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
