The Living Revolution

The Living Revolution episodes:

• 05.10.2024

  IndiaBioscience with Dr. Karishma Kaushik | The Living Revolution

  IndiaBioscience is an organisation serving as the bridge between the ivory towers of academic research, clinicians, and the wider public, It serves to take the science funded by public money and give it back to the community, whether it is...

  
• 04.19.2024

  The Wastewater Treatment Nexus: Energy, Nutrients and Water with CEO of ThinkTIM Marc Wehmeijer | The Living Revolution

  Wastewater is a gold mine for energy, nutrients and water. Marc Wehmeijer dispels myths about breaking in to the wastewater industry, and takes us on a tour of the global wastewater treatment landscape from the deserts of Durango, Mexico to...

  
• 04.06.2024

  Cultivating algae | Peter Mponzi with The Living Revolution

  Algae is a high potential and high protein food. Learn how engineers and entrepreneurs like Peter Mponzi are using algae to cultivate the future of nutrition. Peter Mponzi is a chemical process engineer by training and current entrepreneur in algal...

  
• 09.20.2023

  Modern agriculture and Synthetic biology | The Living Revolution with Wageningen iGEM 2023

  Join us for a whirlwind tour of the key problems with modern agriculture and the alternative emerging technologies. In this final episode with Agata the biocontainment researcher and Simon, Head of Human Practices, from the Wageningen iGEM team, we discuss...

  
• 08.05.2023

  Biobricks, GMOs, IP and the art of DNA detection | The Living Revolution with iGEM Wageningen 2023

  In an iGEM competition, open source interchangeable parts of genetic material (BioBricks) allow hundreds of teams of students to create synbio solutions to real world problems. Joined by captain Johannes and treasurer Niko from the 2023 Wageningen iGEM team, we...

  
• 07.17.2023

  Preventing frost damage, joining iGEM and what it takes to make a team | Wageningen 2023

  The Wageningen iGEM Team is developing a solution to prevent frost damage using synthetic biology. Listen to find out more about how frost damage affects farmers, markets and us as consumers, and how Wageningen plan the scientific aspects of their...

  
• 06.16.2023

  Protecting Biotechnological Breakthroughs: A Discussion with IP Specialists | Sara Holland and David Holt

  Can you patent a newly discovered protein? Does getting a patent depend on the application? What does intellectual property encompass? Our guests, IP specialists Sara Holland and David Holt from Potter Clarkson, join us to shed light on these topics...

  
• 03.09.2023

  Sampling from the ocean, Mischief and Misery, curiousity-driven research | Sebastian Cocioba

  Sebastian Cocioba is an amateur scientist  pursuing his scientific curiousities from his home lab and mentoring young scientists via Binomica Labs. His mission is to enable agency through building open source tools and allow anyone to explore the world around...

  
• 03.07.2023

  An Ecosystem of Open Source Directed Evolution Robots | Sebastian Cocioba

  Sebastian Cocioba is an amateur scientist conducting research from his home lab. In our previous episode, we discussed how he's building tools for the future molecular florists. Here and now, we take this topic further, starting with the example of a...

  
• 03.04.2023

  Molecular Florists, Binomica Labs, the M9 Media, Photobiology | Sebastian Cocioba

  Sebastian Cocioba is a scientist and researcher building open source tools to make research easier and cheaper. Do you, by any chance, know where the M9 media comes from and what it was originally used? Sebastian takes us on a...

  
• 02.04.2023

  DIY Biology | Sebastian Cocioba

  Sebasian Cocioba is an independent researcher, conducting the discovery, research and more from his own home lab. This is part one of our conversation with Sebastian. He details his first experiences in science from seeing a maple leaf and thinking...

  
• 12.23.2022

  Tae Seok Moon | SynBYSS| EBRC bioengineering into sustainability | Probiotics | Scientific collaborations

  Doing science is not a lonely endeavour. It involves collaborating with others, using your shared knowledge to find solutions to pressing problems, and pushing past the boundaries of what is known. As an EBRC council member, professor and founder of...

  
• 12.04.2022

  Quantum Biology | Dr. Clarice D. Aiello

  Dr. Clarice D. Aiello is a quantum engineer interested in how quantum mechanics informs biology. She fearlessly leads the Quantum Biology Tech (QuBiT) Lab in UCLA where she explores if spin physics can account for relevant biosensing and be used...

