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

… Research in the Eloe-Fadrosh group focuses on using genome-resolved metagenomic approaches to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. We develop … computational approaches to sift through thousands of metagenomes for signatures of viruses and novel microbial …

… DAN: Hello, everyone, and Welcome back for Episode 14 of Natural Prodcast . … And these were not in natural products, these were in studying regulatory mechanisms of, first, E. coli and then … in an obvious way. NIGEL MOUNCEY: We did a little bit of metagenome screening work and did find related clusters. But …

… DAN UDWARY: Hey everyone and welcome back to a new session of Natural Prodcast. … Do you go after sediment? Do you go after– if there’s any water– or I guess, when you’re down there, is it something … just now switching from intermicrobial interactions, studying intermicrobial interactions by imaging interactions …

… DAN UDWARY: Hey, everyone. I’ve got a great episode for you here today. We got the … kept looking for open jobs that said, we want a chemist to study the ocean. And I didn’t find a single job … in chemistry with a hobby of putting your head underwater. But thankfully that worked out. And I spent 30, 40 …

… about natural products and the science and scientists of secondary metabolism. Welcome back. This will be episode 12 of … 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 …

… about natural products and the science and scientists of secondary metabolism. Welcome back for our second season of … like, and then you could characterize it. The classical study that demonstrated this is Challis et al, Chemistry and … and archaeal genomes that were created – these are Metagenome Associated Genomes, or MAGs. So these are genomes …

… The JGI’s Microbial Program focuses on using cutting-edge sequencing, annotation and analysis techniques to explore the vast and diverse world of microbes. Studying bacteria and archaea, including those associated … are also used for micro-eukaryotes, in particular to study inter-organismal interactions. Novel approaches are …

… curator there, with a broad range of experimental work on plants for drug discovery in antibiotics, anticancer, and … And for the audience, ethnobotany is the scientific study of the ways that people interact with plants, whether … every year in the US and it has since 2005 even though we technically have a number of different antibiotics in our …

…   Our Sequencing Technologies Group is well-integrated across JGI departments … which includes the Sequencing Technologies team, relies on collaborations with Science Programs and Operations teams to enable the … An assay used for profiling transcription factor binding sites across entire genomes. This …

… DAN: Hey Marcy!  ALISON: Hey Marcy?  MARCY: Hello. How’s it going?  DAN: Good. … now?  MARCY: Sure. So my lab has really converged on the study of host-microbe chemistry. And the interactions– As … Marcy. So I was wondering, how did you get interested in studying natural products?  MARCY: That is a great question …

… Below is a brief description of the process needed to prepare and ship samples for sequencing by the JGI.  Additionally it includes instructions on accessing sample-level reports and tracking … at the JGI. The quality of the starting material is one of the greatest predictors of a successful sequencing …