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The Metagenome Program uses advanced sequencing technologies to decode the genomes of microbes in their … to assess microbial activity across ecosystems.  By studying microbial communities and their interactions, the …

… to explore the vast and diverse world of microbes. Studying bacteria and archaea, including those associated … addressing key environmental challenges, such as improving soil health, carbon sequestration and bioeconomy … capability of microbial communities based on their metagenome sequence, in the context of reference isolate …

ALISON TAKEMURA: So Nadine, what got you interested in studying natural products? NADINE ZIEMERT: Like almost … that easily can identify secondary metabolite pathways in metagenomes, which is still hard to do. We are mining a lot … of these environments? NADINE ZIEMERT: So we started with soil. But we also have, in collaboration with other people, …

… by exploring plants’ role in capturing carbon, detoxifying soils, interacting with other organisms, and adapting to … supports the development of next-generation biofuels by studying perennial grasses and fast-growing trees as … It is now available for both eukaryotic and microbial metagenome assemblies. It is also available as an app in …

Program works to uncover the roles of small molecules in biological systems, linking them with genomic data to … the program supports foundational research related to soil nutrient cycling and health, terrestrial biogeochemical … health, and bioenergy development. … EcoFABs:  For studying microbe-host (or plant-microbiome) interactions …

The IMG group owns and maintains integral components of JGI’s production workflow, … specificity of single cells and genomes extracted from metagenomes, and also as a metric for quality control within … resource for analysis and annotation of genome and metagenome datasets in a comprehensive comparative context. …

… the genetic makeup of natural microbial communities using a variety of cutting-edge approaches.  Our group also seeks out new … that utilize microfluidics/microdroplet technology in order to enhance the quality of single-cell genomes and …

… back to a new session of Natural Prodcast. I’ve got two things I wanted to tell you about in this introduction. First … off through these areas. And you can do– with a teaspoon of soil from outside, you maybe have to do a 10,000-fold … just now switching from intermicrobial interactions, studying intermicrobial interactions by imaging interactions …

… of natural products, Professor Bill Fenical from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. Bill is a pioneer … kept looking for open jobs that said, we want a chemist to study the ocean. And I didn’t find a single job … are many others, including Streptomycetes, which are common soil bacteria. DAN UDWARY: Yeah, we talk about them a lot …

… like, and then you could characterize it. The classical study that demonstrated this is Challis et al, Chemistry and … if an order is uncultured (blue; represented only by metagenome-assembled genomes or MAGs) or cultured (gray; … disparate environments. There’s some marine. There’s some soil samples. There’s human gut samples. There’s lots and …

… what was this bacterium, and why did your group want to study it? Marnix Medema: You mean the PhD project that I … primer episode, we talked about genome mining through some metagenome associated genomes. And yes, antiSMASH is … the action of the microbiome because if you sterilize the soil, the protective effect is gone. You can transplant the …

… in Florida to discuss a JGI pilot project involving soil sampling in the Florida Everglades to help train the … Jonathan’s email request reached  Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh , the Metagenome Program Head at the  U.S. Department of Energy … do an environmental microbial community (metagenomic) soil study in an untouched region of the Everglades, the …