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… sort of foundational starting point. And they would work linearly through all of the possibilities until they reached … to that here in North America. ALISON:  Yeah, and it does sound like your career has incorporated a lot of diversity. I mean, going to … Roger is a natural products chemist, and his research group works in metabolomics, drug discovery and screening, …

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… genome mining is, if I want to explain that to someone who doesn’t know much about genetics or anything else, science … The sequence tells you a lot, but it doesn’t tell you nearly everything. What I think a lot of people hope for is … TAKEMURA: Yeah, and if I were a grad student or an early career scientist looking to get involved in secondary …

… us that we want to talk a little bit about. It’s sort of early stages. But I think that is emblematic of some of the … And that was the beginning of what I wanted to do with my career. In order to really make that happen, I kept looking … concentration of calcium, and so on. And what difference does it make? The idea that you would say marine life make …

… University of Utah. I’ve known Eric for a long time – we worked together on Aflatoxin biosynthesis while he was a … metabolite peptides. And there are two ways that nature does this. The more well-known secondary metabolism systems … open up our field to other study. And so it was kind of an early example, to try to open that microbiome field. In the …

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… has been really, really fun. Alison Takemura: And then does that also– well, I guess the question really is, do … seminar series, chaired, and the speakers were all early career or mostly early career researchers. They have the … University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Dr Duncan’s work focuses on marine microbial chemical ecology. We also …

… because chemistry means a lot, especially when you’re working in natural products right. There’s many different … a postdoc and then a job.” Instead I got interested pretty early on regarding cancer medicines and I didn’t really know … I didn’t know how to get towards that.  Organic chemistry doesn’t really help with getting to something other than the …

… back for another episode of Natural Prodcast. Right now I’m working on this the afternoon of the day I’m due to release … Alison is no longer with us… She’s alive! She just doesn’t work for JGI anymore! [LAUGHTER] AARON PURI: Yeah. … biosynthetic gene clusters in your organism that you love dearly and can genetically manipulate. And yeah. And so …

… thought you were a good representative of maybe a different career trajectory than we sometimes see… MARC: Yeah, I’m a … all over the world in the next couple of years. DAN: What does it take to become a hub? MARC: We’re still trying to … geography doesn’t matter as much. But, you know, there’s clearly some, you know, equivalent to punctuated equilibrium …

… Dan, when you were supposed to visit us in the Netherlands early this summer, then it was– well, I think the day your … to start by saying, thank you for destroying my academic career, because things are much better now. Marnix Medema: … up a tiny bit and just say what antiSMASH actually is and does. Marnix Medema: Yeah. So antiSMASH. We built antiSMASH …

… know, in bacterial investigations. You’ve spent your whole career as far as I’m aware working on specifically fungal … in that area?   NANCY: Oh, well, I love fungi, okay, this doesn’t even have anything to use natural products … Those remain challenges.   DAN: Sure. I know it’s early on, but you do have a project with the JGI. It’s doing …