Episodes
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In this episode we interview Wei Leong Chew, a fellow at the Genome Institute of Singapore who recently started his own lab. As a graduate student, Wei Leong was one of the early CRISPR researchers in George Church's lab. He now hopes to develop applied biotechnologies that will make genome engineering and gene therapy easier.
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In the fourth episode of our Hot Plasmids podcast series, you'll learn about new libraries for studying B. subtilis biology, plasmids for enhancing iPSC production, regulating telomere length with TZAP, and CRISPR tools for plants. You can find additional hot plasmids in our quarterly newsletter or on our hot plasmids webpage.
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Addgene Outreach Scientist Benoit Giquel interviews Addgene Advisory Board Member and professor at Imperial College London, Dr. Tom Ellis. Dr. Ellis does research in synthetic biology and bioengineering including a recent effort to construct a synthetic yeast chromosome. Listen to learn more about Dr. Ellis, synthetic biology, synthetic chromosomes, and obstacles to becoming an academic researcher.
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In the third episode of our Hot Plasmids podcast series, you'll learn about optogenetics tools for controlling protein activity, methods for increasing CRISPR editing efficiency, new CRISPR base editors, DIY DNA ladders. You can find additional hot plasmids in our quarterly newsletter or on our hot plasmids webpage.
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Crystal Shih is an Investigator III at Novartis, a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Switzerland. After completing her PhD in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering with Harry Gray at Caltech, Crystal moved on to a Postdoc in the chemistry department at MIT. Crystal now works on protein therapeutics at Novartis - listen to learn more about Crystal’s exciting career path, to gain insight into industry research, and to get advice on how to succeed in your own career. One pro tip from Crystal - be agile and willing to move on to new projects when old ones prove unsuccessful.
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In the second installment of our hot plasmids series we discuss the Tol2 Gateway Compatible Tool Box, AAVs for infecting GABAergic interneurons, mCyRFP1, and mScarlet.
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We interview Darrell Kotton, a researcher at the Boston University Center for Regenerative Medicine. Learn how Darrell uses stem cells to study disease and promote open science.
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In this new segement of the Addgene Podcast we present some of the latest plasmid technologies from out Hot Plasmids articles at Addgene.org.
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In the second part of our two-part interview on science communication with Science in the News organizers, Vini Mani and Amy Gilson, we discuss some of the many events organized by Science in the News as well as how you can easily get your own science communication student group started.
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The graduate students running Science in the News at Harvard University are pros at communicating complicated scientific ideas to non-scientists. Learn how directors Vini Mani and Amy Gilson think about science communication and get tips for your own scientific outreach efforts.
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Tom has made many science rap videos to teach students around the globe and is pushing SciComm further with his new company, Science with Tom. In this podcast, we learn more about Tom and pick his brain for advice on how to dive into new forms of science communication.
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We sit down with Kwabena Duedu, a researcher at the University of Health and Allied Sciences in Ghana. We discuss topics ranging from public health to biofuels and the need to develop the biological research infrastructure in Ghana.
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We sit down with Alex Chavez, a researcher in the Church and Collins labs at the Wyss institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Alex is the first MD PhD on the podcast, works extensively with CRISPR, and is a member of the Addgene advisory board.
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Second episode of our two-part interview with senior graduate students Ben Vincent and Niroshi Senaratne, we explore how to develop a supportive graduate student community and keep yourself happy when things get tough in lab. The basics - be proactive, choose a good mentor, and start thinking about your career early.
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Senior graduate student researchers Niroshi Senaratne and Ben Vincent provide concrete advice on how to pick a lab, a mentor, and a project.
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Learn about biotech in Malawi and researcher Kingdom Kwapata’s path to a professorship at Lilongwe University of Agriculture & Natural Resources.
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Learn about Sample 6 founder Michael Koeris' journey from graduate student to entrepreneur.
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In this session, we sit down with Connie Cepko and discuss her work in retinal gene therapy, gene delivery, and plasmid-based tool development. Connie also gives some insight into how she's achieved her success and how she manages her lab.
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We sit down with Dr. John G. Doench, Addgene Advisory Board member, to discuss his career, CRISPR, and Addgene's role in the scientific community.
