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… … DAN: Hello, everyone, and Welcome back for Episode 14 of Natural Prodcast . There’s been a lot … other JGI staff about secondary metabolism or anything you like. It should be really fun and interesting, so I hope … as the fermentation process itself. And we built a nice modeling feedback loop for the fermentation work, which …

… to environmental changes. The program lays the groundwork for sustainable solutions to current problems facing … learning algorithms for gene annotation and protein folding models, to improve the accuracy of functional predictions … distachyon is an annual grass researchers use as a model for grasses used to produce biomass, food, feed and …

… of secondary metabolism.  DAN: Hello, and welcome back for Episode 7 of the Natural Prodcast. It’s been about a … the metagenomics and gut microbiome, as I think that it’s like a perfect storm in terms of fundamental knowledge and … for drug applications. Is it any particular kinds of drugs? Like cancer-fighting, or…? BEN: Yeah. So, if I want to put …

… from the Great Salt Lake, and you’re going to learn, like me, what a “haboob” is. Then, we switch interview … Doering and Bryce Foster and too many others to name at JGI for the last two years or so. SMC is now released and ready … this episode went a little long, it’s definitely because we like talking about our science. So, sorry, but not really …

… … DAN: Welcome back for episode 9 of Natural Prodcast. This week, Alison and I … was the chance to see what the industrial life was like. And I think I learned that I’m more of an academic … we’d done by hand, in order to build a machine learning model that would look at all of the data that’s in PubMed, …

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… got into secondary metabolites? Kate Duncan: So I always liked science in school. I wouldn’t say I was one of these … I think it must’ve been about 2001, maybe, and so it was before smartphones and before laptops and everything. And I … and that are PhD students. And I think it’s a really nice model. I’d like to see more of this. It’s their ideas. So, …

… … DAN UDWARY: Hey, everyone. I’ve got a great episode for you here today. We got the opportunity to talk to one of … him. And I said, you know, I’m here to find a job. I would like to do something completely new. And that is to begin to … ever since the isolation of morphine, 1870 or something like that. And so people were well aware of natural products …

… – that is, a single gene makes messenger RNA, which encodes a single protein. Gene expression in eukaryotes was … of one of our species of algae and kept seeing what looked like mistakes by the gene prediction algorithms. I decided … research team included scientists at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, UCLA, UC Davis, Brookhaven National …

… … Dan Udwary: Hey everybody! Welcome back for Natural Prodcast episode 17. The guest we have this week … of academia, or if you want to understand what it’s like to do field science as a woman and with a physical … ever been in a room with or spoken directly to but I feel like I really know her. And that’s because she has a book …

… so secondary metabolism is throughout nature, except maybe for animals and humans, not as much. You know, we have this … that are known to be sources of secondary metabolites, like sponges were a really common source for people to try … embedded in their – what do you call that – I want to say like lipid bilayer, you know, in the cell.  DAN: It depends …

Takemura, whose voice you’ll hear in a minute – we work for the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or … some fun interviews, unless you want to fact check us. I like fact-checking, so go nuts. But here, in this first … of what you need to know is a Google search away! If you like these primer episodes, let me know by emailing us to …