Genome mining of polyketides and nonribosomal peptides in Aspergillus nidulans
Clay C. C. Wang, Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Unexpected role of a ketosynthase in antibiotic biosynthesis
Tom Bretschneider¹, Georg Zocher², Michelle Unger¹, Kirstin Scherlach¹, Thilo Stehle³ and Christian Hertweck¹, (1)Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Jena, Germany, (2)Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, (3)Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN

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Discovery of novel natural products by refactoring cryptic pathways
Huimin Zhao, Zengyi Shao and Yunzi Luo, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

Mapping unchartered territory – sesquiterpenoid discovery in mushrooms
Maureen B. Quin, Grayson T. Wawrzyn, Fernando Lopez-Gallego and Claudia Schmidt-Dannert, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

Engineering C-H oxidation chemistry in bacteria
Marjan De Mey¹, Chin Giaw Lim², Vikram G. Yadav², Ajikumar Parayil¹ and Gregory Stephanopoulos², (1)Manus Biosynthesis, Cambridge, MA, (2)Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA