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… . And I’ll be sure I put that link in the show notes, which you can always find through the JGI website … of natural products and secondary metabolites.  DAN: Right. How much of that can you tell us about?  NIGEL MOUNCEY: I … find related clusters. But it is remarkable that it hasn’t shown up very frequently in people’s screenings. And the …

… them enough lately, but as always I have transcripts and show notes at naturalprodcast.com — I went a little overboard … at the chemistry of the molecules and then looking at how they were made was really interesting and intriguing to … And I could combine my passions in different areas to study how these molecules made, how do you test the bioactivity, …

… and many other applications. By understanding how microbes contribute to ecosystem functions, the Program … potential. This research enables us to better understand how microbial communities contribute to critical processes …

… it. And just to remind you, you can get transcripts, and show notes with links to papers around the science we talked … to be here. DAN: Happy to have you do it. So, I don't know how we start out. Where are we going to go from here? JACKIE: Well, how about you just give us a little bit of your background …

… about today and it will be really good to maybe start with how did you get into this field? How did you get into natural products? Marnix Medema: Well, … hope that it would get funded. And like yours, it didn’t. However – and this was a proposal on synthetic biology of …

… of Utah in the Department of Chemistry. So welcome. DAN: How do we introduce Aaron? JACKIE: How would you like to be introduced, Aaron? I guess because … products, so I might just start out by asking you know how did you get started. I know you’re not classically …

… were, and wondering what those … what those were and how they function. So I worked on a team at the Broad that … these damn secondary metabolite pathways. So that’s kind of how I fell down the rabbit hole. I was curious about what they were, what they were doing in these genomes and how they change over time. And yeah, I mean, that was let’s …