ACS Synthetic Biology Podcast

By ACS Synthetic Biology Team

Science & Medicine

What's ACS Synthetic Biology Podcast about?

ACS Synthetic Biology introduces a series of podcasts highlighting articles published in the journal.

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ACS Synthetic Biology Podcast episodes:

09.16.2016
September 2016
ACS Synthetic Biology September 2016 podcast interview with Spencer R. Scott, PhD student in the lab of Dr. Jeff Hasty at UC San Diego.
08.19.2016
August 2016
ACS Synthetic Biology August 2016 podcast interview with Harold Fellermann, Guest Editor, Special Issue on Programmable Biology.
08.01.2016
July 2016
ACS Synthetic Biology July 2016 podcast interview with Zhe Lyu on engineering an autotroph for geraniol production.
06.17.2016
June 2016
ACS Synthetic Biology June 2016 podcast interview with Jake Beal and Nathan Hillson.
05.20.2016
May 2016
ACS Synthetic Biology May 2016 podcast interview with Yvonne Chen, Assistant Professor at the University of California in Los Angeles.
04.15.2016
April 2016
ACS Synthetic Biology April 2016 podcast interviews with Jessica Polka, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Pamela Silver Lab at the Harvard Medical School, and Saji Wickramasekara, CEO and founder of Benchling based in San Francisco, California.
03.18.2016
March 2016
ACS Synthetic Biology March 2016 podcast interview with Robert Smith, Assistant Professor at the Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
03.01.2016
February 2016
ACS Synthetic Biology February 2016 podcast interview with Dieter Soll on expansion of the genetic code.
01.26.2016
January 2016
ACS Synthetic Biology January 2016 podcast interview with William Bentley.
12.22.2015
December 2015
ACS Synthetic Biology December 2015 podcast interview with Pia Lindberg, senior author on a paper in our December issue.
11.20.2015
November 2015
ACS Synthetic Biology November 2015 podcast interview with Nanette Boyle on the Genome Engineering special issue.
10.16.2015
October 2015
ACS Synthetic Biology October 2015 podcast interview with Helen Toogood, first author on a paper in this month's issue - Enzymatic Menthol Production: One-Pot Approach Using Engineered Escherichia coli.
09.18.2015
September 2015
ACS Synthetic Biology September 2015 podcast interview with John Dueber on A Highly Characterized Yeast Toolkit for Modular, Multipart Assembly.
08.21.2015
August 2015
ACS Synthetic Biology August 2015 podcast interview with Ernst Oberortner on the IWBDA 2014 special issue.
07.17.2015
July 2015
ACS Synthetic Biology July 2015 podcast interview with Josh Cuperus, first author on a manuscript in this month's issue.
06.22.2015
June 2015
ACS Synthetic Biology June 2015 podcast interview with Katherine Ryan.
05.15.2015
May 2015
ACS Synthetic Biology May 2015 podcast interview with Julius Lucks, discussing a paper in the RNA Synthetic Biology special issue.
04.17.2015
April 2015
ACS Synthetic Biology April 2015 podcast interview with Steven Benner of the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution.
03.20.2015
March 2015
ACS Synthetic Biology March 2015 podcast interview with Claes Gustafsson on the mapping of amino acid substitutions to confer herbicide resistance in wheat.
02.20.2015
February 2015
ACS Synthetic Biology February 2015 podcast interview with Fuzhong Zhang on the Circuits in Metabolic Engineering Special Issue.
01.16.2015
January 2015
ACS Synthetic Biology January 2015 podcast interview with Richard Murray on the Synthetic Biology: Engineering, Evolution and Design Conference (SEED) 2014 Special Issue.
12.19.2014
December 2014
ACS Synthetic Biology December 2014 podcast interview with Joshua Leonard on the Design and Operation of Mammalian Cells Special Issue.
11.21.2014
November 2014
ACS Synthetic Biology November 2014 podcast interview with Mark Gomelsky on the Synthetic Photobiology special issue.
10.17.2014
October 2014
ACS Synthetic Biology October 2014 podcast interview with Charles Gersbach on the Engineered DNA-Binding Proteins/Transcription Factors Special Issue.
09.19.2014
September 2014
ACS Synthetic Biology September 2014 podcast interview with Michael Savageau.
08.18.2014
August 2014
ACS Synthetic Biology August 2014 podcast interview with Douglas Densmore on the International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA 2013) Special Issue.
07.17.2014
July 2014
The July 2014 Podcast features an Interview with Ting Lu, author of the Letter: Cloning and Optimization of a Nisin Biosynthesis Pathway for Bacteriocin Harvest.
06.20.2014
June 2014
Listen to highlights from ACS Synthetic Biology's June 2014 Special issue on Cell-Free Synthetic Biology. Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, speaks with Guest Editor, Dr. Michael Jewett, and with Sukanya Iyer, a first author on one of the papers featured in...
05.16.2014
May 2014
In ACS Synthetic Biology's May 2014 podcast, Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, speaks with Dr. Hal Alper of the University of Texas in Austin about the enabling of rapid metabolic engineering.
04.18.2014
April 2014
Listen to highlights from the April 2014 issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, speaks with Cynthia Collins, Guest Editor of this month's special issue on Cell-Cell Communication.
03.21.2014
March 2014
Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, speaks with Dr. Tom Ellis - a Guest Editor of this month's Special Issue based on research presented at SB6.0: The Sixth International Meeting on Synthetic Biology.
02.21.2014
February 2014
In ACS Synthetic Biology's February podcast, Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj speaks with Nicholas Roehner about the need for engineering standards that combine descriptions of the structure and function of DNA.
01.17.2014
