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… provides customized analysis, the JGI also participates in publication of results. …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a podcast about the … aflatoxin being a secondary metabolite from an Aspergillus species that is pretty toxic – can cause liver cancer and … had some food for them which of course, I couldn’t feed the whole school.    ALISON: Where was this?   NANCY: This was …

… before. DAN: Yeah, yeah, fun stuff.  MARC: And we call that whole thing, the “chemistry hub”, and that’s centered right … MARC: Yeah, so one of the approaches that Tiny Earth is using to be different than screening in the past, is in the … Canada. I just got back from a conference in Canada on antimicrobial resistance sponsored by the Garner foundation. And …

… finding new sources is somewhat problematic. And there’s a whole process to this, that can be really time consuming … to your extract and try to purify the molecule that’s causing that test to be successful. Right? Because we don’t – … millions of years to find the precursor sequences. Those species are long dead. And if the DNA sequences have been …

… us on that. You know, as an added benefit, the S. tropica species also makes an anticancer agent that today is in … identifying genes to that toxin, but it’s opened up this whole area of environmental health that we’re now working … you use that to do? Brad: Yeah, absolutely. You know, we’re using it as a way to be able to better predict when a toxic …

… of infectious or inflammatory disease and these same species are being used not just by one generation but by … I think on COVID that we’re getting ready to submit for publication and have found some interesting hits for that as … that we found, indeed, that both formulations had some antimicrobial properties. But the one that was used in …

… The JGI is inviting researchers using the U.S. Culture Collection Network (USCCN) to … focuses on creating robust high-yielding feedstock plants, using advanced genetic technology to accelerate the … breakthroughs in basic science, and is exploring microbial-based synthesis of fuels beyond ethanol. …

… in how we can build tools which will let us see the whole landscape of natural products. So you know, for … to try and create an open source database of all known microbial natural products. So if you think about natural … from drug discovery in every possible disease target area, using an enormous array of different isolation strategies …

… outreach program to get kids interested in microbiology and microbial chemistry. All good stuff, and I hope you enjoy … your website that-- speaking of hormones, that you're also using hormones as this chemical communication signal. BETSY … shown today is it's more a quorum sensing within a single species. DAN: Within a species. Genus? BETSY PARKINSON: So …

… of polyploidy and perenniality. The Science A reference genome sequence and genomic toolkit for the perennial grass … Miscanthus sinensis has been published. Analysis of the genome sequence also provides insights into how the multiple … M. sinensis and a tetraploid M. sacchariflorus , another species of Miscanthus that was sequenced. Understanding the …

… nearly tripled the available fungal mitochondrial genome data, unlocking new potential for AI-driven studies … mitochondrial genes as reliable markers for classifying species and studying diversity in complex biological … team then extended their analysis beyond the reference set, using two additional approaches. To search environmental …

… A(nswer): Our focus is on fungi, algae, plants, and the microbial world but we also annotated several Phytophthora … While are still working on finalizing the tree and related publication the tree is still in development and not … together similar genes in different strains or related species. 21.  Q: How can we select & change for other …