René de Vaumas, owner of Extrasynthese and Davide de Lucrezia, owner of Explora Biotech talk about the importance to develop platforms, standards and tools for emerging life sciences such as synthetic biology.

A conversation between Ana Merino, Francesco Visioli, Maya Bendifallah, moderated by Michele Catanzaro, on their visions and engagement for a next generation of food driven by biotechnological innovations.

Ricard Solé, Rachel Armstrong, Víctor de Lorenzo and Michele Catanzaro discuss the potential of synthetic biology to provide solutions to major environmental challenges.

Iryna Biliaeva, responsible for Open Innovation Management at ADM Biopolis, Spain and Felipe Lombó, coordinating the BIONUC group at the University of Oviedo, Spain, talk about research cooperation between academia and industry with a focus on health.

Juan Nogales, head of the Systems Biotechnology Group at CSIC in Spain and Waltraut Hoheneder, design researcher from Liquifer in Austria engage in a discussion on the breathtaking advances in microbial research.

Tobias Goris, a microbiologist from the German Institute of Human Nutrition, and the biochemist Jarosław Popłoński from the Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences in Poland, discuss their research on food and nutrition.

PhD Students Yannik Brack from Greifswald University in Germany, and Cheewin Kittikunapong from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden talk about the role of robots and computer modeling in their everyday work.

In our podcast miniseries “Made by Microbes” we explore new ways of microbial production.