A bonus episode of JGI's Natural Prodcast is releasing now! It's a self-promotion episode, where I interview Jackie Winter about Great Salt Like microbes and more, and Jackie interviews me about the Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory (https://smc.jgi.doe.gov), which is now live!
https://jgi.doe.gov/natural-prodcast-episode-24-jackie-winter-and-smc/
UX Movement. OMG.
There's an article there, I won't link as I don't want to boost engagement but "Why You Should Never Use Pure Black for Text or Backgrounds" is approximately the largest rubbish pile in the history of internet dumpster fires.
Attached is my latest reply:
What do #diatom (a fascinating 700 million year old #algae) have in common with #Victorian #art?
Victorian times using a #microscope artists would arrange #diatoms into artistic patterns. Daitomist Klaus Kemp has revived a lost Victorian art. So let's admire this unusual type of art that emerged from the union of #science and art.
https://youtu.be/qxkbSk--EUY?si=yujH2lb_z9dEGjw5
First photo by Watson & Sons
Second photo by Klaus Kemp
Third photo by Harold Dalton
New Natural Prodcast episode dropping in your feeds! We talk with UU's Aaron Puri (https://bit.ly/purilab ) about methylotrophs, quorum sensing, and inverse stable isotopic labeling. Transcript and show notes at https://naturalprodcast.com
Now releasing into your podcast feeds: JGI's Natural Prodcast talks to Alison Narayan (UMich) about biocatalysis and candy corn!
Notes and transcripts (and also audio) at naturalprodcast.com
The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory has a blog now. What's SMC, you ask? Well, I wrote a blog post to explain it all to you!
(Please share far and wide!)
#NaturalProducts #Genome mining #SecondaryMetabolism #DrugDiscovery
https://smc.jgi.doe.gov/blog/index.php/2023/10/02/what-is-an-smc-the-big-picture/
I've been thinking about doing a livestream of bioinformatics analysis (i.e. twitch or similar), but I'm scared.
Is this of interest?
The series would be "FASTQ to FIGURES"
The 21st Episode of Natural Prodcast is now out, and we talk to Purdue's Dr Betsy Parkinson about "synthetic natural products", exploring quorum sensing-based regulation of BGCs, grad student mental health, and public outreach.
Find it on most podcast feeds or at https://naturalprodcast.com
#NaturalProducts #DrugDiscovery #Genome mining #SecondaryMetabolism
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