Futures In Biotech
TechnologyExplore the world of cloning, protein folding, genome mapping, and more with the most important researchers in the field. Hosted by Marc Pelletier and Leo Laporte. Part of the TWiT.tv podcast network. Released every Wednesday. (Author: Marc Pelletier and Leo Laporte)
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Recent episodes from Futures In Biotech
- Published: Nov 3, 09Hosts: Dr. Marc Pelletier and Dr. Andre NantelGuests: Edward Delong, Ph.D.Dr. Delong discusses the use of metagenomics to understand microbial life in the Pacific Ocean. Show notesComments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.Transcripts to the shows are available on the FiB Extras blog thanks tom.price@podsinprint.com, PodsinPrintAlso thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for
- Published: Sep 29, 09Host: Dr. Marc PelletierGuests: Dr. Andre Nantel, Ph.D. and Dr. Oliver SmithiesDr. Oliver Smithies discusses the present and future of genetic engineering Show notesComments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.Transcripts to the shows are available on the FiB Extras blog thanks tom.price@podsinprint.com, PodsinPrintAlso thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.Run
- Published: Sep 8, 09Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Dave BrodbeckAn interview with Dr. Terrence Sejnowski about theoretical and computational biology and neurobiology.Guest: Terrence Sejnowski of the Salk Institute Show notesAudible pick: This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, Abridged, By Daniel J. Levitin, Narrated by Edward Herrman. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.Transcripts to the shows are available on the FiB Extras blog thanks
- Published: Jul 26, 09Hosts: Marc PelletierGuest: Dr. Oliver Smithies; Professor, Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine University of North Carolina at Chapel HillMarc talks with Dr. Oliver Smithies, 2007 Nobel Laureate, and father of mammalian genetic engineering. Show notes wikiComments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.Transcripts to the shows are now available on the FiB Extras blog thanks tom.price@podsinprint.com, PodsinPrintAlso thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.Thanks to Cach
- Published: Jun 29, 09Hosts: Marc Pelletier, Dave BrodbeckGuest: John Gabrieli; Grover Herman Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Looking directly into the human mind with fMRI technology. Show notes wikiComments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.Audible pick: Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Repiles, Unabridged, By Rene Descartes, Narrated by Paul Hecht. For a free audiobook,
- Published: May 31, 09Host: Marc Pelletier, Ph.D.Panelists: Drs. Vincent Racaniello, Andre Nantel, Justin Sanchez, and Dave Brodbeck.From wooly mammoths, to cybernetics, and controlling your computer with your brain, a panel discusses the recent big stories in bioscience. Show notes wikiComments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.Transcripts to the shows are now available on the FiB Extras blog thanks tom.price@podsinprint.com, PodsinPrintAlso thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.Thanks to
- Published: May 5, 09Hosts: Dr. Marc Pelletier and Randal SchwartzAn interview with the host of This Week in Virology, Vincent Racaniello, on the topic of Swine Flu.Guest: Dr. Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D., is a professor of Microbiology at the Columbia University Medical Center and the host of This Week in Virology. Show notes wikiComments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.Transcripts to the shows are now available on the FiB Extras blog thanks tom.price@podsinprint.com, PodsinPrintAlso thanks to Phil Pelletier an
- Published: Apr 28, 09Hosts: Dr. Marc Pelletier and Randal SchwartzA follow-up look at Folding@Home, the world's most powerful distributed computing cluster, designed to perform computationally intensive protein folding simulations.Guest: Dr. Vijay S. Pande, Director of Folding@Home and Associate Professor of Chemistry and of Structural Biology, Stanford UniversityAudible pick: Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist, Abridged, By Michael J. Fox, Narrated by Michael J. Fox. For a free audiobook, vi
- Published: Mar 31, 09Hosts: Dr. Marc Pelletier and Vincent RacanielloLeading virologist Peter Palese explains why he revived a virus that killed 50 million people.Guest: Peter Palese, professor and chair of microbiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.In the winter of 1918-19, fifty million people died horrible deaths from the Spanish flu. The threat of this happening again today is ever so present. And while we have drugs that are fairly effective against influenza, they are not foolproof. The pos
- Published: Feb 24, 09Host: Dr. Marc PelletierDr. Lisa Weasel discusses the controversies surrounding genetically-modified foods.Guest: Dr. Lisa Weasel, associate professor of biology at Portland State University in Oregon, a member of Governor Ted Kulongoski's task force on developing public policy for bio-pharmaceutical crops in Oregon, and author of Food Fray: Inside the Controversy over Genetically Modified Foods. Why isn't there a wide consumer acceptance of genetically modified (GM) foods? If we can design crop
- Published: Jan 31, 09Hosts: Dr. Marc Pelletier and Dr. Glen ErnstromGuest:Dr. Martin Chalfie; Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, Colombia University, New York, NY.This is Part II of our conversation with Dr. Martin Chalfie. In this episode Dr. Chalfie shares the historical account of his contribution to the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: How he transformed a green fluorescent jellyfish protein into the most important biological marker used today, one that allows us to track the life of rec
- Published: Dec 30, 08Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Dr. Glen ErnstromGuest: Marty Chalfie, 2008 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry This episode covers how Marty Chalfie discovered the molecular machinery that senses touch. In Part II, Chalfie describes how he developed one of the most important tools of modern molecular biology, one that allows us to see inside a living cells, down to the protein level. With green fluorescent protein, or GFP, we can now track the life of a protein, from when the gene that makes the protein is t
- Published: Nov 25, 08Host: Marc PelletierGuest: Dr. Cynthia Kenyon; Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, Director of the Larry L. Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging.We are back into a world leading lab to discuss the genetics of aging. Can it be controlled? You bet, and the implications are enormous. When these findings translate to the clinic, it will truly be a game changer for humanity. Some interesting links:sirtrispharmaElixirSirtrisAudible Pick: P
- Published: Nov 21, 08Host: Marc Pelletier Guest: Dr. Harrison Schmitt, Lunar Module Pilot, Apollo 17. Those great voices you will hear in our opening theme are Harrison 'Jack' Schmitt, lunar module pilot, and Gene Cernan, commander of Apollo 17. They were the two last men to walk on the moon. To be accurate, Harrison Schmitt was the last man out of the lunar module, and to set his foot down on the surface, while Gene Cernan was the last person to step back into the lunar module before take off, in December 1972. S
- Published: Oct 28, 08Host: Marc Pelletier Dr. Justin Sanchez discusses technologies that enable direct brain to computer interfacing, just think…Guest: Dr. Justin C. Sanchez, Director of the Neuroprosthetics Research Group, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neurology, Department of Neuroscience, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida.I really had no idea that the technologies that Justin has developed existed other than in science fiction. The possibilities are endless
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