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… DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … know a lot about them by their mate, what their role in nature, how have they been selected for or how do they … ALISON TAKEMURA: So Nadine, what got you interested in studying natural products? NADINE ZIEMERT: Like almost …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … genomic revolution, to me, as a natural part chemist for microbial natural product, is that I love microbial natural … the production of the natural product. So that was my PhD study, and then towards the end of my PhD study, then …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … recommend David Hopwood’s book called  “Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine.” It’s obviously focused more on the … there. So once you could sequence DNA, then it was just a matter of time before some secondary metabolism gets …

… Hey Marcy!  ALISON: Hey Marcy?  MARCY: Hello. How’s it going?  DAN: Good. How are you?  MARCY: Am fine. I live in a … now?  MARCY: Sure. So my lab has really converged on the study of host-microbe chemistry. And the interactions– As … tell us about this squid-microbe relationship. Or is it a microbial community with microbial community relationship?  …

… right. Welcome back to Natural Prodcast. I did it. I’m keeping to my schedule. This should be coming out on the first … outreach program to get kids interested in microbiology and microbial chemistry. All good stuff, and I hope you enjoy … antibiotics or antifungals in there. So they get just a smattering. JACKIE: That would be an introduction to natural …

… in natural products as an undergrad. So for me, it was studying sort of the interface of chemistry and biology … I mean, you’re in Northern California, and it doesn’t matter where they are. You still get the air. Air is not … are familiar with JGI’s IMG data portal , the Integrated Microbial Genomics, there was a subsection of that called …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a podcast about … this, is that I don’t have an awareness of how to go about studying them. Like to me, fungi are, you know, how do you … This is episode 4 of Natural Prodcast, our interview with Dr Nancy Keller from the University of …

… Dan Udwary: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … what was this bacterium, and why did your group want to study it? Marnix Medema: You mean the PhD project that I … IMG kind of hooks into IMG’s data. IMG being Integrated Microbial Genomics at JGI, a large data set of bacterial …

… is Professor Cassandra Quave from Emory University, with joint appointments in the School of Medicine and College of … And for the audience, ethnobotany is the scientific study of the ways that people interact with plants, whether … that we found, indeed, that both formulations had some antimicrobial properties. But the one that was used in …

… for another episode of Natural Prodcast. Right now I’m working on this the afternoon of the day I’m due to release it, … to predict or just understand better the language of microbial cell-cell communication. And he told us about his … compounds like methanol and methane. And I really dove into microbial physiology and microbial genetics, and really away …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … But um, yeah, so secondary metabolism is throughout nature, except maybe for animals and humans, not as much. … secrete a lot more things than people do…? Although I don’t study people so maybe I’m wrong. But yeah, I mean, because I …

… for Episode 14 of Natural Prodcast . There’s been a lot going on, so I took a little break, but I’m hoping that from … I did my undergraduate in microbiology and then PhD in microbial genetics in the UK. And came across to the US for … And these were not in natural products, these were in studying regulatory mechanisms of, first, E. coli and then …