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Prodcast episode 17. The guest we have this week is Professor Cassandra Quave from Emory University, with joint … and culture-disconnected. Like we’ll take some soil samples and sequence all the bugs out of that or … plant natural products is rife with really poorly designed studies. We have studies where people write about work on …

The JGI’s Metabolomics Program works to uncover the roles of small molecules in biological systems, linking them with … the program supports foundational research related to soil nutrient cycling and health, terrestrial biogeochemical … samples — including microbes, fungi, plants and soils. Through a combination of experimental workflows and …

… analysis techniques to explore the vast and diverse world of microbes. Studying bacteria and archaea, including those … addressing key environmental challenges, such as improving soil health, carbon sequestration and bioeconomy … those associated with microeukaryotes. The program also studies giant viruses. Key research areas include …

JGI Mission As a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility supported by the … expertise to support the global research community in studies of complex biological and environmental systems. We … to contaminants such as heavy metals or radionuclides in soils, freshwater, coastal sediments (coastal here defined  …

… by exploring plants’ role in capturing carbon, detoxifying soils, interacting with other organisms, and adapting to … to current problems facing humanity. A major focus are biofuel feedstock species and plant-microbe interactions, … of how plants have naturally adapted to varied climate and soil conditions around the globe to identify genes to …

… know that that’s ever necessarily like a good description of anyone because chemistry means a lot, especially when … many different avenues toward chemistry. But that’s kind of where I had you. How would you describe what your … studying ethnobotany in Brazil.  And so I went to the Amazon rainforest and talked to people who as part of a …

… … DAN UDWARY: Hey everyone and welcome back to a new session of Natural Prodcast. I’ve got two things I wanted to tell … where he is the PI of the Laboratory for Biosynthetic Studies. Brian and I are old friends and colleagues, having … off through these areas. And you can do– with a teaspoon of soil from outside, you maybe have to do a 10,000-fold …

… … DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural Prodcast, a … of these environments? NADINE ZIEMERT: So we started with soil. But we also have, in collaboration with other people, … secondary metabolite pathways as viewed through metagenome studies, and what more JGI and others can do to enable …

… for you here today. We got the opportunity to talk to one of the real legends of natural products, Professor Bill … are many others, including Streptomycetes, which are common soil bacteria. DAN UDWARY: Yeah, we talk about them a lot … knowledge of the direction the field has taken:  Chemical studies of marine bacteria: developing a new resource Bill …

See below for examples of successful Letters of Intent to our Community Science … … Adaptive strategies in a cosmopolitan and abundant soil bacterium: genetic microdiversity or core metabolic flexibility? … Microbial contributions to soil carbon storage during simulated range shifts of …

Research 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 … critical to serve as phylogenetic anchors for metagenomes studies.  While uncovering the metabolic potential of …