In this episode of the Natural Prodcast, guest Roger Linington from Simon Fraser University talks about how his group has turned to some software development in order to build the tools that they need. The Natural Product Atlas, a high-quality freely-available natural products structure database developed produced by a large international collaboration, is one result of his group’s efforts. [Read More]

This episode of the Natural Prodcast podcast features guest Eric W. Schmidt from the University of Utah. Dr. Schmidt is a natural products chemist who works in a wide variety of marine organisms, including sponges, tunicates, cone snails, fungi, and bacteria. The interview was conducted at the SIMB Natural Products conference in January 2020. [Read More]

Enediynes, enabling technologies, and leveraging a large microbial strain collection for natural product discovery. In Episode 7 of Natural Prodcast, Ben Shen from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) chats with Dan Udwary and Alison Takemura about enediynes and their use in medicine, how Ben got fascinated with natural products by working on terpene chemistry, TSRI’s acquisition of the Pfizer strain collection, and our collaborations to sequence that collection, mine genomes, and develop new technology to access natural products. [Read More]

This episode of the Natural Prodcast podcast, features a conversation with Marc Chevrette. Marc is a postdoctoral fellow in Jo Handelsman’s group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where, among lots of other things, he works on the Tiny Earth project. [Read More]

In this episode of the Natural Prodcast podcast, a conversation with Brad Moore, who has joint appointments at UC San Diego and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The podcast interview was conducted during the SIMB Natural Products conference. [Read More]

In this Natural Prodcast episode, Dan Udwary and Alison Takemura chat with Nancy Keller, a fantastic fungal natural products researcher from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The podcast was recorded at the Society for Industrial Microbiology’s Natural Products conference. [Read More]

This is Part 1 of Natural Prodcast’s primer on secondary metabolism. Natural Prodcast is available on Apple, Google, Spotify, Stitcher, directly with the RSS link, and via most other commonly-used podcast feeds. Please subscribe, and leave a review! [Read More]

This is Part 2 of Natural Prodcast’s primer on secondary metabolism. Natural Prodcast is available on Apple, Google, Spotify, Stitcher, directly with the RSS link, and via most other commonly-used podcast feeds. Please subscribe, and leave a review! [Read More]

This is Part 3 of Natural Prodcast’s primer on secondary metabolism. Natural Prodcast is available on Apple, Google, Spotify, Stitcher, directly with the RSS link, and via most other commonly-used podcast feeds. Please subscribe, and leave a review! [Read More]