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… … DAN: Hey, everybody. Welcome back for another episode of Natural Prodcast. Right now I’m … the genes for and explore the chemistry of quorum sensing systems, specifically the acyl homoserine lactones.  If you … the project his name is Dale Pelletier and he’s from Oak Ridge National Lab . He’s an amazing microbiologist. And some …

… … Dan Udwary: Hey everybody! Welcome back for Natural Prodcast episode 17. The guest we have this week … born with a lot of different birth defects of my skeletal system. So I was missing bones and I had to have a lot of … there wasn’t much infrastructure available, especially to researchers just starting out as they’re trying to form …

I think it must’ve been about 2001, maybe, and so it was before smartphones and before laptops and everything. And I … And as a result, there’s been a lot of work on open pond systems and infrastructure and growing microalgae. And to … and that are PhD students. And I think it’s a really nice model. I’d like to see more of this. It’s their ideas. So, …

… it’s a little hard to find in print, but we live in the information age and the ebook version is available at most … DAN: Well, it is and it isn’t. It depends on different systems of secondary metabolism and the things that are in … to go ahead and, and synthesize those genes within a model organism like E.coli , and have it produce the …

… … DAN: Welcome back for episode 9 of Natural Prodcast. This week, Alison and I … has gone on, the more we’ve become interested in sort of systems level approaches. So rather than asking one question … we’d done by hand, in order to build a machine learning model that would look at all of the data that’s in PubMed, …

… and the bacteria and how the chemistry is going back and forth between them is part of what fascinates me about what … think might be happening, we’re sort of converging on this model of this being called an egg defense model. And so … to that and what you guys do when you’re exploring your systems. Because I think the JGI has a little bit of a …