Futures in Biotech (Audio)

By TWiTScience Life Sciences

Futures in Biotech (Audio) episodes

May 26, 2007 FiB 16: 21st Century Biotech - Systems Biology
Dr. Lee Hood, President of the Institute for Systems Biology, inventor of the DNA sequencer.

Host: Marc Pelletier

Guest: Dr. Lee Hood

Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
40 min
May 02, 2007 FiB 15: The SuperNet
Dr. Larry Smarr, the Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIT2), discusses the future of computing and the internet...

Host: Marc Pelletier

Guest: Larry Smarr

Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
55 min
March 24, 2007 FiB 14: Working Towards a Cure for Multiple Sclerosis
Scott Johnson is the President and Founder of the Myelin Repair Foundation, and Dr. Robert Miller is a principal investigator with the MRF, and Professor of Neurosciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland OH.

Scott, Robert, and four more great neuroscientists with the MRF have taken on one the great medical challenges our time -Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

Host: Marc Pelletier

Guests: Scott Johnson (Myelin Repair Foundation) and Robert Miller, PhD

If you would like to make a donation toward curing MS please visit The Myelin Repair Foundation.

Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
1 hr 13 min
February 21, 2007 FiB 12: The Era of Shock and Awe Proteomics
Dr. John J. Bergeron, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at McGill University, and former President of the Human Proteome Organization (HUPO), and founder of Caprion Proteomics. In this episode, he describes how proteomics could revolutionize modern medicine...

Host: Marc Pelletier

Guest: Dr. John Bergeron

Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this podcast.

And also thanks to Philippe Pelletier for the great new opening theme and to Will Hall for the closing theme!!!
1 hr 5 min
December 20, 2006FiB 11: Ancient DNA - The Neanderthal Genome
Our guests are Dr. Svante Pääbo, Director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Dr. Thomas Jarvie, Technical Application Manager at 454 Life Sciences

Dr. Svante Pääbo explains how he isolates the ancient DNA of Neanderthals from museum specimens.
Links:
About the project

The sequencing technology used

Host: Marc Pelletier

Guests: Dr. Svante Pääbo and Dr. Thomas Jarvie

Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this podcast.

And also thanks to the band Gunther from Cyclone Records for the permission to use their song Wrecking Ball as a theme for this episode of FiB!
47 min
December 08, 2006 FiB 10: Carla Shatz on the Human Brain
Imagine if there was a computer with a multi-core CPU that could self-assemble? And rather than a 64 bit bandwidth, it was 10,000 bit and had access to several terabytes of ram? And more incredibly, all of this could fit into a TWiT beanie?

Host: Marc Pelletier

Guest: Dr. Carla Shatz

For more details, visit Marc Pelletier's blog at http://futuresinbiotech.blogspot.com/.

Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this podcast.

And also thanks to the band Gunther from Cyclone Records for the permission to use their song Wrecking Ball as a theme for this episode of FiB!
55 min
November 22, 2006 FiB 9: Ed Delong on Metagenomics
Dr. Delong uses advanced genomic techniques to explore marine microbial communities in search of new genes...

Host: Marc Pelletier

Guest: Edward Delong, Ph.D.

Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this podcast.

And also thanks to the band Gunther from Cyclone Records for the permission to use their song Wrecking Ball as a theme for this episode of FiB!
1 hr 10 min
November 09, 2006 FiB 8: Drew Endy on Synthetic Biology
A look at the the emerging field of Synthetic Biology. According to Dr. Endy, "We're going from looking at the living world as only coming from nature, to a subset of the living world being produced by engineers, who design and build hopefully useful living artifacts according to our specifications" (MITWorld).

Host: Marc Pelletier

Guest: Dr. Drew Endy

For more details, visit Marc Pelletier's blog at http://futuresinbiotech.blogspot.com/.

Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this podcast.

And also thanks to the band Gunther from Cyclone Records for the permission to use their song Wrecking Ball as a theme for this episode of FiB!
1 hr 3 min
October 18, 2006 FiB 7: Dr. Ronald Desrosiers
We talk with Dr. Ronald Desrosiers of the New England Primate Research Center

Host: Marc Pelletier

Guest: Ronald Desrosiers, Ph.D.

For more details, visit Marc Pelletier's blog at http://futuresinbiotech.blogspot.com/.

Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this podcast, and to Will Hall for our theme.
40 min
October 11, 2006 FiB 6: Dr. Linda Griffith on Tissue Engineering
Dr. Griffith is a leader in the field of tissue engineering: a field that seeks to develop replacement organs and tissues, and also provide an unlimited supply of living human organs for scientists to use to better understand disease and develop new therapies.

For more on Dr. Griffith's work: the The Griffith Lab and Dr. Griffith on Scientific American .

Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Leo Laporte

Guest: Linda G. Griffith, PhD

For more details, visit Marc Pelletier's blog at http://futuresinbiotech.blogspot.com/.

Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this podcast, and to Will Hall for our theme.
58 min