  
• 10.18.2022

  Bioluminescence for a cleaner chemical industry | Paige Whitehead, CEO of Nyoka

  Paige Whitehead is CEO and cofounder of Nyoka, a company on a mission to lighten up the world with proteins. But how? In this episode, we explore bioluminescence, its vital uses, and how it could be used to clean up...

  
• 08.05.2022

  Open Science Platform | Prachee Avasthi from Arcadia Science

  Research is behind bars: paywalls and a closed peer-review process. You pay both to publish and to read published works. A small fraction of scientists are involved in peer review, creating a bottleneck and limiting the range of expertise that...

  
• 07.26.2022

  Microbial Spores to Track, Trace and Authenticate | Aanika Biosciences

  Supply chains are large complex systems with vast amounts of data, plagued with problems. Products are contaminated, go missing, are resold without permission, are sold as something else. Within the food supply chain, it can take up to eight weeks...

  
• 07.19.2022

  Automating and Democratising Science with Trilobio

  Current automation is expensive and difficult to use. Scientists have to learn complex programming languages, becoming more programmers than experimenters. Machines they use understand basic commands such as ‘draw one ml of liquid from this tube to the next’, yet...

  
• 07.12.2022

  Environmental Medicine with Prof Victor de Lorenzo

   The environmental microbiome is facing a series of stresses that have passed the tipping point with pertinent examples including microplastic infestation and desertification. What if we could use microbes on an environmental scale to improve the fabric of this microbiome?...

  
• 07.07.2022

  Predicting protein-ligand interactions with machine learning | The Living Revolution with Dr. Tomas Rube

  Proteins are the functional unit of all life processes and as such it is important that we maximise our understanding of their interactions with other molecules in order to study their effects. Dr. Tomas Rube talked with us about his...

  
• 06.28.2022

  Controlling Organisms with Light | The Living Revolution with Armin Baumschlager

  Optogenetics is the study of light-controlled biological systems, this may sound futuristic, however, many organisms already change in response to light. In this episode, we talked with Dr. Armin Baumschlager about his work and understanding of how we can engineer...

  
• 06.21.2022

  Space Concrete | The Living Revolution with Dr. Aled Deakin Roberts

  Biocomposite materials can utilise potentially waste carbon sources and capture them for a useful purpose. For example, Dr. Aled Deakin Roberts talked with us about how he can create a biocomposite material from ashes using a bio-inspired adhesive. Further to...

  
• 06.14.2022

  Standardization in Biology | The Living Revolution with Dr. Brecht De Paepe

  Standardization  of biological parts to make them more independent, scalable and tunable is a hope for the future of synthetic biology. Dr. Brecht de Paepe talked with us about how achieving this standardization would have a tremendous effect on efficiency...

  
• 05.31.2022

  Control Theory, Co-culture, Machine Learning & Biosecurity | The Living Revolution with Miroslav Gasparek

  Controlling the behaviour and output of microorganisms is one of the most important pieces in the biotechnology puzzle. Without an improved level of control in biology, it is difficult to create consistent results from engineered organisms. Future prospects hope to...

  
• 05.24.2022

  Testing Water Contamination with Synthetic Biology | The Living Revolution with Robert Mayall

   Water contamination is an issue we face from past and current industrial activities that affects our health. Of course the ideal scenario would be not to let the contamination escape in the first place, however, this is sometimes unavoidable. FREDsense...

  
• 05.17.2022

  A Complete Human Genome | The Living Revolution with Dr. Adam Phillippy & Dr. Surgey Nurk

   Discovering the remaining part of a human genome. The first draft of the human genome was published in 2001, now, over 20 years later, we have a complete sequence of the human genome. The newly complete genome contains sequences that...

  
• 05.10.2022

  Maximising Cell Growth | The Living Revolution with Dr. Rebecca Vaught

   Most of life science is reliant on the ability to grow the thing you want to study, this requires media. Media is the 'food' which cells use to grow and as such it is important that cells get the right...

  
• 05.05.2022

  The Future of Materials | The Living Revolution with Prof. Allen Liu

  Programmable materials, living materials, cell-derived materials, these are all things we talk about in today's episode with Prof. Allen Liu. We discuss how the separate fields of Biomaterials and Synthetic Biology can come together to produce enhanced Biomaterials that can...

