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… does some really exciting work there. And I thought, well, why don’t we try to go to Alaska and see what we can find … with any kind of gene cluster identification, doing it with sequence alone you have to have some kind of a template to … between chemistry and sequence to get anywhere. Like that’s why I say the more you know, the more you know because it …

… our User Program’s Community Science Program, the JGI sequenced and characterized 270 genomes of the Clostridium … To meet these needs, the JGI deploys state-of-the-art sequencers and platforms dedicated to DNA synthesis, …

… And at the time, it was really exciting when people would sequence [DNA]. The genome was– well, that hadn’t really … polyketide synthase and then P3. We still don’t know why 20 years later. JACKIE WINTER: It’s pretty amazing, … And that’s what I really wanted to do. And that’s why I came back to academia. And I set that up. And we …

… is like, what’s your origin story in natural products? Why are you doing this? JACLYN WINTER: I’ll kind of go back … that I never anticipated starting– that’s not why I came to the University of Utah– is looking at the … have an E. coli strain that we’ve been working on that we sequenced the genome. And it has 17 resistant genes on a …

… at genomes and seeing where the really hard things to sequence were, and wondering what those … what those were … functional was these secondary metabolite pathways. So why was that? What is it about secondary metabolite pathways … favorite examples of a secondary metabolite producer, and why they produce those metabolites? MARC: Well, I’m really …

… The genes are pretty much 100% identical. We don't know why one is expressed over the other. As far as whether we're … usually serve as dimers, and then they will bind to certain sequences of DNA. And when they bind to those certain … are capable of making those strange ring systems. JACKIE: Why? Is it just because of ring strain or is it-- I guess, …

… We focus our efforts on integrating database mining and sequence design with scaling the production of large, … developing methods for converting digital information from sequence databases into biotechnological or environmental …

… learned a lot so much history from this conversation about why the ocean was basically unexplored until the 70s, and … about his move to microbiology, about drug discovery and why it’s so hard to succeed, and we talk about an ongoing … forward to seeing the data when it finally gets off the sequencers. The pandemic has obviously slowed JGI down a …

… I request a culture/slant/DNA of an organism that has been sequenced at the JGI? …

… able to explore DNA sequencing and actually get to the DNA sequence – sequences for the genes that code for the … Something that’s you know …  ALISON: Central! DAN: That’s why they called it that! But for, maybe, people who are less … biology perspective, like if you have a cluster of genes, why can’t you just engineer you know, a promoter or an …

… of their synthases so that we can start to use the DNA sequence to predict or just understand better the language … your interest in getting into natural products. DAN: Why are you here at SIMB? AARON PURI: Yeah. Thanks Jackie. … JGI and this was before they were integrated. So I thought, why not feed it in there. And I went to group meeting and …

… comprising the largest public collection of plasmid sequences identified from genomes, SAGs, MAGs, metagenomes …