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… learned a lot so much history from this conversation about why the ocean was basically unexplored until the 70s, and … today, run full-fledged marine chemical ecology programs. Two of the great students are in Georgia, in Atlanta, at … forward to seeing the data when it finally gets off the sequencers. The pandemic has obviously slowed JGI down 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 … sending signals. But really unpacking that complicated network of chemistry and communication is what I’m really …

… 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. … scientific audience whereas now I’m sitting here with two people who know way more about natural products than I …

… at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I had a two body problem, and it was a really great opportunity to … 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 …

… welcome back to a new session of Natural Prodcast. I’ve got two things I wanted to tell you about in this introduction. … 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, …

… mining, and how we might start to better connect those two things, because I think that’s ultimately what needs to … Apple Podcasts or wherever you’re getting this and tell me why you’re listening. DAN: But, now, here’s Natural Prodcast … And that’s been followed by developments in pulse sequences and improvements in the ways in which you acquire …

… capabilities support researchers exploring how to convert sequence into functional assessments. This is done by … design tool  … BOOST provides a suite of tools to automate sequence design for assembly by Gibson, Yeast recombination …

… resequencing, RNA sequencing and epigenomics. Expansion of sequence space:  The JGI generates reference genomes from … of microbial communities based on their metagenome sequence, in the context of reference isolate genomes …

… on the way – I’m going to try to keep them coming out every two weeks for a while – so I hope you’ll be listening. But … first batch of episodes that I did at the SIMB meeting … two years ago? Yeah, it would be two years ago.  NIGEL … to some people more about down the road. Email Nigel! He’ll sequence whatever you want!  [LAUGHTER]  NIGEL MOUNCEY: We …

… stories about natural products, so you can get a feel for why I think they’re so important, and we’ll start to explain … more about some of the background and sort of the reasons why we want to do this. And also to provide a little more … of the fun things that I hope that I can express today is why secondary metabolism is interesting and why it is that …

DAN: Alright, so I think we’ve covered a little bit about why they’re important. But one of the things I did want to … – how bacteria or other organisms communicate and how and why secondary metabolites are being produced in the … live in the root nodules of plants. And these guys were sequenced, and you can see that different Frankia have …

… about Antarctica, and we want to talk about molecular networking, because I really enjoyed the review that you wrote … Duncan: Yeah. I love actinomycetes. Dan Udwary: Tell us why. I mean, I know, but I think– Alison Takemura: I want to … of almost finished characterizing them. We’ve got genome sequences, which are just incredible. We’ve looked at the …