Dr. Olga Genilloud, invited lecture at “Applied Natural Products: from discoveries to innovation”, an international symposium organized jointly by GDRI i-NPChem (a European network on Integrative Natural Product chemistry), ICSN (CNRS Institute of Natural Product Chemistry), Ecole Polytechnique and the University Paris Saclay. Dr Genilloud presented current research activities developed at MEDINA in the exploration of microbial collections as a source of novel natural products. The symposium integrated themes of biosynthesis, total synthesis, metabolomics, isolation and analysis, medicinal chemistry and chemical biology of Natural Products, and has been a new opportunity for MEDINA to identify new research projects and discuss new collaborations.