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… use natural products necessarily. Fungi are large. They’re microbes, but they’re large microbes. And they have all sorts of cool phenotypes that … teach microbiology – “microbiology” – it’s almost 95% bacteria! What happened to all the other microbes? So …

… strain and there have been years and years and years about 35-ish years, I think, now, studying Vibrio fischeri and … activity. So the chemistry and function really of those microbes that live there.  And in our work we’ve determined … That is one of the really big frontiers for the next stage of natural product drug discovery I think. Or even …

… maybe obvious or notable. We are still in – not an early stage. I think we can identify most secondary metabolism … we really recognize, right?  ALISON: And I tend to think of microbes as being able to secrete a lot more things than … from 1940 to 2000. As you can see, from the 1940s, into the 50s into the 60s, there was a huge growth – a huge explosion …

… elements like viruses spread their DNA, they can affect how microbes cycle nutrients and adapt to climate change. …

… is not limited to  Euryarchaeota .  Finding Methane-Making Microbes with Metagenomics  By leveraging metagenomics to sample the entirety of a microbial community …

… not essential for fundamental growth, provide critical advantages to the organisms producing them, and are often …

… scientific approaches to these challenges.     Our homepage video includes external footage from:  University of Delaware Laura.Selbmann©PNRA. All … Science Program, characterize organisms (plants and microbes) relevant to the DOE science mission areas of …

… was looking to develop new methods for DNA sequencing of microbes. And what kept breaking our methods was these damn … over time. And yeah, I mean, that was let’s see, maybe 5,6,7 years ago, and I’ve – I haven’t looked back. ALISON: … system. [ Go here to learn more about Cameron Currie’s metagenomics research, enabled in part by JGI’s Community …