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… pathways. And today, we get to present our conversation with Marnix Medema , from Wageningen University in the … really good to maybe start with how did you get into this field? How did you get into natural products? Marnix Medema: … it this way. So before there were basically two ways of dealing with sequence similarity, either we just looked at …

… kinds of biology, one of the best things that we do is work with this really great group of biologists that know what … to get towards that.  Organic chemistry doesn’t really help with getting to something other than the sort of really … Yeah. And so that was amazing but it didn’t have enough field work. And so I ended up as a postdoc Panama as part of …

… we’re going to be presenting some conversations we had with scientists in the field of natural products. So, it’s a departure from the … just from a data standpoint, just figuring out introns and dealing with, you know, weirdness in the sequence. You know, … This is episode 4 of Natural Prodcast, our interview with Dr Nancy Keller from the University of Wisconsin, …

… and looking for molecules from the very beginning of the field. I learned a lot so much history from this … and we talk about an ongoing project I’ve been working with him on as an exploration into the secondary metabolism … territory for us, and I’m grateful to be working with him, and so happy we got the chance to record this …

… earlier this year. And today we have our conversation with Professor Alison Narayan, from the University of … of flavin monooxygenases, and more broadly about the field of biocatalysis and what needs to be done across … too. Thanks for listening! And enjoy this conversation with Alison Narayan. JACKIE WINTER: Well, Welcome, everyone. …

… Studying bacteria and archaea, including those associated with microeukaryotes, enhances our understanding of … sequencing technologies to explore microbial diversity — with an emphasis on bacteria and archaea, and including those associated with microeukaryotes. The program also studies giant …