In this episode, we interview Dr. Jeffrey Barrick, an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. We talk to Dr. Barrick about the famous long-term evolution experiment in the Lenski lab, evolutionary failure in synthetic biology, tools for engineering the bee gut microbiome, and more. Along the way, we talk about cricket farming, how a bad memory can be good for open science, and some career advice for young scientists.

For more information about EBRC:

Visit our website at ebrc.org. If you are interested in getting involved with the EBRC Student and Postdoc Association, fill out a membership application for graduate students and postdocs or for undergraduates and join today!

Transcription:
Episode transcripts are the unedited output from Whisper and likely contain errors.

In this episode, we interview Dr. Sri Kosuri, an Associate Professor at UCLA and the founder and CEO of Octant Bio. We talk to Dr. Kosuri about his career trajectory, starting in the earliest days of synthetic biology up to the present, where his team is using next-generation DNA synthesis and sequencing technologies to accelerate the discovery of new drugs for the treatment of complex diseases. Along the way we talk about wikis before Wikipedia, engineering vegetables that are arbitrary shapes, and questioning our most basic scientific assumptions.

For more information about EBRC:

Visit our website at ebrc.org. If you are interested in getting involved with the EBRC Student and Postdoc Association, fill out a membership application for graduate students and postdocs or for undergraduates and join today!

Transcription:
Episode transcripts are the unedited output from Whisper and likely contain errors.