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… least, talk to us, first about my definitions of things and why I am wrong, and also talk about some of the great … think the terms we should be using for what we do are, and why there and why it’s important to make those distinctions. FRANCISCO …

… that describe the work. In general. Scientific merit and why it’s important. The DOE mission is one of these … section. We want to be sure that the PIs can articulate why their work falls within one of these DOE mission areas. … PI to articulate that as well. We want them to write out why they think the data that we would generate for them is …

… stories about natural products, so you can get a feel for why I think they’re so important, and we’ll start to explain … more about some of the background and sort of the reasons why we want to do this. And also to provide a little more … of the fun things that I hope that I can express today is why secondary metabolism is interesting and why it is that …

… you maybe explain what’s going on with their biology and why they’re so important to natural products? ERIC:  Sure. … I’ve seen you give a few talks on that. Can you tell us why cone snails are so cool? ERIC:  So cone snails are … found in the venoms. And so we’ve been working on that. But why small molecules matter is because this pain drug, this …

… the paradigm of how to discover natural products. So, why I’m very excited to be working with Dan, you, with the … or you know, you’ve run into challenges that demonstrate why this is so important. BEN:  Yeah. So I wouldn’t call it … the answer, but I want to still give you – just regurgitate why I’m very excited. I think, among many, many major …

… is like, what’s your origin story in natural products? Why are you doing this? JACLYN WINTER: I’ll kind of go back … that I never anticipated starting– that’s not why I came to the University of Utah– is looking at the … angle, is to look in industry. But you’re a professor. Why’d you do that? JACLYN WINTER: So I actually– well, I …

DAN: Alright, so I think we’ve covered a little bit about why they’re important. But one of the things I did want to … – how bacteria or other organisms communicate and how and why secondary metabolites are being produced in the … generate, the more knowledge you can generate. So that’s why we are still sequencing lots of stuff, and why the JGI …

… there are any kind of dated references to the news, that’s why. But it was a really fun conversation. And I think … metabolites evolve– who makes them, how do they spread, why do they spread in a certain way from one bacteria to another, how do they change then, and why are they really made. I think that’s a question that a …

… working with you, Dan, on this one, and we said, “Well, why don’t we have you know, the bioinformaticians go against … get made fun of by my now-wife, because she was wondering why it is that we needed to produce more toxins in the lab … well. Alison: Can you say more about that, like an example? Why are halogenated compounds so interesting? And why might …