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… Doering and Bryce Foster and too many others to name at JGI for the last two years or so. SMC is now released and … his lab when he was at University of Arizona. And I think a month later, we packed up and moved to SIO, UCSD. So I was … about natural products. So in Brad’s lab, I worked on identifying and characterizing haloperoxidases from bacteria. …

… and head of the Secondary Metabolites Science Program at JGI, and also my boss, Nigel Mouncey. I got him on to talk … dad never forced it on me, but we always had these scientific news magazines lying around at home. And I would just … slides that float around here, there is a term called “Earth’s Secondary Metabolome.” Do you want to explain to …

… secondary metabolite peptides. And there are two ways that nature does this. The more well-known secondary metabolism … can use peptides for! That’s what his collaboration with JGI is all about, and we talk about it a bit here. I have … our specialty. That’s where most diversity of life on earth is located. ALISON:  Have you been continuing the …

… Duncan: Oh, goodness. I mean, if you were to find my scientific papers, that would be Katherine. Dan Udwary: Right. … until I was back at University, so it must be about a month, a month and a half later. In September, I went to a … you have a question, or want to give us feedback, tweet us @JGI or to me @danudwary. That’s D-A-N U-D-W-A-R-Y. If you …

… bit embarrassed that we recorded this conversation about 10 months ago. I was pretty green at the time and had some … thing. Another way to approach it is more related to what JGI does, which is sequence genomes. And we just published … behind these stories, because what we want to learn are lessons that can be translated into applications, not the …

… you can always find at naturalprodcast.com or through the JGI website at jgi.doe.gov . There’s a lot more to talk … been sitting on all these great interviews recorded a few months ago at the SIMB Natural Products meeting and it’s … all sorts of different colors. I mean, where else in nature– and they’re not fungal. Where else nature can you go …

… Celebrating 25 years of genomics research 2022 marked the JGI’s 25th anniversary. We revisited a number … energy and environmental challenges.  Commissioned for the JGI’s 25th anniversary, the JGI mural references dozens of …

… things I want to make sure that we talk about. You have a JGI project going with us that we want to talk a little bit … long time, he said, guess what, I’m going to give you nine months of salary and a lousy job with no future. And let’s … we couldn’t get a lot of chemical compound from a beautiful coral reef animal. We didn’t want to collect all of …

… today who said “Oh, the ITS which we thought would identify to species”… he’s now found that some fungi have … actually, everything is funding, right, isn’t it? I thank JGI for sequencing a lot of fungi. But the thing with them – … I know it’s early on, but you do have a project with the JGI. It’s doing some some fungal genome sequencing, I …

… round of episodes. If you stick around for the next few months, you’re going to hear my last interview with my co-host Alison Takemura, who’s moved on from JGI to do real journalism, and we wish her all the best. … things around nuclear security, energy production, and scientific research, especially at US National Labs, like …

… the fact that many of our modern medicines are derived from nature, and in many cases from plants. And so I think of … people aspects of things, because a lot of what we do at JGI in terms of the sequencing that we do is very … or terrestrial biodiversity hotspots that we have on Earth, most of those occur in nations that have very poor …

… . You should know we’ve recorded this a few months ago when we were at the height of the initial spread … know a lot about them by their mate, what their role in nature, how have they been selected for or how do they … was fascinating, I think. DAN UDWARY: Yeah, and that was a JGI Community Sequencing Project. You’re right, yeah. NADINE …