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Natural Prodcast Episode 7: Ben Shen

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]

Natural Prodcast Episode 6: Marc Chevrette

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]

Natural Prodcast Episode 5: Brad Moore

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]

Natural Prodcast Episode 4: Nancy Keller

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]

Natural Prodcast – Coming soon!

Natural Prodcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play and wherever you listen. Subscribe today! Check out a teaser of the Joint Genome Institute’s Natural Prodcast, a podcast hosted by Dan Udwary about the science and scientists of secondary metabolism. [Read More]