Natural Prodcast
Natural Prodcast is a podcast about natural products and the science and scientists of secondary metabolism. Natural products, secondary metabolites, specialized metabolites -- whatever you want to call them, they're the chemicals that make species unique and different from one another, and are incredibly important to medicine, the environment, and human health. Hosts Dan Udwary and Jackie Winter introduce concepts in this exciting field, and talk to the fascinating scientists who work in it. This series brought to you by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute.
Natural Prodcast
Natural Prodcast Ep 4 - Nancy Keller
This episode is our conversation with Nancy Keller, a fantastic fungal natural products researcher from the University of Wisconsin. Like we discussed in the primer podcasts, which you should be able to find earlier in the feed, the secondary metabolism field has been dominated for … well, as long as I can remember, by bacterial research. So it was great to hear her passion and enthusiasm for fungi. And we talk a lot about some of the technical challenges to that, most of which seem to be history. Transcript at https://jgi.doe.gov/natural-prodcast-episode-4-nancy-keller-fungi/