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Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant …

… welcome back for Episode 7 of the Natural Prodcast. It’s been about a month now since we dropped our first six … with Ben Shen, from the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter Florida. This interview is another one we recorded at … and synthetic biology. But also the metagenomics and gut microbiome, as I think that it’s like a perfect storm in …

… was pretty crazy at that time. Dan: And Bill and Paul had been doing a lot of isolation from that organism and … a glass fermenter, but is the fermenter also known as our gut? And can you be able to re engineer the gut microbiota to deliver medicines to humans? That’s something …

BETSY PARKINSON: Yeah. So, palladium catalyzed cross-coupling-- DAN: Got it. BETSY PARKINSON: --all that jazz. But … it definitely influences a lot of what I do. I mean, it's been really fun to merge the chemical synthesis with some of … turn off these biosynthetic gene clusters. And so we've been really interested in trying to find new hormones that …

… in the Netherlands. Marnix is still pretty young, but he’s been dead center and a lot of the really important recent … who inherited this room from her sister. And it was supposed to be her room now but, well, it became my office … me to collect little stories and then share them at the dinner table. Marnix Medema: Yeah. I can imagine that it is …

… in any living organism are proteins, which are made up of chains of amino acids. “Peptide” is just another word … Eric taught me an awful lot about chemistry. And he has been a good friend in my life. And so I’m very happy to be … off. Dedication. So.. DAN:  Yeah, I think anybody who’s been around Scripps [Institution of Oceanography] has heard …

This is part 2 of our “primer” episode, so if you ended up here somehow without having listened to the first part, … another – to sort of know if their neighbors had already been to a location or something by leaving sort of a … of bacteria and the things that they’re doing in the human gut. Turns out, there’s a lot of chemistry happening there – …

… more about. He works with methylotrophs, which are a group of carbon-fixing bacteria that I would say are are still … SIMB, and any minute now you’ll hear about something I’ve been working on for what feels like forever, and we also … an outsider in this community although both of you have been so wonderful. I think it’s a really welcoming field. …

… our second season of Natural Prodcast. This first episode up is another primer episode. These are episodes where … taken a little bit of time off. Genome Insider still has been coming out, but I have been a slacker. We’ve had all … some marine. There’s some soil samples. There’s human gut samples. There’s lots and lots of– animal associated, …

… that do unusual or unprecedented chemistry. So it’s super fun to hear about what folks are up to in a slightly … And with your background, this is pretty fun. We’ve been talking with a lot of people who actually have been classically trained in synthetic chemistry as were you …

MARCY: That is a great question because my path has been what I would call circuitous. I didn’t follow the … bacteria so what’s – I guess that maybe you could say the gut is, kind of. But not the same way this is designed … We work on a fungus garden ant as well as the American honeybee. And so I have multiple opinions which I’m never …