Natural Prodcast

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 seco

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 st

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 Department of Chemistry. We talked broadly abou

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, semisyntheti

Natural Prodcast Ep 20 - Brian Bachmann

Natural Prodcast's interview with Vanderbilt Professor of Chemistry, Brian O Bachmann. 

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 dru

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 Scienc

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-

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 mov

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 mar

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 Secondary Metabolites Science Program. Since his arrival in 2017, Nige

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" versu

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 tr

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 fo

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!

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 research group works in metabolomi

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 chemistr

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 B

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

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 “ho