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… … DAN UDWARY: Hey, everyone! Welcome to the “Self Promotion Episode” of Natural Prodcast. A … first exposure, my junior year as an undergrad. And to me, looking at the chemistry of the molecules and then looking … terminal lake about 30 minutes away from campus. And we’re finding some really, really interesting compounds, and we’re …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … things. I’m going into architecture and I did that. And looking at all those art history photos of the, you know, … into fermenters. But what if that fermenter is not just a glass fermenter, but is the fermenter also known as our gut? …

… … DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural … say that. I mean, we just proposed something, and if people find it useful then we have a set of rules that we can stick … So the conservation depends on the genomic lineage you are looking at. So that’s why the term “central,” or “primary,” …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … things that we don’t recognize, because the only way to find things is by comparison. We’ll talk about that when we … products. And so we’ve got another slide here, and we’re looking at a hand drawing – drawn by Selman Waxman, who was …

… … DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural … it in the show notes. Which I’ll remind you, you can always find at naturalprodcast.com . You should know we’ve recorded … setup– and yours, too, Dan. DAN UDWARY: Yeah, you’re looking very professional. ALISON TAKEMURA: Thank you. You, …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … term for the special, natural chemical compounds that you find in plants, fungi and bacteria, basically all living … now. Maybe you want to describe that.  ALISON: Okay. We’re looking at a schematic of different pathways in a microbial …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … I’ll put some more info in the show notes, which you can find, along with a transcript at naturalproducts.com . We … cut his hair because it was too long. Well, when we went looking for a photo of John, we found one from the 70s in …

… … Dan Udwary: Hey, Alison Takemura: Hey, Dan. Dan Udwary: Today we’re going to talk to Kate Duncan. And Kate is– I … Duncan? Kate Duncan: Oh, goodness. I mean, if you were to find my scientific papers, that would be Katherine. Dan … since starting my own group is these tools, in terms of looking at the chemistry produced by microbes, they’re …

… now I’m working on this the afternoon of the day I’m due to release it, which is not ideal for me keeping myself on … went to group meeting and came back and it was just so fun looking at this as someone who had a bit more of a chemistry … for the first time getting excited about this. And so you find these clusters. And one can think about when we talk …

… in natural products right. There’s many different avenues toward chemistry. But that’s kind of where I had you. How … products chemists and biologists, natural products folks, looking at the tropics because of this immense amount of … well, why don’t we try to go to Alaska and see what we can find there. And so this was in part because the first time I …

… … DAN: All right. Welcome back to Natural Prodcast. I did it. I’m keeping to my schedule. … in enzymes to do some of the reactions that chemists find really challenging. So that balance is really fun. … you get a new organism or a genome, let's say, and you're looking at clusters, is there something that kind of …