Bio Catalyst

Bio Catalyst episodes:

• 11.25.2021

  Vatsan Raman on Protein Allostery and Bacteriophages

  In this episode, I speak with Vatsan Raman. Vatsan is an assistant professor in the department of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Vatsan's research spans a wide variety of areas: this ranges from fundamental questions such as deciphering the...

  
• 09.25.2021

  Prachee Avasthi on Cytoskeleton and Academic Publishing

  In this episode, I speak with Prachee Avasthi. Prachee is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at Dartmouth University, and her lab broadly studies cytoskeletal assembly. Prachee is also spearheading efforts to improve the academic publishing system in...

  
• 08.07.2021

  Nigel Goldenfeld on the Genetic Code

  In this episode, I speak with Prof. Nigel Goldenfeld. Nigel is a Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has tackled some fundamental questions in biology, and he provides some very unique thoughts on how he...

  
• 05.19.2021

  Allan Drummond on Protein Evolution (and a lot more)

  In this episode, I speak with Prof. Allan Drummond. Allan is an associate professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. We touch on quite a few topics related to evolution, and Allan shares...

  
• 04.23.2021

  Mohammed AlQuraishi on Machine Learning and Structural Biology

  In this episode, I speak with Prof. Mohammed AlQuraishi. Mohammed is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems Biology at Columbia University. Mohammed gives us his unique thoughts and perspectives on a variety of problems that lie at the...

  
• 03.28.2021

  Anders Hansen on 3D Genome Organization

  My guest today is Anders Hansen. Anders is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at MIT. His group studies the interplay between genome organization and regulation of gene expression in mammals. Anders gives us a deep dive of his research and delves...

  
• 03.14.2021

  Gautam Dey on Nuclear Remodelling

  In this episode, I speak with Prof. Gautam Dey. Gautam is a group  leader at the EMBL and his group studies the evolutionary origins of nuclear organization and architecture. Gautam dives into the details of his latest work and also...

  
• 02.28.2021

  Janet Iwasa on Molecular Animations

  In this episode, I speak with Prof. Janet Iwasa. Janet is an Assistant Professor in the Biochemistry Department at the University of Utah. She and her lab create animations of diverse molecular and cellular processes, and in this conversation, we...

  
• 02.11.2021

  Paul Robustelli on Molecular Dynamics Simulations

  In this episode, I speak with Prof. Paul Robustelli. Paul is an assistant professor in the department of chemistry at Dartmouth University. Paul has a pretty unique background, and he provides some very interesting perspectives on molecular dynamics simulations.   (00:35) --...

  
• 12.25.2020

  Liam Holt on Cellular Crowding

  In this episode, I speak with Prof. Liam Holt. Liam is an assistant professor in the department of biochemistry and molecular pharmacology at NYU. Here are a few interesting ideas we touched on: -why the inside of a cell and NYC...