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This continues our little sprint on genome mining. In the last episode , Alison and I talked about the basics of … our conversation with Marnix Medema , from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Marnix is still pretty young, … [Dan points to his URI T-shirt.] I was a professor at the University of Rhode Island. And was working on a natural …

… at the SIMB Natural Products conference, which took place last January 2020 in San Diego. San Diego, of course, is the … You know, my father Richard Moore was a professor at the University of Hawaii and moved there in the early ’60s from … budding field of marine natural products. And was at the university for over 40 years. There were four of us as kids …

… an Assistant Professor from the Chemistry department at the University of Utah, so that makes him one of Jackie’s … Puri here with us who is an assistant professor at the University of Utah in the Department of Chemistry. So … asking you know how did you get started. I know you’re not classically trained originally in natural products. And so do …

… organisms adapt to extreme environments, Marike Palmer and Brian Hedlund study organisms living in hot springs. Hear how …

… with Dr Elizabeth (or Betsy) Parkinson from Purdue University. She’s in the Department of Chemistry and the … JGI CSP project. And we also got to talk about work at her University on graduate student mental health, and an … us a little bit of your background because you do-- you're classically trained as a synthetic chemist. BETSY PARKINSON: …

And it’s our conversation with Nadine Ziemert from the University of Tübingen in Germany. Like me, she’s a genome … person to talk to tonight. We have Nadine Ziemert from University of Tübingen. And did I pronounce your last name correctly, Nadine? NADINE ZIEMERT: Yes, perfect. …

… being an optical engineering major after which was really laser physics, and then I switched to chemical engineering … there are folks that are lucky enough to have them at their University. We are not one of them. And so our throughput … So I work on this project with Jonathan Klassen here at the University of Connecticut. And he has been looking at these …

… want to note that this episode will be monumental as the last episode with Alison as my co-host. We recorded this an … Institution of Oceanography, which of course is part of the University of California San Diego. I walked into the … of most of us in that he came from Europe, and went to the University of Hawaii, and immediately started thinking about …

… stuff together. It’s been kind of a theme, I think, in the last couple of conversations that we’ve had on this podcast, … was actually when I was traveling at the end of first year University. Quite a lot of people in Europe do this … there were internet cafes, but I waited until I was back at University, so it must be about a month, a month and a half …

… to talk about all the cool work she’s doing over at the University of Utah. So, you’ll be hearing about microbiology … and Bryce Foster and too many others to name at JGI for the last two years or so. SMC is now released and ready for the … PhD in Brad Moore’s group and joined his lab when he was at University of Arizona. And I think a month later, we packed …

Marc is a postdoc in Jo Handelsman’s group at the University of Wisconsin, where, among lots of other things, … in general. And her efforts first at Yale and now at University of Wisconsin and the Institute for Discovery … asking students and undergraduate and high school level classrooms to (A) become engaged with STEM and learn about …