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… metabolism. Hey everybody, this is Dan with episode 13 of National Prodcast. This continues our little section … were basically interchangeable terms in terms of common usage. And I was recently challenged on that on … At the end of the day, all the content produced by microbes the result of millions of years of evolution. And …

… of Oceanography in San Diego. Bill is a pioneer of marine natural products, getting into the ocean and looking … in the ’40s, but really in the ’50s– led to a little more common use of scuba. And very crude early equipment was … that you would say marine life make organic molecules for survival, the idea you would say that and then try to prove …

… at these molecules for different reasons. But there is one common topic. And if you then start to talk with these … saw a potential mechanism for why there would be this streamlining? NADINE ZIEMERT: Yes, and just how one certain … made it. That was good luck. I mean, I’m still proud of the strategy, how we found the gene cluster. But had they then …

… grade list of goals in life: on that list are being a marine biologist and being a chemist, and it’s actually … on the amazing John Faulkner’s work, who passed away about 17 years ago now. It looked really interesting. He was … products? ERIC:  Sure. So sponges are one of the most common animals in the ocean. They’re really species-diverse. …

… of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. We use … available at Google Scholar. Schulz, C Abergel, T Woyke (2022) Giant virus biology and diversity in the era of … in cell biology. 25 (6), 339-346 Schulz et al. (2015) Marine amoebae with cytoplasmic and perinuclear symbionts …

… of those. And I would either use blast or hammer, which are common homology search tools. And I would blast those … come from all kinds of disparate environments. There’s some marine. There’s some soil samples. There’s human gut … Microbiomes” paper is here . Read the associated JGI news release here . Software we discussed, used for genome …

… just not enough time and money. I mean, we have a huge marine fungal project in collaboration with Bill Fenical at … there a way to do that? DAN UDWARY: Well, so there’s good news and bad news on that. So one of the things that we’re … of Utah , about her secondary metabolism research on novel microbes and bioactive compounds in the Great Salt Lake. …

… wouldn’t it be cool to look at these– it was actually marine invertebrates there– but look at these things in the … what’s important in terms of the chemistry produced by microbes. And by what’s important, I mean, like, where … I don’t know if they’ve evolved separately or gone through common ancestors or whatever. But putting all of that …

… on plant natural products. Rich, rich in bacterial and marine stuff. So we need more people annotating. It will … profiles in bacteria as well. Yeah. DAN UDWARY: Yeah. Yeah, common root.  ALISON TAKEMURA: And so is that how your … the role of different environmental resources in human survival. In fact, ethnobotany is the science of survival. …

… like a nice summer day in Seattle I think this was like 2013 or 2014. And antiSMASH — I know you’ve interviewed Marnix … the community so far. But being here and then being at the Marine Natural Products meeting in Ventura where I got to … ecology community to be able to better predict how their microbes are interacting with each other from sequence …

Antarctic Museum (MNA-CCFEE). … The JGI was created in 1997 to unite the expertise and resources in DNA sequencing, … Science Program, characterize organisms (plants and microbes) relevant to the DOE science mission areas of … of organics will not be considered. Projects targeting marine systems must clearly demonstrate relevance and …

… never forced it on me, but we always had these scientific news magazines lying around at home. And I would just pick … business growth and be able to translate that into our R&D strategy and plans for the work that we were doing. And then … But they really span our core science programs which are microbes, and fungi, and algae plants, synthetic biology. …