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… The guest we have this week is Professor Cassandra Quave from Emory University, with joint appointments in the School … I think on COVID that we’re getting ready to submit for publication and have found some interesting hits for that as … compound is not the answer. Some cases, it’s actually multiple compounds acting in synergy which is scientifically …

… that support user analysis of biogeochemically-relevant pathways, enabling modeling of microbiomes based on … regulation, and noncoding RNAs in microbiomes. The insights from this work have the potential to drive innovations in … of complete or near-complete population genomes directly from the environment. These advances have led to …

… Science 2017, Nature Microbiology 2018), discovery of new genes with important biotechnological applications (e.g., … Molecular Cell 2019) and massive reconstruction of genomes from uncultivated microbes (Nature 2019). Other projects in … of Human Microbiomes Reveal Thousands of Small, Novel Genes. Cell 178(5):1245-1259 Nayfach S, et al, (2019) New …

… such effort is targeted at environmental cells that are from candidate phyla, major branches in the phylogenetic … J. Cultivation and sequencing of rumen microbiome members from the Hungate1000 Collection.” Nat Biotechnol 36(4): … Z. & Rubin E.M. Metagenomic discovery of biomass-degrading genes and genomes from cow rumen. Science 331, 463-7 (2011). …

… Laboratory. Being a User Facility means that scientists from all over the world bring us big problems related to … so it’s some kind of – Is it a compound that helps them from drying out? Or… What is it? DAN:  Yeah I don’t know! … ALISON: Okay. We’re looking at a schematic of different pathways in a microbial cell, it looks like. It could be a …

… provides customized analysis, the JGI also participates in publication of results. Go here for additionial information, … The ranked proposal list, along with a recommendation from management at the JGI and the other participating …

… guest piece, postdoctoral researcher Joseph Napier from the Juenger lab and computational biologist Paul … biofuel yield through a changing future. Switchgrass has multiple naturally occurring ploidy levels, called … Where did the 8X variant come from? Did they arise multiple times or does their broad distribution indicate …

… species.  Students collect fungi, sterilize tissue, isolate genes and more. The metadata then goes into iNaturalist. … selected for sequencing 16 genomes released 20 members from 15 institutions 300+ students 800+ iNaturalist … sequencing and tissue preparation), allowing participation from a growing audience. For consistency and to reduce …

… studied chemistry, because she switched her degree program from geography to chemistry. So we were both enrolled as … I was imagining some massive contraption for amplifying genes. I wasn’t really sure what actinobacteria were. Dan … is a whole bunch of information that maybe never makes its publication. And these are little tips, you know, how to …

… on developing methods for converting digital information from sequence databases into biotechnological or … the design principles for successfully engineering pathways to function in heterologous hosts, by combining …