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… for another episode of Natural Prodcast. Right now I’m working on this the afternoon of the day I’m due to release it, … the answer would be that there’s actually a great deal of diversity within these methanotrophs for example, that are … for every single one of those and put them in individual plasmids and put those plasmids in E. coli . We were then …
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… then, chemistry-wise, they’re the stars, right? Chemical diversity, the sheer number of chemicals they produce, their … is a whole bunch of information that maybe never makes its publication. And these are little tips, you know, how to … nutrients, and media, that there’s a good tip, or certain plasmids that are– so it was a bit of capturing all this …
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… DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … and how we do it here and maybe give an example of a recent publication. ALISON TAKEMURA: Awesome. Yeah, let’s dive in, … Yeah, bacteria sound like a good place, to me, to look for diversity because there are so many bacteria, because it is …
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… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … secondary metabolite peptides. And there are two ways that nature does this. The more well-known secondary metabolism … with animal metabolism itself, and it’s really amazing what diversity there is in animals. I think, even despite the …
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… DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … technologies or uses or applications– are the evolutionary nature of these compounds. At the end of the day, all the … is that you could, therefore, expect a lot of chemical diversity. So many compounds will fulfill the same function. …
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… Hey Marcy! ALISON: Hey Marcy? MARCY: Hello. How’s it going? DAN: Good. How are you? MARCY: Am fine. I live in a … postdoc Panama as part of the international cooperative biodiversity group (ICBG) based in Panama and was dual there … And we’ve done some work with those and have a couple of publications out there on the chemistry. There’s so much …
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… right. Welcome back to Natural Prodcast. I did it. I’m keeping to my schedule. This should be coming out on the first … And once we figure that out, we have designed GFP based plasmids where we can actually then put these in E. coli and … DAN: Oh, I did not know that. That's cool. JACKIE: But nature can do this. BETSY PARKINSON: But nature can do it …
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… back to a new session of Natural Prodcast. I’ve got two things I wanted to tell you about in this introduction. First … was less nutrients but enough that you had a lot of biodiversity. So we choose environments that are close enough … to this? Or you’re just really like– molecular biology on plasmids and stuff to express things, or? What’s the– BRIAN …
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… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … fundamentals. What is beautiful for natural products is nature! Nature does this sort of – if you think of nature as … you to, say, go to your grandma’s backyard. To collect the diversity that exists in the 1940s? The answer is no! If …
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… of Natural Prodcast. A little bit of a bonus episode, since I’m off schedule, but this is an important one that … we sequenced the genome. And it has 17 resistant genes on a plasmid that’s actually– it’s pretty scary what this thing … And I think a lot of times, too, when we even look at publications, it’s always positive data, right? No one ever …
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… of Natural Prodcast. This week, Alison and I talk to Roger Linington, from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, … program, which stands for International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups, and it’s this great program funded by the … understand the chemical diversity and chemical utility that nature has to offer us. I found this conversation really …
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