Futures in Biotech (Audio)

A first hand account on the genesis of the Human Genome Project with our guest, Dr. David Botstein, Director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University.

Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Andre Nantel, Ph.D

Guest: Dr. David Botstein

For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.

Thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.

Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.

Progress in molecular biology and the latest strategies for tackling genetic disease.

Our guest is David Thomas, professor and chair, Department of Biochemistry, McGill University; Canada Research Chair in Molecular Genetics.

Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Dave Brodbeck, Ph.D

Guest: David Thomas

For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.

Thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.

Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.

Five scientists, George Farr, Mark Griswold, Dave Brodbeck, Vincent Racaniello and David Thomas, discuss their hopes and aspirations for biotechnology in a post-genomics era.

Host: Marc Pelletier

Guests: George Farr, Ph.D., Mark Griswold, Dave Brodbeck, Ph.D, Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D, and David Thomas

For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.

Thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.

Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.

Nobel Laureate Dr. Mario Capecchi teaches us how to use a mouse to dissect the human genome and understand disease.

Our guest is Mario Capecchi, Ph.D., distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and Biology at the University of Utah and investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Host: Marc Pelletier

Guest: Mario Capecchi, Ph.D.

For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.

Thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.

Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.

Dr. Alexander McPherson explains X-ray crystallography, a technique that will produce a true atomic anatomy of the human body.

Books referenced in this episode: Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules, COLD SPRING HARBOR LABS. Introduction to Macromolecular Crystallography, WILEY BLACKWELL.

Host: Marc Pelletier

Co-Host: George Farr, Ph.D.

Guest: Dr. Alexander McPherson

Thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.

Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.

Tackling problems of the heart with biotechnology.

Our guest is Julian Stelzer, Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University

Host: Marc Pelletier

Guest: Julian E. Stelzer, PhD

For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.

Thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.

Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.

Primate face recognition, new cure for HVC, genetic base change, neanderthals and humans, and more.

Host: Marc Pelletier

Guests: Dave Brodbeck, Ph.D, Andre Nantel, Ph.D, Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D, and George Farr, Ph.D.

For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.

Thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.

Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.

A first hand account of the Apollo Missions from the floor of Mission Control from Michael Vucelic, former Apollo system manager for NASA and Rockwell.

Host: Marc Pelletier

Guest: Michael Vucelic

For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.

Thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.

Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.

Feeding the world with indoor vertical farming.

Our guest is Dickson D. Despommier, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY. Host of This Week in Virology; Host of This Week in Parasitism.

Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D

Guest: Dickson D. Despommier, Ph.D.

For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.

Thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.

Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.

How prion proteins can act in non-mendelian inheritance, or evolution without DNA.

Our guests are Susan Lindquist, Ph.D., professor of biology at MIT and investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Simon Alberti, group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, and Randal Halfmann, a grad student in Dr. Lindquist's lab at MIT

Host: Marc Pelletier

Co-Host: George Farr, Ph.D.

Guests: Dr. Susan Lindquist and Simon Alberti

For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.

Thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.

Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.