Molecular Microbreweries

Newly-minted PhD Thom Booth took time from his busy schedule (moving to Australia!) to tell me all about his PhD research. Thom studies natural products discovery, which honestly I didn't know what that was either. But don't worry, he does a great job breaking down his research in this episode! Suggested Reading: Molecular explanation of Geosmin (the smell of soil): https://www.jic.ac.uk/blog/meet-the-molecules-geosmin/ Synthetic evolution of natural products: https://www.jic.ac.uk/news/landmark-discovery-turns-marathon-of-evolution-into-a-sprint/ Scientific paper published by Thom: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27091090 Find Thom Booth: @BoothThom, https://www.jic.ac.uk/people/professor-barrie-wilkinson/ Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing