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… DAN UDWARY: Hey, everyone. I’ve got a great episode for you here today. We got the opportunity to talk to one of … So really happy to have you here today. There’s a couple of things I want to make sure that we talk about. You … time, we found another molecule. This time it was from a fungal strain collected from sediments in the ocean. No, …

… This is part 2 of our “primer” episode, so if you ended up here somehow without having listened to the first part, … so secondary metabolism is throughout nature, except maybe for animals and humans, not as much. You know, we have this … of weird growths on livestock due to you know, bacterial or fungal infections. Yeah, okay. So he identified these things …

… best things that we do is work with this really great group of biologists that know what they’re doing much better … and the bacteria and how the chemistry is going back and forth between them is part of what fascinates me about what … And we’ve done some work with those and have a couple of publications out there on the chemistry. There’s so much …

… challenges. In March 2008, the genome sequence of the forest fungus Laccaria bicolor was published in the journal … mycorrhizal fungal genomes publicly available on the fungal portal MycoCosm, many sequenced through the JGI 1000 Fungal Genomes … Laccaria bicolor on MycoCosm …

… ways to protect poplar and other crops being considered for bioenergy feedstock development. Summary With the aim of … least one reference genome for every family of fungi, the 1000 Fungal Genomes initiative of the U.S. Department of … genome-wide regulation and cataloging them in JGI’s fungal portal MycoCosm. …

… to Natural Prodcast! This is episode 4! From here on out, for a while, we’re going to be presenting some conversations … episode is our conversation with Nancy Keller, a fantastic fungal natural products researcher from the University of … And the other one is called Bacteriology. But it’s supposed to include all microbes in it. But yeah, it’s called …

… down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial … there is a striking division of labor between the two groups. Fungi are much more active in degrading plant matter, … reference fungal genome sequences assembled as part of its 1000 Fungal Genomes Project . To map microbial activity, …

… Biology Knowledgebase (KBase). The JGI and KBase are both supported by the DOE Biological and Environmental Research … Myco-Ed reference genomes made available in the public web portal,  MycoCosm . These data improve the quantity and quality of … MycoEd receives organizational and developmental support from KBase (The Department of Energy Systems Biology …

… A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on … places like Minnesota for example, despite taking up only about 3% of the planet’s landmass, peat moss and … fine tune his approach. “I got a lot of that from Zhong.”   Publication: Carrell AA et al. Habitat-adapted microbial …

… DAN: Welcome back for episode 9 of Natural Prodcast. This week, Alison and I … Bill Gerwick’s lab and doing research in Panama through support from the ICBG training program, which stands for … accurate. And so we told people that if they would curate 1000 entries, that that would earn them authorship of the …

… The exponential growth of DNA sequencing data, coupled with recent computational technology advances in … analysis and interpretation is creating new opportunities for breakthrough discoveries and catalyzing a major … of biology into data science.  Research in the Kyrpides group focuses on Microbiome Data Science and analysis of Big …

… exerted by viruses. Research in the viral genomics group aims at improving our collective understanding of … impacts of viral infections. The Viral Genomics Group is hosted within the Environmental Genomics group . Research Team … is active when/where, and how? ). The JGI Viral Genomics group attempts to address this question in natural soil …