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… … DAN UDWARY: Hey everyone and welcome back to a new session of Natural Prodcast. I’ve got two things I wanted to tell … of thought with that. So some people are interested in cave microbial– people are interested in the more extreme … off through these areas. And you can do– with a teaspoon of soil from outside, you maybe have to do a 10,000-fold …

Prodcast episode 17. The guest we have this week is Professor Cassandra Quave from Emory University, with joint … and culture-disconnected. Like we’ll take some soil samples and sequence all the bugs out of that or … I think on COVID that we’re getting ready to submit for publication and have found some interesting hits for that as …

Metagenomic datasets could help map out microbial diversity hotspots Over the past few decades, advancements in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global …

… … DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural Prodcast, a … Usually, in a lot of cases, we still have to go through publications to get proteins, and their functions, and all … of these environments? NADINE ZIEMERT: So we started with soil. But we also have, in collaboration with other people, …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … shrubby grass that can grow year-over-year on marginal soil and with few resources. Despite the low maintenance, it … has allowed the research team to associate climate adaptations with switchgrass biology. Switchgrass has a …

Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  … was done to gain insights into gene families involved in adaptations seen in later plant lineages. The team found … insight into genes critical for roles including plant growth and cell wall development.  M. polymorpha is also …

Micro-Scale Applications group explores the genetic makeup of natural microbial communities using a variety of cutting-edge approaches.  Our group also …

Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals highlight biodiversity and how … interact with their environment, potentially accelerating soil carbon loss. Orange ribbons mark the heated plots and … to look at the microbial methane cycle in terrestrial geothermal environments. …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … you’d like to read more about this, I highly recommend his publication last year, “The Biosynthetic Diversity of the …