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… DAN: Hello, everyone, and Welcome back for Episode 14 of Natural Prodcast . There’s been a lot going on, so I … never forced it on me, but we always had these scientific news magazines lying around at home. And I would just pick … NIGEL MOUNCEY: Yeah, so we put out a strategic plan in 2018. And in building that plan, we thought about secondary …

… Professor Bill Fenical from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. Bill is a pioneer of marine … into the secondary metabolism of some more novel marine bacteria. You know, I first met Bill as a postdoc working … we were studying marine animals, marine plants, things like sponges and things you could collect. But when we’d find …

… And a lot of us moved on to work in simpler systems, like bacteria, where we figure we can make more progress faster, … interesting. He was interested to know how animals in the ocean use chemistry to interact and it went from there.  … What animals? ERIC:  So he was really a specialist on sponges. And he’s worked on lots of different creatures. And …

… focuses on the exploration of secondary metabolites across bacteria, fungi, algae and plants. These molecules, which … reservoir of secondary metabolites produced by bacteria, fungi, algae and plants. These compounds are key … (BGCs) being expressed. The program works to uncover these hidden biochemical resources by exploring the genetic …

… Brad Moore, UC San Diego and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. (Courtesy of B. Moore) DAN: This is the second … it be a plant or from the bottom of the ocean, from a sponge, or a seaweed, were just having just remarkable … Initially, my group really focused on marine actinobacteria. Then we moved into marine proteobacteria. Not a …

… is focused on the discovery and characterization of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in … to live in Earth's most extreme environments, from deep-sea oceanic fluids to hypersaline lakes and hyperthermal … to Cyanobacteria associate with eukaryotes in the open ocean .”  Current Biology , Volume 34 Issue 22. Krinos, …

… about something I can kind of see like the squid and the bacteria and how the chemistry is going back and forth … you would think. Anything that could be swimming in the ocean right?  ALISON: Follow up question: Does the organ … can be controversial. People use cryptic, or silent, or hidden, obscured. But mostly it means that we– especially …

… in Nature and Medicine.” It’s obviously focused more on the bacterial side of the field, and it’s a little hard to find … pulled from the soil, maybe it’s, you know, we talked about sponges, go pull a sponge or extract some tree bark. And so … me to check her stat and she was absolutely correct. Since 2010 there have been eight new antibiotics added to the …

… available datasets encompassing >150,000 isolate genomes, 230,000 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs), and 40,000+ … A. Van Laar. Draft Genome Sequence of Muricoccus roseus DSM 14916T, isolated from a children’s care center in … R. Seshadri, M. Escobar. Draft genome sequences of two bacterial type strains isolated from a methanogenic …

… the global diversity of alternative genetic codes (Science 2014), unearthing hundreds of thousands of new viral genomes … and comparative analysis of thousands of archaeal and bacterial type strains ( GEBA-type strains project ), the … genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea.  Nature Biotechnology  35(8):725-731 …

… to explore the vast and diverse world of microbes. Studying bacteria and archaea, including those associated with … to explore microbial diversity — with an emphasis on bacteria and archaea, and including those associated with … microorganisms, by sequencing large populations of bacteria and archaea in their natural environments using …

… cell types and associated organisms, including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental microbial pathogens, and … This is a dynamic and complex ecosystem that includes bacteria, fungi, viruses. Resident viruses can be found in a myriad of bacterial strains, whereby they can modulate host …