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Genome Insider Episode 3: River Microbiomes From Around The World
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Genome Insider Episode 3: River Microbiomes From Around The World

The Genome Insider podcast presents JGI-supported research by Kelly Wrighton and her team at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. With more than a dozen principal investigators, the group has a massive undertaking: sequencing the world’s river microbiomes. JGI is a user facility of the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science and located at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA. [Read More]

Natural Prodcast Episode 8: Eric Schmidt

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

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]

Genome Insider Episode 2: Role of Viruses in Releasing Greenhouse Gases? (2/2)

Genome Insider is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and TuneIn Radio. Subscribe today! The Genome Insider podcast presents research by Gary Trubl, a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. He’s using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses in the thawing arctic influence the flow of soil carbon. JGI is a user facility of the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science and located at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA. [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]