Drop the STEM podcast

We're introducing the first thematic team episode! 🥳Last fall, on the intersectional educational platform of BuzzOnline @buzzonlineofficial , SynthEthics @synthethics_initiative launched "The Science and Ethics of Synthetic Biology" international 6-week course with 60+ participants from the US, South Africa, India, Philippines. 🌍 Young researchers from different parts of the world, joined by invited iGEM teams from Lund and Copenhagen @igem_lund @igem_copenhagen , guided the participants in the maze of new-era biotechnology. 🧬 The presenters of the best two projects won the opportunity of being on this limited-edition podcast episode 🏆: Kinjaal Nagindas @kinjaal_n , a university student in Microbiology with experience in Food Sciences and Biotechnology, and Brian Chen @brianchenmaster , a high school student from the US with an interest in Agricultural Biotechnology. DTS gang members also accompanied the winners: Alice Cai @alicecai2020 , Founder of BuzzOnline and Erik Hartman @erik.hartman , Founder of SynthEthics. Who's ready to hear tune into conversations surrounding man altering the blueprint of human life, its possible ethical implications and what we could do in our sphere of influence?

FYI: We've made the course, videos and materials 🟢 OPEN ACCESS 🟢- so if you want to dive deeper into the topic, head onto SynthEthics' website, discover more! www.synthethics-bio.com #dropthestem #dropthestemgang #synthethics #podcast #syntheticbiology

Let's welcome Aditya Sood @therealadityasood , who with his project "Reverse Testing Drug Chemotherapies on Drosophila Models to detect Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM)" received NASA's 1st Place Award at ISEF 2019! 🌟 @society4science @nasa He was also selected as one of 25 U.S. students to attend the prestigious cryptography & cybersecurity summer program at MIT Lincoln Labs, MIT LLCipher. @lincoln_laboratory 🔐 He furthermore received Grand Award Bronze Medal at North American Science Fair (IRIC) 2020 for his research. @insposcience He utilized hardware Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) to enhance privacy and revolutionize encryption of consumer electronic health records. 🗂💊During the pandemic, he's led the development of an iOS app to support local businesses impacted by COVID-19. Aditya is also an author of "Trailblazing into Cryptography", an introductory cryptography book with endorsements from crypto experts at Google and Intel! Fun fact, you wouldn't want to get in a fight with Aditya, cause he's a Taekwondo 3rd Degree Black Belt, winning 5 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze medals at U.S. World Open Championship! 🏆

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This episode officially marks the first conversation of 2021! 🌠 It's a new year, but the guests are still dropping the STEM! So did Rahil Samlal @rahilsamlal in this episode, researcher in Microbiology and an undergraduate student at the University of Pretoria studying Microbiology and Genetics. @universityofpretoria 🇿🇦 As the winner of the Eskom Expo for Young Scientist @eskom_expo , while receiving the University of Stellenbosch Bursary for top creative project and University of Pretoria Dr Derek Gray Award, he was a finalist at Intel ISEF 2018 @society4science , a participant at SIYSS (Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar @siyss_stockholm ) 2018, attending the Nobel Prize Week and Ceremony! 🌟His research focused on using biotechnology to develop cheaper and novel technologies to help fight lower quality of living in Africa and the rest of the world. He also investigated an alternative treatment protocol for commonly occurring pathogenic bacteria. Currently, Rahil is part of SynthEthics @synthethics_initiative as Ambassador of South Africa since he enjoys reviewing biotechnology's dynamic field with the rigorous input of ethical and philosophical discussions. 🧬⚖️ His passion is to bring science education to the general public, and it's not his first time grabbing the mic, since Rahil is also the co-host of the Dialogue Podcast. @dialogue_podcast

