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… episodes, but it’s not terrible. I was able to clean it up quite a bit, and the conversation was so interesting that I wanted to include it. This is a conversation with Marc Chevrette. Marc is a postdoc in Jo Handelsman’s … for antibiotics and the microbes that make them is in the soil. There’s … uh… there’s an issue there though, in that …

… plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial activity teems … there is a striking division of labor between the two groups. Fungi are much more active in degrading plant matter, … Pinpointing the processes happening on and in forest soil also better enriches models of global carbon and …

… and we talk about an ongoing project I’ve been working with him on as an exploration into the secondary metabolism … So really happy to have you here today. There’s a couple of things I want to make sure that we talk about. You … many others, including Streptomycetes, which are common soil bacteria. DAN UDWARY: Yeah, we talk about them a lot …

… the exploration of secondary metabolites across bacteria, fungi, algae and plants. These molecules, which are not essential for fundamental growth, provide critical advantages to the organisms producing them, and … to tap into the largely unexplored biochemical diversity within secondary metabolites, expanding their potential …

… episode 12 of Natural Prodcast. And it’s our conversation with Nadine Ziemert from the University of Tübingen in … Yeah, we’re doing this from home. And my own podcasting setup– and yours, too, Dan. DAN UDWARY: Yeah, you’re looking … of these environments? NADINE ZIEMERT: So we started with soil. But we also have, in collaboration with other people, …

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… out every two weeks. This time, we’ve got a great interview with Ben Shen, from the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter Florida. This interview is another one we recorded at … national resources. So, you may know the so-called Nagoya protocol, which prevents taking bio-resources from the native …

… Studying bacteria and archaea, including those associated with microeukaryotes, enhances our understanding of terrestrial biogeochemical cycling and … addressing key environmental challenges, such as improving soil health, carbon sequestration and bioeconomy … functions and interactions, the Microbial Program supports innovations in sustainable agriculture, carbon …

… to a regular schedule. I’m going to kick things off today with my interview with the Director of the Joint Genome … in developing natural products for agriculture, and his upcoming new role as the Society for Industrial Microbiology … around with Bacillus spores for a long time for food spoilage kind of testing, applications. And that’s funny …

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