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… of my favorite areas there, so I’m sure I’m going to have fun. Dan Udwary: Super. Alison Takemura: All right, I want … has increased in a lot of fields– still not, probably, 50-50 in things like physics and maths– but there’s actually …

Biodiversity Groups, and it’s this great program funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National … internally by making a list on the whiteboard of the top 50 journals that we thought were most likely to contain … for all of the articles from all of the issues for those 50 journals. For – [it] varied -something like 20 years, and …

Frontiers Group, the National Science Foundation (MCB-1244557 to J.A.D.) and the Lawrence Berkeley National … Laboratory’s Sustainable Systems Scientific Focus Area funded by the US Department of Energy (DE-AC02-05CH11231 to …

… biosynthetic pathways, which led her to a successfully funded JGI CSP project. And we also got to talk about work … what we were able to do is we-- from just an initial set of 500 of these PBP thioesterases, we were actually able to … grad student or undergrad, can go and actually have their 15 minute blocks. And so they're not true-- they're not …

… that do unusual or unprecedented chemistry. So it’s super fun to hear about what folks are up to in a slightly … today’s podcast. And with your background, this is pretty fun. We’ve been talking with a lot of people who actually … beautiful . It’s like, imagine like a conical tube, like a 50 mil Falcon tube, that visually looks like a piece of …

… episode is our conversation with Nancy Keller, a fantastic fungal natural products researcher from the University of … teach microbiology – “microbiology” – it’s almost 95% bacteria! What happened to all the other microbes? So … I don’t know, is 30 megabases? Basidiomyetes might get to 50. Some of them go to over 100. There. That can be the …

… out where I got the chance to do genome mining on more than 50,000 genomes that we derived from meta-genome sequences. … scientists who also do genome mining. We’ve got a great, fun bunch of little shows lined up, and I’m really looking … Yu et al, APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2004, 1253–1262, 70:3 ALISON TAKEMURA: And so did you succeed in …

… natural chemical compounds that you find in plants, fungi and bacteria, basically all living things. When your … first episode, and at the same time I’m going to release 5 other episodes so you can get a good feeling for what this … the field, you can probably skip straight on to Episodes 4 5 and 6, for some fun interviews, unless you want to fact …

… and Environmental Research, which is a program that funds JGI and most of the other biological research … So the minimum request is 100 kb. The maximum request is 500 kb. DAN UDWARY: For DNA synthesis. MIRANDA HARMON-SMITH: … getting approved because you requested only 100 kb versus 500 kb. In the lab, they’re going to do the whole set at one …

… metabolism or anything you like. It should be really fun and interesting, so I hope you’ll check it out. You can … was bioengineering bio-process R&D, BBRD, a group of about 75 people. So our biggest project was the spinosyn family of … throughput screening platform where we’d look at 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 mutants a week. We started doing a whole bunch …