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Our next guest is Tarun Martheswaran, researcher in clinical & computational epidemiology! 🦠Tarun has a strong background in mathematics and competed at the national level growing up, being a 5x American Invitational Mathematics Examination qualifier. Upon entering high school, he got involved in research in the Computational Epidemiology field and created an Early Detection Model for Dengue Fever. 🌡His project earned him a spot at ISEF 2019 and 2020 @society4science , a National award at the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, and the opportunity to present at several International Conferences. Tarun is an IRIC InspoScience Grand Award Winner @insposcience (and invited to present at the American Association for Virology Conference), Young Scientist Journal (YSJ) International Conference in London winner and American Association of Cancer Research conference presenter. 🎤


Tarun also worked on a project titled "Body mass index and mammographic density among Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders," which deduces risk factors of women of different ethnicities and takes a specific look at the Native Hawaiian population. This summer, he was 1 of 4 ISEF 2020 finalists to be chosen for the WebValley 2020 team (application required finalist position), where he gained many more skills in Computational Biology and Data Science to create a single cell sequencing training package to be implemented into Italian universities. 🧬 Tarun loves teaching STEM more than anything in the world. As President and Founding Member of the organization Mission Math (missionmathutah.com), they create a love for math in every community across their state. 🙌 @missionmathutah

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Let’s give a round of applause to Boglárka Ecsedi, who created an algorithm that detects rip currents using deep neural networks and artificial intelligence in computer image analysis. 🌊📸 Due to the difficulty of recognizing them and the unpredictability of their development, they cause numerous deaths worldwide. Her work was incubated at UC Santa Cruz 🌴 and was awarded First Prize at the Scientific and Innovation Talent Recruitment Contest for Youth by the Hungarian Association for Innovation. During the summer of 2020 she interned at imagiLabs and in Medical Physics at the Medical University of Vienna. 🩺The medical research group focuses on image-driven radiomic analysis of tumors to optimize treatment decision-making processes. Bogi is also a Junior Templeton Fellow, their program recognises exceptional cognitive talents. ⭐️ She’s a young member of the New York Academy of Sciences, a FameLab Hungary Finalist, TEDx speaker and Ambassador at the Association for Hungarian Women in Science.

This episode is the result of a collaboration with the Hungarian Association for Innovation that focuses its ample activities on the economy stimulating the role of innovation. 🇭🇺💡They do not only award exceptionally innovative companies but organise the most prestigious national youth innovation contest in the country and send student delegates to EUCYS, ISEF, SIYSS and the Nobel week and more. 🌍

https://www.innovacio.hu/en_index.html

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Alishba Imran is a 17-year-old researcher in machine learning and blockchain development, having worked with organizations such as IBM, Hanson Robotics, TD Bank, Ethereum, to name a few. 🔥She is an activator and innovator at The Knowledge Society and co-founder of Voltx, building a machine learning software to accelerate energy storage testing for R&D and production from months to days. ⏩They are working with companies that include manufacturers in supercapacitors such as subsidiaries of Tesla & more. Alishba is using three-dimensional printers to create prosthetics she wants to sell for no more than $500 (market range is between $5,000 and $100,000). 🦾She is member of the Masason Foundation that was started by Masayoshi Son, the Founder, Chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp. She recently participated at, Neurips, one of the largest ML and computational neuroscience conferences, and TEDXUW, University of Waterloo about her work in machine intelligence. 🗣 Alishba is also a Weston Youth Innovation Award Finalist, given to 5 teens across Canada that are using technology to make a social impact. 🇨🇦

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This episode is one of a kind, the result of a fruitful partnership with INSPO Science Canada! 🇨🇦🌟 InspoScience Canada is a non-profit organization that provides avenues for aspiring young scientists in Canada to feature their research at global research and innovation fairs. 🏆 INSPO organized NORTH AMERICA'S PREMIER ONLINE SCIENCE FAIR: 30K dollars in awards, 2M+ dollars in scholarships, 15 internship and lab opportunities, and 3 fully-paid trips to compete in Korea, Spain and New York. 🌍The evaluators were from Harvard, University of Toronto, IBM, sponsored awards from NOKIA, Scotiabank, and ... the People's Choice Award from Drop the STEM! 😉

