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… DAN: You’re listening to the US. .Department of Energy Joint Genome … industry can make many dozens of them. Some are going to be involved in antibiotic activity, some are going to be … of the opinion that on the geological timescale, that most bacterial natural product systems evolved, you know, a …
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… complexity At first glance, the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with … delicately above the leaf debris are revealed to be single bacterial cells, visible to the naked eye. The unusual size … before.” Characterizing the Giant Bacterium Volland got involved with the giant Thiomargarita bacteria when he …
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… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … in Nature and Medicine.” It’s obviously focused more on the bacterial side of the field, and it’s a little hard to find … DNA. And so if you can identify a gene that’s likely to be involved in secondary metabolism – production, say of a …
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… UDWARY: It’s been a while, but Natural Prodcast is back again for another round of episodes. If you stick around for … do the bioinformatics and to synthesize these results into publication? So there’s this really important because we … because they’re generally smaller proposal. They’re not as involved, I would say. And each call gets updated …
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… is Professor Cassandra Quave from Emory University, with joint appointments in the School of Medicine and College of … a check-up on me. And I wonder how that intersects with bacterial bioprospecting that is often done, where we’re … I think on COVID that we’re getting ready to submit for publication and have found some interesting hits for that as …
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… Hey, Alison Takemura: Hey, Dan. Dan Udwary: Today we’re going to talk to Kate Duncan. And Kate is– I should ask, you … is a whole bunch of information that maybe never makes its publication. And these are little tips, you know, how to … And there’s a group of PIs across the UK that were involved in the initial discussions. But we all nominated …
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… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … this molecule and predicting what kind of enzymes might be involved, and then being able to make those connections back … in a microalgae. There were four genes there. Not like a bacterial gene cluster, but they were still clustered in the …
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… Newly developed chemiluminescent biosensors shed light on how bacteria function and … colonization, which can affect pathogenic and symbiotic bacterial interactions with animals and plants, or cause … clinical isolates. As cyclic di-GMP also regulates enzymes involved in cellulose production in microbes, these …
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… DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural Prodcast– a podcast about … BARONA-GOMEZ: Yeah, so any metabolite, produced by bacterial or fungal metabolism by microbes, will have a … of natural product biosynthesis in bacteria ” The ActDES publication came out after we talked. It looks like a great …
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… Research in the Eloe-Fadrosh group focuses on using genome-resolved metagenomic approaches to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. We … focuses on the assembly of metagenomic sequence data into microbial genomes, which is of fundamental value to …
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… of Natural Prodcast. A little bit of a bonus episode, since I’m off schedule, but this is an important one that … And I think a lot of times, too, when we even look at publications, it’s always positive data, right? No one ever … million BGCs in the database on the release, and that’s the bacterial stuff. Could be more. [CHUCKLES] I’m not quite …
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