in Panama and was dual there … what we know is they’re quite selective in some way for antifungal activity. They are also, some of them, are … looking at the tropics because of this immense amount of biodiversity.  What we don’t do is spend a lot of time at …

… not enough time and money. I mean, we have a huge marine fungal project in collaboration with Bill Fenical at Scripps. So we’re looking at biosynthesis of marine fungal metabolites. We’re also looking– now we’re started a … keep chugging on putting in the rest of the archaea and fungal genomes and then work on metagenomes. So yeah. So …

… it has a really interesting biosynthetic pathway because fungal genes are cool. And if you like fungal genes, you should go back and listen to the Nancy … Yeah, bacteria sound like a good place, to me, to look for diversity because there are so many bacteria, because it is …

… I’m talking about is called the Convention on Biological Diversity . And there’s something called the Nagoya Protocol … because if you look at the 36 hotspots, or terrestrial biodiversity hotspots that we have on Earth, most of those … could be used to treat these highly resistant bacterial and fungal pathogens. And we’ve actually just wrapped up a year, …

… research.  These efforts include exploration of the global diversity of alternative genetic codes (Science 2014), …  39(1):105-114. Schulz F, et al. (2020) Giant virus diversity and host interactions through global metagenomics. … uncovers gaps in amplicon-based detection of microbial diversity.  Nature Microbiol .  15032 Eloe-Fadrosh EA, et …

… you to get a bird’s-eye perspective on the biosynthetic diversity element of these genomes. And you see how they’re– … I think, is a handy unit to be able to study biosynthetic diversity. There is no precise definition, like where to … are protecting the plants against pathogens. So usually fungal or oomycete pathogens. In this case they worked on a …

… on the largest analysis of 5mC distribution across the fungal tree of life to date, involving more than 500 species … one reference genome for every family of fungi, the 1000 Fungal Genomes initiative of the U.S. Department of Energy … User Facility, and others like it, are uncovering the true diversity of the fungal kingdom. The abundance of fungal …

… The Fungal & Algal Advisory Committee is chartered to offer … Fungal & Algal Program User Advisory Committee …

… And I think also the quality that we provide. So for fungal and for a lot of our eukaryotic genomes, all our eukaryotic genomes. Fungal plant, algal genomes, a lot of effort goes into … proposals that are really multifaceted, that do request a diversity of the different capabilities that we have, that …

… program aims to tap into the largely unexplored biochemical diversity within secondary metabolites, expanding their …