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The Community Science Program (CSP) provides the scientific community at large with access … of disciplines. Three calls fall under the umbrella of our CSP: The Large Scale call is for expansive projects that …

… notable research and scientific collaborations in 2018. The cover is an image of Mono Lake, a saline soda lake … understand arsenic mobility and to better understand their roles in the global sulfur cycle. Copies are available …

… previous fiscal years for our Community Science Program (CSP) as well as the Facilities Integrating Collaborations …

I talked about the basics of genome mining, which is using DNA sequence to identify and interpret biosynthetic, … we know for sure that this gene cluster plays an essential role to get this phenotype. I think that’s just a nice … metabolomics, and natural products in plants, fungi, and microorganisms. If you want to collaborate, let …

… — and harness — the superpowers encoded in plants, fungi, microalgae, environmental viruses, and bacteria to …

… – problems that might need special technology for DNA sequencing, genomics, metabolomics, and synthetic … natural chemical compounds that you find in plants, fungi and bacteria, basically all living things. When your … was probably some historical evolutionary event where the DNA transferred from the fungus into the tree and became …

So it was great to hear her passion and enthusiasm for fungi. And we talk a lot about some of the technical … to begin with. So transformation, or manipulation of the DNA of genes and bacteria, occurred much faster earlier than … fact that it’s a eukaryotic genome, I guess, and the way DNA is activated. The promoter systems are different. We …

… niche in chemical enzymology. So, we talked about her JGI DNA synthesis project to explore the chemical capabilities … of flavin independent monooxygenases with the help of JGI’s DNA synthesis grant. And that having a whole panel of these … And so, the three of us sitting here are not afraid of DNA– [LAUGHING] Or growing a little E. coli to make a …

… in Antarctica on a ship. Yeah, so I went to Antarctica in 2018 as a participant in Homeward Bound 2, last year as … to hear from you. We have projects in genome sequencing, DNA synthesis, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and natural products in plants, fungi, and microorganisms. If you want to collaborate, let …

… because – mainly it’s due to the emerging technology on DNA sequencing and synthetic biology. But also the … compound is so toxic, and the mechanism, which is breaking DNA, so there’s no selectivity. So, people have been … penicillin from the fungal species – probably told us that fungi could be very productive sources for, say, biological …

… said Susannah Tringe, JGI User Programs Deputy. “These new CSP projects accelerate our efforts to characterize … Berkeley is interested in better characterizing the role endosymbiotic bacteria play on mating habits of Mucoromycota fungi, and their effects on these oil-producing species. …

… 80s and the 90s. And so we started to be able to explore DNA sequencing and actually get to the DNA sequence – sequences for the genes that code for the … been shared for a long time by many, many bacteria – and fungi and plants. And so that’s the power and the promise …