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… Program, which I was hired into, and my job is to do cool research, and also to talk to the wider natural … is a chemical compound called geosmin that’s produced by soil bacteria that live all over the place. So that smell of … tell.  ALISON: It could be bacterial blankets, or coats, or water bottles, in a metaphor…. DAN: Or because they’re …

… enediynes – that’s a class of natural product with a really cool chemical structure. We try to explain it, but it’s … you as “the enediyne guy”. And so enediynes are this really cool class of natural product compounds, Alison. They are – … Right, because they’re so reactive. BEN: …going back to the 1950s. But the structure of which was not known until the …

… energy and environmental challenges. Within days of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that dumped nearly five million barrels of … described the early efforts in his keynote talk at JGI’s 2011 Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting: “What we …

… metabolism. Hey everybody, this is Dan with episode 13 of National Prodcast. This continues our little section … audio editing suite I use which had some nice magic that clean things up. So I didn’t get to talk to him about more … to look for. Right? And so I think your approach is really cool because you can find things that you wouldn’t know to …

… in chemistry with a hobby of putting your head underwater. But thankfully that worked out. And I spent 30, 40 … time. Well, finally we convince people that we could get cool things. And so about the same time– this was around … many others, including Streptomycetes, which are common soil bacteria. DAN UDWARY: Yeah, we talk about them a lot …

… PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from a local dry-cleaner. Researchers  identified two bacteria,  … rely heavily on groundwater as their only source of clean drinking water. Over 90% of the PCE in the groundwater has …

… around with Bacillus spores for a long time for food spoilage kind of testing, applications. And that’s funny … on I worked with Bacillus for quite a while.  DAN: That’s cool that your dad inspired you because my kids have no … [LAUGHTER] We were just trying to keep our head above water and find cool things. So it was a very research …

… by exploring plants’ role in capturing carbon, detoxifying soils, interacting with other organisms, and adapting to … of how plants have naturally adapted to varied climate and soil conditions around the globe to identify genes to improve … services through a user-facility model.  doi: 10.2172/3014442 …

… on the amazing John Faulkner’s work, who passed away about 17 years ago now. It looked really interesting. He was … a few talks on that. Can you tell us why cone snails are so cool? ERIC:  So cone snails are basically shelled mollusks … this because one of the compounds that I thought was really cool – found in marine animals – was a peptide. And we had …

… coast in the Adriatic Sea, and I thought, wouldn’t it be cool to look at these– it was actually marine invertebrates … inside them. And this was, I think it must’ve been about 2001, maybe, and so it was before smartphones and before … It was the first year that they offered this. And the cool thing about it was that it had an international …