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Udwary. I – as well as my co-host, Alison Takemura, whose voice you’ll hear in a minute – we work for the US Department … the special, natural chemical compounds that you find in plants, fungi and bacteria, basically all living things. … what we’re calling a Primer. We wanted to try and give a general audience some of the basics of natural products …

… we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. I … off our conversation with a quick recap of how plants, in general, work. KAROLINA:  We all know plants take up water … Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley …

Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The … of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … applications. … This work was funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Award No. FA9550-14-1-0089, …

OK, so imagine this sentence comes across your desk. We’re developing this enzyme into a biocatalyst. Wasn’t it already … too, so the more robust, the better. JACKIE WINTER: Nice. DAN UDWARY: That makes sense. Yeah, it’s been a long … could have arisen from. DAN UDWARY: OK, so sort of a phylogenetic reconstruction kind of a thing. ALISON NARAYAN: …

… products At JGI, in-depth molecular profiles are generated for metabolites extracted from a variety of … samples, including organisms (e.g. microbes, fungi, plant), media in which they grow, as well as different types …

Dr. Vogel joined JGI in 2014 to establish a plant functional genomics program. Prior to this, he served … to pathogens. Dr. Vogel’s current research is focused on developing plant functional genomic resources (e.g. … … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Service …