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I really do want you all to hear this great conversation with Aaron Puri. He is an Assistant Professor from the … one of Jackie’s colleagues. Aaron is doing some cool stuff with cool bacteria that I’m fascinated to learn more about. He works with methylotrophs, which are a group of carbon-fixing …

… pathways. And today, we get to present our conversation with Marnix Medema , from Wageningen University in the … metabolism over the last decade or so. He’s involved with a lot of the common tools that genome miners use, … it this way. So before there were basically two ways of dealing with sequence similarity, either we just looked at …

In our warming world, we’ll need corn, sorghum and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: with more heat, less water and less fertilizer. Grasses do …

Metabolism Collaboratory data portal I’ve been working on with my colleagues Drew Doering and Bryce Foster and too … notes at naturalprodcast.com — I went a little overboard with links on this, since I’m hoping this episode and the … made, how do you test the bioactivity, how do you tinker with the machinery. And so it really is a blend of a lot of …

Sugarcane was the last major crop without a reference quality genome and now crop researchers … production. A reference genome for the sugarcane cultivar R570 has been  published in  Nature by an international consortium. With the genetic code of sugarcane, researchers were able to …

… and we talk about an ongoing project I’ve been working with him on as an exploration into the secondary metabolism … territory for us, and I’m grateful to be working with him, and so happy we got the chance to record this … that this episode will be monumental as the last episode with Alison as my co-host. We recorded this an awfully long …