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.
Episodes
25 episodes
Natural Prodcast Ep 24 - Jackie Winter and SMC
On this bonus episode of Natural Prodcast, it's the Self Promotion Episode! Dan chats with new-ish co host Jackie Winter, from the University of Utah, about her secondary metabolism research on weird microbes and bioactive compounds in the Grea...
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Season 3
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Episode 24
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59:28
Natural Prodcast Ep 23 - Aaron Puri
Natural Prodcast talks to Aaron Puri, from the University of Utah's Chemistry Department. We talked about carbon-fixing methylotrophs, quorum sensing, and inverse stable isotopic labeling.Episode transcript at jgi.doe.gov/natural-prodca...
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Season 3
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Episode 23
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37:27
Natural Prodcast Ep 22 - Alison Narayan
In this episode, Dan and Jackie talk to Alison Narayan, from the University of Michigan's Life Sciences Institute and
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Season 3
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Episode 22
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37:08
Natural Prodcast Ep 21 - Elizabeth Parkinson
Natural Prodcast's interview with Elizabeth (Betsy) Parkinson, from Purdue, about bacterial signaling molecules and regulation of biosynthetic pathways, semisynthetic cyclic peptides, student mental health, and getting kids interested in microb...
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Season 3
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Episode 21
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36:53
Natural Prodcast Ep 20 - Brian Bachmann
Natural Prodcast's interview with Vanderbilt Professor of Chemistry, Brian O Bachmann.
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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37:49
Natural Prodcast Ep 19 - Bill Fenical
Natural Prodcast talks to Prof William Fenical of Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego about the beginnings of marine natural products, his experiences in drug discovery, and exploring marine bacteria.
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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1:03:46
Natural Prodcast Ep 18 - A CSP Primer
It's a crossover episode! Menaka Wilhelm, from JGI's Genome Insider, and I talk about how to work with the JGI, specifically in the form of the Community Science Program, or CSP. We talked to Deputy of User Programs, Tanja Woyke and Project Man...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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37:38
Natural Prodcast Ep 17 - Cassandra Quave
Natural Prodcast's Dan and Alison talk to Dr Cassandra Quave of Emory University, and author of The Plant Hunter. Transcript at https://jgi.doe.gov/natural-prodcast-episode-17-cassandra-quave/
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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54:34
Natural Prodcast Ep 16 - Marcy Balunas
Natural Prodcast presents our interview with Professor Marcy Balunas, currently at the University of Connecticut's Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences but soon moving to the University of Michigan's Department of Microbiology and Immunology. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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45:01
Natural Prodcast Ep 15 - Katherine Duncan
This is Natural Prodcast's conversation with Professor Katherine Duncan from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Dr Duncan's work focuses on marine microbial chemical ecology. We also discuss Actinobase, molecular networking, an...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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47:17
Natural Prodcast Ep 14 - Nigel Mouncey
Our guest on this episode is Dr Nigel Mouncey, JGI's Director, and also lead of the JGI's
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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41:34
Natural Prodcast Ep 13 - Francisco Barona Gomez
In this episode of the podcast, we talked a lot about terminology, especially around "secondary metabolism" versus "specialized metabolism" and "primary metabolism" versus "centralized metabolism" and why and how they're different when we take ...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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48:12
Natural Prodcast Ep 12 - Nadine Ziemert
This is our interview with Nadine Ziermert, from the University of Tubingen. This continues our short series of genome mining, the science of examining DNA sequence to try and predict the structures of secondary metabolites and to understand th...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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39:33
Natural Prodcast Ep 11 - Marnix Medema
In this episode, Alison and I talk to Marnix Medema, from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Marnix and his collaborators have a fantastic set of software tools for exploring secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs). Most p...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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53:14
Natural Prodcast Ep 10 - A Primer on Genome Mining
This is one of our "Primer" episodes, in which Alison and Dan discuss the science of genome mining. We talk about the California Gold Rush (it's relevant! I promise!), talk about how genome sequencing has changed genome mining over the years, a...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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47:59
Natural Prodcast Ep 9 - Roger Linington
This episode features our conversation with Roger Linington, from Simon Fraser University. Roger is a natural products chemist, and his re...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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41:39
Natural Prodcast Ep 8 - Eric Schmidt
This is our conversation with Eric Schmidt from the University of Utah. We talk about marine natural products from cone snails, sponges, tunicates, and about the chemistry of RiPPs. Transcript at https://jgi.doe.gov/natural-prodcast-episode-8-e...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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31:18
Natural Prodcast Ep 7 - Ben Shen
Our conversation with Ben Shen, from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in Jupiter, Florida. Ben and Alison and I talk about enediynes and their use in medicine, how Ben got fascinated with natural products working on terpene chemistry, TSRI...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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41:15
Natural Prodcast Ep 6 - Marc Chevrette
This is a conversation with Marc Chevrette. Marc is a post-doc in Jo Handelsman’s group at the University of Wisconsin, where, among lots of other things, he works on the Tiny Earth project, which you’ll hear him describe. He’s also a really go...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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44:20
Natural Prodcast Ep 5 - Brad Moore
This is the second of our conversations recorded at the SIMB Natural Products conference, which took place last January 2020 in San Diego. San Diego, of course is the “home turf” of my post-doctoral mentor, Brad Moore, who has join appointments...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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42:48
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 m...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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35:01
Natural Prodcast Ep 3 - The Primer - part 3 of 3
This is Dan again, and you’re about to listen to the 3rd and final part of Natural Prodcast’s “Primer” episodes. This IS the third part, so if this is the first episode you’re checking out, you probably want to go back and listen to the first t...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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31:34
Natural Prodcast Ep 2 - The Primer - part 2 of 3
This is part 2 of our “primer” episode, so if you ended up here somehow without having listened to the first part, you might be a little lost, and I’d suggest you go back and check the first episode out. This one continues the introductory conv...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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24:36
Natural Prodcast Ep 1 - The Primer - part 1 of 3
These first three episodes were recorded as a longer conversation, which I cut into more digestable pieces. In the first episode you’ll meet me, and my co-host, Alison. We’ll tell you some stories about natural products, so you can get a feel f...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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24:06