May 11, 2026 · 39 min · 19 segments
Antibiotic resistance is one of the most pressing challenges in modern medicine, raising the risk of a return to a pre-antibiotic era where common infections become life-threatening. This week on…
Cassandra QuaveHost
This is Dr. Cassandra Quave, and you're listening to Foodie Pharmacology: The Science Podcast for the Food Curious.
Today on the show, I invited one of my colleagues in the space of natural products discovery to come on the show and tell us about her groundbreaking work in the search for new antibiotics from nature.
She's a professor of translational genome mining at the University of Tubingen in Germany, where she works at the interface of microbiology, bioinformatics, and natural product research.
She studied biology in Berlin, and has built a career around understanding the diversity, distribution, and function of microbial secondary metabolites.
Her research focuses on developing computational methods and large-scale data resources to explore the microbial genomes and their biosynthetic gene clusters, and to better understand microbial chemical diversity and its relevance to antibiotic research.
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This is Dr. Cassandra Quave, and you're listening to Foodie Pharmacology: The Science Podcast for the Food Curious.
Today on the show, I invited one of my colleagues in the space of natural products discovery to come on the show and tell us about her groundbreaking work in the search for new antibiotics from nature.
She's a professor of translational genome mining at the University of Tubingen in Germany, where she works at the interface of microbiology, bioinformatics, and natural product research.
She studied biology in Berlin, and has built a career around understanding the diversity, distribution, and function of microbial secondary metabolites.
Her research focuses on developing computational methods and large-scale data resources to explore the microbial genomes and their biosynthetic gene clusters, and to better understand microbial chemical diversity and its relevance to antibiotic research.
