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… … DAN: Hello, everyone, and Welcome back for Episode 14 of Natural Prodcast . There’s been a lot … big pathogen of wheat in cereal crops in Europe. And the molecule is derived from a natural product called UK2A that … help the Society grow. And so I’ve been the chair of the publications committee for the last, what is it now, five …

Doering and Bryce Foster and too many others to name at JGI for the last two years or so. SMC is now released and ready … as an undergrad. And to me, looking at the chemistry of the molecules and then looking at how they were made was really … And I think a lot of times, too, when we even look at publications, it’s always positive data, right? No one ever …

… not good at that, you guys. I’m trying really hard just for you. And the JGI Comms team. But mostly you. Anyway…I’m … actually are able to make some of these really interesting molecules, oftentimes much more efficiently than we can in … when I started doing a lot of this natural product production within bacteria, they're great at it, but it …

… and the bacteria and how the chemistry is going back and forth between them is part of what fascinates me about what … And we’ve done some work with those and have a couple of publications out there on the chemistry. There’s so much … Dan: Yeah. Well we need more people like you finding the molecules so then we can tie them back to the gene clusters …

Takemura, whose voice you’ll hear in a minute – we work for the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or … like there are there is a big importance on the kind of molecules that they’re sharing and expressing, and that it … about terms and so I will probably end up interchangeably using the term secondary metabolite and specialized …

… … DAN: Welcome back for episode 9 of Natural Prodcast. This week, Alison and I … was very much medicinal chemistry. My job was to make a molecule a day. And one of the things I wanted from that … from drug discovery in every possible disease target area, using an enormous array of different isolation strategies …

… … Dan Udwary: Hey everybody! Welcome back for Natural Prodcast episode 17. The guest we have this week … I think on COVID that we’re getting ready to submit for publication and have found some interesting hits for that as … And so I think that there are really interesting small molecules in nature that are just waiting to be found. …

… of secondary metabolism.  DAN: Hey there and welcome back for Episode 8 of Natural Prodcast. This week, we have our … interesting? And what we found is there are a lot of small molecules that are active, that are also found in the … you’d like to read more about this, I highly recommend his publication last year, “The Biosynthetic Diversity of the …

… so secondary metabolism is throughout nature, except maybe for animals and humans, not as much. You know, we have this … always, because it could be something that’s, it could be a molecule that’s embedded in their – what do you call that – … those those guys that move around or swarm – they might be using secondary metabolites to produce chemicals that would …

… metabolites across bacteria, fungi, algae and plants. These molecules, which are not essential for fundamental growth, provide critical advantages to the … and nutrient acquisition. However, secondary metabolite production is often not fully realized under standard …

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