Natural Prodcast guest William Fenical of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography on the beginnings of marine natural products, his experiences in drug discovery, and exploring marine bacteria for novel chemistry. [Read More]
This Natural Prodcast episode features Katherine Duncan from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Her work focuses on marine microbial chemical ecology. [Read More]
Natural Prodcast features JGI Director Nigel Mouncey, lead of the JGI’s Secondary Metabolites Science Program. Dr. Mouncey shares his vision for the JGI that sees secondary metabolism analysis and research as a driver for novel technologies that can serve all JGI users.
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Natural Prodcast guest Francisco Barona-Gomez suggests discussing natural products from bacteria-centric terms and not from a human-centric point of view. [Read More]
Continuing the Natural Prodcast series on genome mining, guest Nadine Ziemert from the University of Tübingen on the evolution of secondary metabolite pathways as viewed through metagenome studies, and what more JGI and others can do to enable progress in this area of natural products. [Read More]
In this Natural Prodcast podcast episode, Marnix Medema of Wageningen University and his collaborators have a fantastic set of software tools for exploring secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs). [Read More]
In this Natural Prodcast episode, the basics of genome mining, including an analogy involving the California Gold Rush. Also covered: a new publication out of JGI in Nature Biotechnology. [Read More]