The winner is Khushi Parikh, 🙌 who also received Silver Medal, 18,000 USD entrance scholarship to the Rochester Institute of Technology and a 500 dollars bursary to the TKS 2020-21 session. This inspiring roboticist designed a deep neural network to detect antimicrobial resistance in S . p neumoniae. 🧫🔬Her study presents a proof of concept for the application of CNNs to detect AMR polymorphisms in bacterial DNA, which can be extended to other pathogen-antibiotic combinations in the future. 🧬She also designed a convolutional network to diagnose Lyme Disease previously, received Silver Prize in Genius Olympiad, the Petit Family Foundation's Women in Science Award and won Best Policy Paper, Diplomat and Delegate at ASU Model UNConference. Khushi tutors struggling students and teaches kids how to build autonomous robots. 💡

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Nikhil Suresh @nikhiil.suresh is the next guest dropping the STEM on the pod! 💧🎤He is a researcher in materials science, 4th place Grand Award winner at Intel ISEF 2019 @society4science with his project presenting HemaDrop: a novel technology for Microliter-sized Blood Droplets.🩸 Nikhil is the VP, CFO and Co-founder of MicroDrop Diagnostics, already having five products, several patents and research papers: they are commercializing solid-state analysis of microliter-volume liquid samples congealed with InnovaDrop™ and HemaDrop™ technologies. He’s also the winner of the Arizona State Stock Pitch Competition and Global Semi-finalist. 🗣

Above business, Nikhil presented his research work on a variety of platforms (American Physical Society’s, Ion Beam Analysis International Conference) and won several competitions let it be mathematics, biology or Science Bowl. Nikhil is also a 2020 Research Science Institute participant, one of 50 students selected from roughly 1600 rising seniors in STEM. 🌟His volunteering activities encapsulate helping at homeless shelters and tutoring kids develop essential mathematical skills. LINK IN BIO • Tune in to discover more. Available on ApplePodcasts🍎, iTunes🎧, Spotify✅ Google ‼️, Stitcher ▪️and SoundCloud📳. Like, subscribe and follow the pod if you wanna take a few moments of science with us! 😎 You can tune in to more episodes on www.dropthestem.com !

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Let’s welcome Faith Inello on the pod with a round of virtual applause and emojis! 👏😉 She is a researcher in nuerotechnology, an advocate for science, and an innovator at The Knowledge Society, that is an olympic level training program for teens who want to impact billions through STEM and entrepreneurship. 🧠Despite her young age of 16 years, she already communicated science at events, such as Harvard Alumnae for Education and TribalScale. Faith also interviewed Sir Richard Roberts, a Nobel-prize winning biochemist, at the 2020 Future Docs conference. 🏅She founded a company, Axonaly where they are working on multiple initiatives to create wearable technology that will provide relief for anxiety and panic attacks. Through TKS, Faith also helps lead a bossladies initiative that inspires girls across North America to pursue careers in STEM and own their worth as the next generation of strong female leaders.💪

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We’re welcoming Amogh Bhatnagar @bhatnagar.amogh on this episode, who’s an accomplished researcher, incoming freshman at MIT and a Regeneron Talent Search TOP 40 Finalist 2020, which is the most prestigious STEM competition for US students! 👏He created a data science methodology to compare two surgical procedures based on cost-effectiveness: open appendectomy and laparoscopic appendectomy. 📊 Amogh is also a double ISEF finalist @society4science and received Second Grand Award in Biochemistry in 2019. 🌟

He led student-run non-profit Conference Café and co-Founded a statewide research society in Wisconsin for younger students to help them how to do research and present their findings. 🔬He’s a numerously awarded professional piano player for 14 years, and Amogh does not only have a passion for politics but also cooking and playing tennis. We’ve covered a lot of cool topics on research and beyond the project board, too!

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