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… about microbiology and natural products from the Great Salt Lake, and you’re going to learn, like me, what a “haboob” … natural product potential of microorganisms from Great Salt Lake, which is a hypersaline terminal lake about 30 minutes … of Utah , about her secondary metabolism research on novel microbes and bioactive compounds in the Great Salt Lake. …
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… organisms as had been originally thought. The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in environmental processes …
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… variety of experimental samples, including organisms (e.g. microbes, fungi, plant), media in which they grow, as well as different types of environments (e.g. soil, lake). A wide range of metabolites are identified using …
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Laura.Selbmann©PNRA. All the sampling activities in Antarctica have been performed in the frame of italian … Science Program, characterize organisms (plants and microbes) relevant to the DOE science mission areas of … needed to design, build, and control plants and microbes to produce biofuels, …
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As waters warm due to climate change, corals are in mortal … and a little-characterized microbiome. When warm waters stress corals, it might be their microbes, including their photosynthetic partner, that help …
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I want to talk about ActinoBase, we want to talk about Antarctica, and we want to talk about molecular networking, … what’s important in terms of the chemistry produced by microbes. And by what’s important, I mean, like, where … tools, in terms of looking at the chemistry produced by microbes, they’re pretty adaptable to other organisms. And …
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… activity. So the chemistry and function really of those microbes that live there. And in our work we’ve determined … have done some work at the polls or is it the Arctic or Antarctic but you’ve gone to retrieve some bacteria that … bobtail squid, it’s doing some sort of interaction with its microbes that it’s getting. But yet the organisms are …
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… was adjacent to what I worked on, but my experience of how microbes are interacting in the environment like, like my … Institution of Oceanography. He got me into genomics of microbes, specifically of some that lived in the ocean and … products that we’ll talk to him about. ALISON: Cool! Ocean microbes! DAN: Yeah, absolutely. And then after that I was …
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… them on a regular basis. So they are full of terrestrial microbes. So they’re open ecosystems. They’re not sealed off … impressed me. I thought, wow, if we could just harness what microbes can do and do synthesis. Can we do total synthesis … in improving a lead compound that you’ve discovered from microbes. Chances are you could find a dozen other producers …
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Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria (phototrophs) in Antarctica’s Ace Lake defy the norm when it comes to nutrient cycling in …
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… systems. No one was, at that time, really working with microbes from the ocean. So I felt there was a wonderful … understand a small percentage of overall metabolism. And microbes, and other organisms, have evolved pathways to make … We’re really good at engineering small molecules into microbes and making those microbes make those small …
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… you think about the fact that, when plants and animals and microbes evolve, they evolve to make molecules that improve … So around 1985, I said, why aren’t we studying microbes in the ocean? Why don’t we do that? DAN UDWARY: … animal to develop a drug was really difficult, working with microbes to develop a drug was not difficult at all. And …
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