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… … DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural … technologies or uses or applications– are the evolutionary nature of these compounds. At the end of the day, all the … BARONA-GOMEZ: Yeah, so any metabolite, produced by bacterial or fungal metabolism by microbes, will have a …

… … 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 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 … lots of great and fascinating seminars, focusing on actinobacterial biology and chemistry. …

… … 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: 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 …

… 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: 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 …

… … 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 …

If you stick around for the next few months, you’re going to hear my last interview with my co-host Alison Takemura, who’s moved on from JGI to do real journalism, and we wish her all the best. Later … on, I’ll introduce my new co-host, who I’m really excited to be working with, and I think you all will be too. But, …