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… and massive reconstruction of genomes from uncultivated microbes (Nature 2019). Other projects in the group include … Neri U. et al. (2022) Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages. Cell . … compendium of 189,680 DNA viruses from the human gut microbiome. Nat Microbiol . 6(7):960-970. Nayfach S, et …
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… secrete a lot more things than people do…? Although I don’t study people so maybe I’m wrong. But yeah, I mean, because I … of bacteria and the things that they’re doing in the human gut. Turns out, there’s a lot of chemistry happening there – … common, it wasn’t unusual to see sort of weird growths on livestock due to you know, bacterial or fungal infections. …
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At the end of the day, all the content produced by microbes the result of millions of years of evolution. And … metabolite, produced by bacterial or fungal metabolism by microbes, will have a functional role. We started from that. … genome mining software we mentioned: “ EvoMining reveals the origin and fate of natural product biosynthetic …
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… now? MARCY: Sure. So my lab has really converged on the study of host-microbe chemistry. And the interactions– As … bacteria so what’s – I guess that maybe you could say the gut is, kind of. But not the same way this is designed … activity. So the chemistry and function really of those microbes that live there. And in our work we’ve determined …
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… and Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area to quantify atmospheric gas mitigation properties of multiple rice plant growth … a Skokie, Illinois-based company that recycles carbon emissions to make fuels and chemicals, improving air quality … the most efficient method of converting abundant low-cost gas feedstock into valuable bioproducts, but many …
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… kept looking for open jobs that said, we want a chemist to study the ocean. And I didn’t find a single job … to do something completely new. And that is to begin to study the organic chemistry of life in the sea. And he … you think about the fact that, when plants and animals and microbes evolve, they evolve to make molecules that improve …
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… product reports on the evolution of genome mining and microbes with Mohammad Alanjary and Tilmann Weber to be a … ALISON TAKEMURA: So Nadine, what got you interested in studying natural products? NADINE ZIEMERT: Like almost … talked about at the JGI meeting. DAN UDWARY: What’s your gut feeling about that sampling? Do you find different …
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We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also … gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant … matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that …
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… fun that we've started that is a different subject is from microbes to medicine labs. So this is-- we've been working … chance to actually learn a little bit more about how these microbes are isolated, but also learn a little bit more … Induction Betsy's lab webpage and the page on the From Microbes to Medicines outreach program JGI Release on …
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So like, as an undergraduate, I was like, no, I’m going to study architecture. I like making things and designing … systems. No one was, at that time, really working with microbes from the ocean. So I felt there was a wonderful … a glass fermenter, but is the fermenter also known as our gut? And can you be able to re engineer the gut microbiota …
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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 … just now switching from intermicrobial interactions, studying intermicrobial interactions by imaging interactions … looked at the grant applications for the last 40 years for studying biosynthetic pathways, all of them said that a …
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