In December of 2015 DLZ had the privilege of giving a seminar on nucleocidin biosynthesis in the Natural Product Biosynthesis symposium of Pacifichem (Waikiki, Hawaii). This was a very well attended symposium featuring many of the top international researchers in natural products research. Many thanks to the organizers Bradley Moore (Scripps, UCSD), Ikuro Abe (U. Tokyo), and Dye-Kyun Ro (U. Calgary) for putting together such an excellent meeting!