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… DAN UDWARY: Hey, everyone. I’ve got a great episode for you here today. We got the … I mean, in terms of human evolution and knowledge, like discovering that the ocean is a really vibrant, vital place … it took 15 to 18 years before we were able to convince the diversity of marine ecologists that they needed to consider …

… in the Woyke laboratory focuses on the utility of single-cell methods to access genetic material of uncultivated taxa of interest. One such effort is targeted at environmental cells that are … candidate phyla, major branches in the phylogenetic tree without cultivated representatives. The “Great Plate-Count …

… for a while. Moving forward, I’m hoping to get a new one out every two weeks. This time, we’ve got a great … you to, say, go to your grandma’s backyard. To collect the diversity that exists in the 1940s? The answer is no! If … collect microorganisms all over the world for the sake of discovering biologically active natural products.  DAN: …

… So here we are. This is the first episode, and at the same time I’m going to release 5 other episodes so you can get a … great conversations that we’ve already recorded with some excellent scientists, and that’s probably how we’ll continue … on, let me know! All right, so here we go. This is episode one of the Natural Prodcast Primer!  — DAN: Hey, Alison.  …

… pathway, and I’ll have to do a whole show on it one of these days. If you listen to the Nancy Keller … way – the RiPP way, is to make a protein using the normal cellular way of making proteins, with a ribosome. Then, some … with animal metabolism itself, and it’s really amazing what diversity there is in animals. I think, even despite the …

… Below is a brief description of the process needed to prepare and ship samples for sequencing by the JGI.  Additionally it … at the JGI. The quality of the starting material is one of the greatest predictors of a successful sequencing … prior to shipment to the  JGI. The documents below (posted with permission) demonstrate the importance of proper …

… and computational exploration of uncultivated viral diversity, characterization of molecular mechanisms involved in virus:host interaction and host cell take-over by viruses, and attempts to evaluate … of viral infections. The Viral Genomics Group is hosted within the Environmental Genomics group . Research Team …

… and an incredibly bright guy who’s been thinking for a long time about the evolution and natural products systems. This … grow and have different perspectives– from the chemists on one side, microbiologists, and evolutionary biologists more … is that you could, therefore, expect a lot of chemical diversity. So many compounds will fulfill the same function. …

… of Oceanography. Alison and I were lucky to get some time to sit down and have a great chat with him.  I kind of … most of that out. But anyway, here’s our conversation with one of my favorite human beings, Brad Moore. — Dan: How do I … of, better understand fundamentally what’s going on in the cell as it responds to its ocean environment. And as we …

… The Metagenome Program uses advanced sequencing technologies to … encompasses bacteria, archaea, and micro-eukaryoes, along with their associated viruses and mobile genetic elements. Beyond exploring and characterizing microbial diversity, work in the Metagenome Program uses several …

…   Our Sequencing Technologies Group is well-integrated across JGI departments to ensure a robust offering of … the Sequencing Technologies team, relies on collaborations with Science Programs and Operations teams to enable the … — and further advancing sequence applications, single cell genomics, DNA synthesis, and metabolomics …

… DAN UDWARY: Hey everyone and welcome back to a new session of Natural Prodcast. … was less nutrients but enough that you had a lot of biodiversity. So we choose environments that are close enough … ecology, because we feel as though that stacks the deck for discovering molecules that do something. And that’s a whole …