January 2014
In ACS Synthetic Biology's first podcast of 2014, Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, speaks with Danielle Tullman-Ercek about a directed evolution strategy to generate variants of an E. coli efflux pump.
12.19.2013
December 2013
Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, highlights content from the December 2013 issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. Federico Katzen from Life Technologies discusses the splitting of the E. coli chromosome into two linear chromosomes.
11.14.2013
November 2013
Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, discusses the discovery and engineering of natural products with Yiannis Kaznessis from the University of Minnesota and Huimin Zhao from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
10.17.2013
October 2013
Qing Nie discusses noise attenuation in the ON and OFF states of biological switches while Felix Moser describes a genetic sensor for strong methylating compounds.
09.19.2013
September 2013
Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj discusses cell-free gene expression noise in femtoliter volumes with Michael Simpson and fluorescent proteins for cell-free synthetic biology with Sheref Mansy.
08.15.2013
August 2013
Hear from Robert Batey, at the University of Colorado in Boulder, on facile engineering of novel genetic regulatory devices and from Radhakrishnan Mahadevan, at the University of Toronto, on the analysis and design of genetics circuits for dynamic metabolic engineering.
07.18.2013
July 2013
Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, speaks with authors of two papers featured in this special issue. Hear from MIT's Dr. Timothy Lu and from Dr. Bradley Moore of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC- San Diego.
06.19.2013
June 2013
Listen to highlights from the June 2013 issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, speaks with Agnieszka Janina Zygadlo Nielsen, first author on a paper that describes re-directing photosynthesis towards natural product synthesis and with Jeffrey Barrick, senior...
05.16.2013
May 2013
This issue is based on work presented at the 2012 International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA). Hear from our guest editors Leonidas Bleris, Natasa Miskov-Zivanov and Chris Myers about the manuscripts featured in this issue and the work of the...
04.18.2013
April 2013
This month, Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, talks to Eric Henderson from Iowa State University about a new way of creating DNA nanostructures and to Kevin Truong from the University of Toronto about a set of proteins that can target and...
03.13.2013
March 2013
This month, we hear from Luke Alphey at the University of Oxford on engineering female-specific lethality for pest control and from Caroline Ajo-Franklin at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on electron conduits in E. coli.
02.13.2013
February 2013
This month, hear from Jeffrey Gralnick at the University of Minnesota about engineering bacteria to bind gold electrodes and from Takanari Inoue at Johns Hopkins on synthesizing biomolecule-based boolean logic gates.
01.16.2013
January 2013
This month, Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, speaks with Stephen Mayfield from the University of California in San Diego about the use of microalgae in the production of industrial molecules and with Justin Siegel from the University of California in Davis...
12.19.2012
December 2012
This month J. Christopher Anderson from the University of California at Berkeley talks to us about plasmid transfer using engineered phagemids while Robert Campbell from the University of Alberta in Edmonton discusses dimerization-dependent fluorescent proteins.
11.14.2012
Special Issue Podcast – Synthetic Biology for Strain Development
This month, Guest Editor Sang Yup Lee from KAIST gives us an overview of the field of synthetic biology for strain development while James Clomburg from Rice University talks to us about his paper describing the reversal of the β-oxidation...
10.17.2012
Special Issue Podcast - Engineered Microbes for Therapeutics Applications
Listen to interviews with authors Matthew Bennett from Rice University and Gürol Süel at the University of California in San Diego.
09.17.2012
September 2012
This month we learn about the assembly of the bacteriophage T7 in a cell-free transcription-translation system and the development of efficient in vitro gene delivery vehicles. Listen to interviews with authors Vincent Noireaux from the University of Minnesota and Qiaobing...
08.24.2012
Special Issue Podcast - Bio-Design Automation
ACS Synthetic Biology Managing Editor Ranjini Prithviraj speaks with Guest Editor, Douglas Densmore of Boston University along with Erik Winfree, Pakpoom Subsoontorn and Jongmin Kim of Caltech, all authors of manuscripts featured in this issue.

What's ACS Synthetic Biology Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

ACS Synthetic Biology Podcast episodes:

September 2016

August 2016

July 2016

June 2016

May 2016

April 2016

March 2016

February 2016

January 2016

December 2015

November 2015

October 2015

September 2015

August 2015

July 2015

June 2015

May 2015

April 2015

March 2015

February 2015

January 2015

December 2014

November 2014

October 2014

September 2014

August 2014

July 2014

June 2014

May 2014

April 2014

March 2014

February 2014

January 2014

December 2013

November 2013

October 2013

September 2013

August 2013

July 2013

June 2013

May 2013

April 2013

March 2013

February 2013

January 2013

December 2012

Special Issue Podcast – Synthetic Biology for Strain Development

Special Issue Podcast - Engineered Microbes for Therapeutics Applications

September 2012

Special Issue Podcast - Bio-Design Automation