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… to get a great look at the intersection of traditional medicines and medicinal plants with the pursuit of modern … when I was three and almost died of an infection following the amputation. So I had this kind of oddball … I don’t have a question. I’m just wanting to probe that topic a little bit. CASSANDRA QUAVE: Oh, absolutely. This is …

… is actually-- might be better, especially in really low-yielding products. We're interested in some of the … Natural Prodcast episodes  here .   Show Notes Some of the topics we cover in this episode: Synthetic Natural Product … Betsy's lab webpage and the page on the From Microbes to Medicines outreach program JGI Release on DAP-Seq: Enlarging …

… were a really common source for people to try to find new medicines for a long time. But we know now that most of … infections in people that are pretty unpleasant. And at the top of this photograph, or one corner of it, you see this … of a colony. This is a zoomed in photo of a really blown up colony of Streptomyces.  ALISON: It’s wild. It kind …

… cluster per week. And that really got me excited. And I stopped thinking about doing a postdoc and went to industry … we didn’t even sequence the whole genome. We just did a low-resolution shotgun pass where we sequenced 500 runs. And … the SIMB posters we mentioned at the end: Henry Schares:  https://sim.confex.com/sim/np2023/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/46926 …

… you are interested in drug discovery, you would like to follow the winners. So natural products is clearly a winner. … general. DAN: All right, that sounds like a great place to stop. So Ben, thank you so much for talking with us today. … . Thanks, and see you next time!  Transcribed in part by https://otter.ai … Episode Transcript …   … This is our …

NIGEL MOUNCEY: And so biology and microbiology just followed me all the way through my high school days in … to get obviously materials and process descriptions that allowed us to at least firstly set up a baseline process. And … directed genomics approaches, DAPseq and the stabilized isotope probing work that we’re doing, single cell work we’re …

… episode. These are episodes where Alison and I talk about a topic or kind of a subdiscipline in the natural products or … secondary metabolism, those things that we want to find are medicines. Medicine has always been the main driver for … If you want to collaborate, let us know. Find out more at https://jgi.doe.gov/user-programs . Thanks, and see you next …

I mean, what made you want to work in natural products following him? I know a lot of people sort of veer off and go … And when they solved that structure, that quickly allowed, then, JGI to then close the genome because they could … a lot of fun in, is really thinking about how one delivers medicines for tomorrow. And we typically think of medicines …