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UDWARY: It’s been a while, but Natural Prodcast is back again for another round of episodes. If you stick around for … in addition to sequencing, we offer metabolomics and also DNA synthesis. And we consider these capabilities a little … genomes. Fungal plant, algal genomes, a lot of effort goes into generating these data sets. There’s a lot of manual …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … – problems that might need special technology for DNA sequencing, genomics, metabolomics, and synthetic … Secondary Metabolites Science Program, which I was hired into, and my job is to do cool research, and also to talk to …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … with a ribosome. Then, some other enzymes chop the protein into smaller pieces, and other enzymes might make other kids … and so on that we can consult in designing pieces of DNA that we can use to test these issues. The second area …

… of natural products, Professor Bill Fenical from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. Bill is a pioneer of marine natural products, getting into the ocean and looking for molecules from the very … We now have cell pellets. And we’re pulling genomic DNA out of those cell pellets. So, we’re about ready to send …

… question. Kate, can you tell me the story of how you got into secondary metabolites? Kate Duncan: So I always liked … 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, … to hear from you. We have projects in genome sequencing, DNA synthesis, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and natural …