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… DAN: You’re listening to the US. .Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … we have no idea what natural products are doing in nature. And it’s a really difficult thing to unpack … of the opinion that on the geological timescale, that most bacterial natural product systems evolved, you know, a …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … and scientists of secondary metabolism.  DAN: Welcome back to Natural Prodcast! This is episode 4! From here on out, … been dominated for … well, as long as I can remember, by bacterial research.  So it was great to hear her passion and …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … fundamentals. What is beautiful for natural products is nature! Nature does this sort of – if you think of nature as … this collection in total contains approximately 100,000 bacterial strains, and a hundred thousand fungal strains. …

… Dan Udwary: Hey, Alison Takemura: Hey, Dan. Dan Udwary: Today we’re going to talk to Kate Duncan. And Kate is– I should ask, you are Kate … work with actinomycete bacteria, then you absolutely need to know about, and contribute to ActinoBase.org . It’s a … lots of great and fascinating seminars, focusing on actinobacterial biology and chemistry. …

… DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural … did? What we’re talking about here is a paper published in Nature Biotechnology, titled ‘A genomic catalog of Earth’s … of Earth’s Microbiomes. And what this is, is a data set of bacterial and archaeal genomes that were created – these are …

… 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 bacterial side of the field, and it’s a little hard to find … us on Twitter at  @JGI  or  @danudwary , or by email to  [email protected] . We’d love to get your feedback! …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … in a microalgae. There were four genes there. Not like a bacterial gene cluster, but they were still clustered in the … of those, you know, early-on reactions that we see. And so nature does that as well. But it does it with exquisite …

… DAN UDWARY: Hey, everyone! Welcome to the “Self Promotion Episode” of Natural Prodcast. A … I’m off schedule, but this is an important one that wanted to get out there as soon as possible. Not one of our normal … million BGCs in the database on the release, and that’s the bacterial stuff. Could be more. [CHUCKLES] I’m not quite …

… episode 9 of Natural Prodcast. This week, Alison and I talk to Roger Linington, from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, … understand the chemical diversity and chemical utility that nature has to offer us. I found this conversation really … This episode features our conversation with Roger Linington , from Simon Fraser University . Roger is a natural …

… metabolites, and specialized metabolites all refer to the chemicals that make species unique and different from one another. They are incredibly important to medicine, the environment, and human health. As the JGI … Prodcast” serves as an important line of communication to the scientific community. Host Dan Udwary talks to …

… Dan Udwary: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural … and domains, to identify enzyme coding genes that are signatures for the presence of a specific type of biosynthetic … Integrated Microbial Genomics at JGI, a large data set of bacterial genomes. And so yeah, we use antiSMASH to identify …

… for fundamental growth, provide critical advantages to the organisms producing them, and are often involved in … products and bioenergy crop enhancement. The program aims to tap into the largely unexplored biochemical diversity within … bacteria, fungi, algae and plants. These compounds are key to organisms' interactions with their environments and with …