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… DAN: Hey Marcy!  ALISON: Hey Marcy?  MARCY: Hello. How’s it going?  DAN: Good. How are you?  MARCY: Am fine. I … study of host-microbe chemistry. And the interactions– As much as we incorporate loads of different kinds of biology, … And we’ve done some work with those and have a couple of publications out there on the chemistry. There’s so much …

… of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI. JGI is a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence … talking about here. JGI, as an institution has recognized how important natural products are to understanding the … is a molecular biology term. We recorded the Primer as a much longer conversation, which I cut into more digestable …

… it. And just to remind you, you can get transcripts, and show notes with links to papers around the science we talked about, at natural prodcast dot com. So, here’s Betsy Parkinson! JACKIE: Well, welcome. … to today's podcast. BETSY PARKINSON: Awesome. Thank you so much for having me. Really excited to be here. DAN: Happy to …

… I needed more people to work on things, and to actually do some chemistry. And a few months after I submitted one of … you for destroying my academic career, because things are much better now. Marnix Medema: Well, I had no idea, Dan. … about today and it will be really good to maybe start with how did you get into this field? How did you get into …

… that city is where I first met Roger, when we were both postdocs at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Roger was … fun conversation with Roger about all this, in terms of how to build an international community collaboration, and … of importance to each host country. It was built very much on the foundations of sort of cooperative and …

… together on Aflatoxin biosynthesis while he was a postdoc in Craig Townsend’s lab at Johns Hopkins, where I was a … biosynthetic pathway, and I’ll have to do a whole show on it one of these days. If you listen to the Nancy … is taken care of.  DAN:  We haven’t had anybody talk too much about sponges, but sponges have been a big part of …

… “Adopt a Genome” is an informal program for faculty to “claim” … faculty will work with undergraduates in the analysis and publication of the claimed genome sequences. This … while nurturing a fresh cohort of users Reach the next generation of genome scientists and recruit new talent for …

… along with their associated viruses and mobile genetic elements. Beyond exploring and characterizing microbial diversity, work in the Metagenome Program uses several … and many other applications. By understanding how microbes contribute to ecosystem functions, the Program …

… The Fungal & Algal Program explores the vast diversity of fungi and algae to unlock their potential for … in their roles associated with plants (mycorrhizae, endophytes, growth promoters, or pathogens) and as the most … studies. These efforts seek to improve understanding of how fungi and algae contribute to ecosystems and industries. …

… sequences. As always, you’ll find transcripts and show notes with links to lots of other resources, especially … is, if I want to explain that to someone who doesn’t know much about genetics or anything else, science wise maybe, … and how we do it here and maybe give an example of a recent publication. ALISON TAKEMURA: Awesome. Yeah, let’s dive in, …

… the future. I highly recommend it. I’ll link to it in the show notes. Which I’ll remind you, you can always find at … I think that makes it really exciting because you see how much you can actually learn about it if you look into it … Usually, in a lot of cases, we still have to go through publications to get proteins, and their functions, and all …

… metabolomics fuels the discovery  of novel metabolites, genes, and proteins. It also enables exploration of energy … in living systems, particularly as they relate to DOE missions in the bioeconomy, sustainability, and … metabolomics with genomic data to gain insights into how small molecules function within plants, microbes, and …