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But um, yeah, so secondary metabolism is throughout nature, except maybe for animals and humans, not as much. … for secondary metabolism, they are copies and changes that nature has made. So secondary metabolism is adaptation of … compounds that probably kill other bacteria, and give them home field advantage. ALISON: Okay. Wow, it’s so weird how …

… always had these scientific news magazines lying around at home. And I would just pick them up and look at the pictures … at the integrative genomics building, Berkeley Lab, our home.  DAN: Oh, I haven’t heard anything about this plan. … MOUNCEY: And give people a chance to see our amazing new home.  DAN: Very nice. All right, cool. Hopefully everything …

… recommend David Hopwood’s book called  “Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine.” It’s obviously focused more on the … of ways in terms of, you know, just being able to harness nature to do complicated chemical reactions for us. ALISON: … and then what their function might be. Whether that’s in nature, or whether there’s some utility for humans in any …

… how funny, you know, the human endeavor of understanding nature is: we want to categorize things into these arbitrary … to understand all of the amazing biological chemistry in nature! In this introductory episode, Alison Takemura and …

… all sorts of different colors. I mean, where else in nature– and they’re not fungal. Where else nature can you go see colonies of bacteria just growing? … of Warp Drive’s great ideas was to pick a lead and then use nature’s SAR by having large, large sequence collections. …

ALISON TAKEMURA: That’s right. Yeah, we’re doing this from home. And my own podcasting setup– and yours, too, Dan. DAN … know a lot about them by their mate, what their role in nature, how have they been selected for or how do they … where I did my PhD later. And she happened to work with nature products from cyanobacteria. So that’s how I started. …

WINTER: It doesn’t end well for anyone. I’ve had to walk home a couple of times last time when we’ve had those …

… where are you right now? Marnix Medema: I’m in my room at home. Or actually not my room, it’s the room of my little … and domains, to identify enzyme coding genes that are signatures for the presence of a specific type of biosynthetic … cluster. And antiSMASH has a library of those kinds of signature domains and it looks for particular combinations of …

I’m part of a global non-for-profit organization called Homeward Bound. I’m a faculty member and I co-lead the science program for a few of the cohorts. So Homeward Bound is a global non-for-profit that focuses on … positions and doing something proactive about that. So Homeward Bound is a global initiative for women in science …