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… 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 targeted at environmental cells that are … still persists to date. Research Team    … Phylogenetic diversity estimates show that the gap between cultivated and …

… for a while. Moving forward, I’m hoping to get a new one out every two weeks. This time, we’ve got a great … you to, say, go to your grandma’s backyard. To collect the diversity that exists in the 1940s? The answer is no! If … collect microorganisms all over the world for the sake of discovering biologically active natural products.  DAN: …

… … DAN UDWARY: Hey everyone and welcome back to a new session of Natural Prodcast. … was less nutrients but enough that you had a lot of biodiversity. So we choose environments that are close enough … ecology, because we feel as though that stacks the deck for discovering molecules that do something. And that’s a whole …

… and an incredibly bright guy who’s been thinking for a long time about the evolution and natural products systems. This … grow and have different perspectives– from the chemists on one side, microbiologists, and evolutionary biologists more … is that you could, therefore, expect a lot of chemical diversity. So many compounds will fulfill the same function. …

… suggest you go back and check the first episode out. This one continues the introductory conversation between myself … derivatives of natural products.  ALISON: Like such a large diversity can have similar effects, I think is also really … Fleming produced when he discovered – or was on the road to discovering – penicillin. So what we see here in this …

… pathway, and I’ll have to do a whole show on it one of these days. If you listen to the Nancy Keller … way – the RiPP way, is to make a protein using the normal cellular way of making proteins, with a ribosome. Then, some … with animal metabolism itself, and it’s really amazing what diversity there is in animals. I think, even despite the …

… program, which stands for International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups, and it’s this great program funded by the … of biodiversity, of which natural products chemistry is one. DAN: So, I’ve always known Roger as an expert in … carefully at these as being candidates siderophores. Or for cell-cell signaling or for, you know, other other roles …

… … DAN UDWARY: Hey, everyone. I’ve got a great episode for you here today. We got the … I mean, in terms of human evolution and knowledge, like discovering that the ocean is a really vibrant, vital place … it took 15 to 18 years before we were able to convince the diversity of marine ecologists that they needed to consider …

Plants are complex organisms that harbor a fantastic diversity of cell types and associated organisms, including fungal and … rhizobacterium (PGPR) Pseudomonas simiae WCS417. One suggested function of these phage genes is the …

… the in the 50s 60s 70s, most of the exploration of this is done by what’s called “find and grind”. So you would find … to be here and be able to discuss this incredible, natural diversity that we have at our fingertips. So I’m very … more and hear more about what JGI and collaborators are discovering. DAN: Alright, well, I’m glad you’re on board, …

Am fine. I live in a pandemic so I’m no different than anyone else.  DAN: Yeah. I mean fine in pandemic adjusted terms … postdoc Panama as part of the international cooperative biodiversity group (ICBG) based in Panama and was dual there … understanding its contribution to ecosystem function in the cellulolytic fungus-growing ant symbiosis JGI Community …

So here we are. This is the first episode, and at the same time I’m going to release 5 other episodes so you can get a … great conversations that we’ve already recorded with some excellent scientists, and that’s probably how we’ll continue … on, let me know! All right, so here we go. This is episode one of the Natural Prodcast Primer!  — DAN: Hey, Alison.  …