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… 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, …

… 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 …

… 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 …