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. Join hosts Dan Udwary and Alison Takemura as they introduce concepts in this exciting field, and talk to the fascinating and entertaining scientists who work in it. This series brought to you by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute.