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… into secondary metabolites? Kate Duncan: So I always liked science in school. I wouldn’t say I was one of these people … people in Europe do this traveling by train inter-railing around countries. And I was actually in Croatia on a small … has been really, really fun. Alison Takemura: And then does that also– well, I guess the question really is, do …

… Natural Prodcast, a podcast about natural products and the science and scientists of secondary metabolism. Welcome back … All right. So I thought we’d kick things off this time around, talking about a subject that’s near and dear to my … genome mining is, if I want to explain that to someone who doesn’t know much about genetics or anything else, science …

… roles in plant health and environmental processes. The Science In a recent Microbiome paper , scientists focused on … work, enabled in part by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science … land and the atmosphere. Microbes living there can interact with chemical defenses of plants and influence nutrient …

… to develop new algorithms, models and tools in support of DOE mission priorities. Data discoverability and … from a single investment will be reused for further science.  Notices Data Portal files will be inaccessible … a new login service, requiring the use of an ORCID account with two-factor authentication enabled to log in. Check our …

… the public sector: academic and government institutions — with capabilities that had remained largely unknown and … including User Facilities like the JGI, through its Genesis Mission. Launched in 2025, the initiative aims to … leading industry and academic organizations with the DOE, National Laboratories, and User Facilities — as well as …

… ( NERSC ) is to accelerate scientific discovery at the DOE Office of Science through high performance computing (HPC) and data analysis.  The DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase ( KBase ) integrates … the other participating facilities, is then forwarded to DOE for final approval.  Following DOE approval, project …

… to tap into the largely unexplored biochemical diversity within secondary metabolites, expanding their potential … plants. These compounds are key to organisms' interactions with their environments and with each other, from defending … conditions, with only a small portion of the biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) being expressed. The program works to …

… Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a podcast about the science and scientists of secondary metabolism.  DAN: Hello, … And then you know, the rest of a natural product molecule around that. That’s sort of a semi-stable configuration of … What is beautiful for natural products is nature! Nature does this sort of – if you think of nature as a scientist, …

… We offer internship opportunities through working directly with specific universities, continuing education programs in the Bay Area, and established programs affiliated with the Berkeley Lab A-LIFT team.    Overall, our aim is to … JGI-UC Merced internship program, a similar collaboration with AAMU was launched in 2024.  …

… concentration of calcium, and so on. And what difference does it make? The idea that you would say marine life make … to then switch from financial support from the National Science Foundation to financial support from the National … is that penicillin was a product of a microorganism. So around 1985, I said, why aren’t we studying microbes in the …

… genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers … , a project supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science … a resource that associates plant’s genetic variants with specific adaptation mechanisms they had identified. For …

… 2017 Summer Interns Share Highlights of their time at the JGI …