Natural Prodcast

About 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.

Publisher

JGI

Category

science · science · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Feb 2020

Latest episode

15 Nov 2023

Latest episodes

25 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Nov 2023

   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 Great Salt Lake. Then, Dan talks (maybe way too much) about the Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory, or SMC, JGI's new data portal for natural product biosynthetic gene clusters.Episode transcript at jgi.doe.gov/natural-prodcast-episode-24-jackie-winter-and-...

2. 

   2 Nov 2023

   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-prodcast-episode-23-aaron-puri.

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   4 Oct 2023

   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 about the field of "biocatalysis", about her DNA synthesis project with the JGI to explore flavin monooxygenases, and what we all need to do in the future to figure out how to make predictions about the functionality and chemical capabilities of enzymes. Also, the Prodcast formally declares its position on candy corn.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

15 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

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