  
• 04.26.2022

  Digital-to-Biological Converter | The Living Revolution with Dr. John Gill

  Without the ability to synthesise DNA, biotechnology would not be a shred of what it is today. In this episode, Dr. John Gill talks to us about the future of DNA synthesis technology and how he and those working at...

  
• 04.21.2022

  Taking Synthetic Biology To The Next Level | The Living Revolution with Dr. Jake Beal

  Today we spoke with Dr. Jake Beal who is a scientist at BBN and a former researcher at MIT. He shared with us his incredible grasp on why it is important to improve measurements in synthetic biology research if we...

  
• 04.05.2022

  Animal-Free Meat | The Living Revolution with Dr. George Taylor

  Dr. George Taylor talks with us about the cultivated meat industry and how synthetic biology can be used to accerlerate the adoption of this new form of food. Cultivated meat has the potential to be much more efficient than animal...

  
• 03.23.2022

  Cell-free Systems for Low & Middle Income Countries | The Living Revolution with Dr. Fernando Guzman

  Dr. Fernando Guzman talks with us about Cell-free systems, a method for producing proteins without the laborious process of growing and harvesting cells. One of the main drawbacks of these cell-free systems is the cost, Dr. Guzman shared with us...

  
• 03.16.2022

  3D Bioelectronics | The Living Revolution with Prof. Roisin Owens

   Prof. Roisin Owens tells us about her research into creating 3D biomimetic materials which can be used to model human systems such as the intestinal tract and the lungs. With these model systems we can learn many things about disease...

  
• 03.09.2022

  Carbon-Negative Chemical Production | The Living Revolution with Dr. Michael Köpke & Prof. Michael Jewitt

  Dr. Michael Köpke & Prof. Michael Jewitt talk with us about their work on the carbon-negative production of acetone and isopropanol. These chemicals are currently produced from fossil derived carbon. In this new research waste gases from the chemical industry...

  
• 03.02.2022

  Artificial Life | The Living Revolution with Dr. Kerstin Göpfrich

  Dr. Kerstin Göpfrich talks with us about her research into creating synthetic cells. We discuss DNA origami, where the line is drawn between synthetic and engineered cells, the ethics of producing synthetic cells and challenges faced by the field. 

  
• 02.23.2022

  Bio-Electronics | The Living Revolution with Prof. Ardemis Boghossian

   Prof. Ardemis Boghossian shares with us her research and knowledge into bioelectronics and related fields. This feels like science fiction, but it is research that is happening in laboratories right now. Some bacteria have been found to produce electons naturally,...

  
• 02.16.2022

  Microbial Machines | The Living Revolution Ep. 8 with Dr. Rodrigo Ledesma Amaro

  Dr. Rodrigo Ledesma Amaro from Imperial College London shares insight into metabolic engineering, a field of study that allows us to control and manipulate the behavours of living organisms. With metabolic engineering tools we can harness organisms to cure diseases,...

  
• 09.30.2021

  Biomanufacturing | The Living Revolution with Dr. Neil Dixon

  Biomanufacturing uses biology to produce valuable chemicals such as fragrances, food additives, platform chemicals and fuels. This means of manufacturing can use waste streams contributing to circular economy, reduce necessity for harsh chemicals and create milder reaction conditions. Sythetic Biology...

  
• 09.23.2021

  Genetically Engineering Plants For a Better Future | The Living Revolution Episode 6 With Prof. Simon Turner

  Today we discussed genetically engineering plants to improve foor security, nutrition and biofuel production with Proffesor Simon Turner from the Univeristy of Manchester. This podcast is brought to you by the Mancehster iGEM 2021 team with support from the Mancehster...

  
• 09.16.2021

  Recycling Rare Earth Metals with Biology | The Living Revolution Episode 5 with Prof. Loiuse Horsfall

  Today we talked with Prof. Loiuse Horsfall, the programme director for the master's in synthteic biology at the University of Edinburgh. She shared with us her knowledge of the field and we covered subjects such as what is synthetic biology...

  
• 08.27.2021

  Treating Spinal Cord Injuries with Synthetic Biology | The Living Revolution Episode 4 with King's College London iGEM Team

  Today we talk to students from King's College London about their project for the international synthetic biology competition known as iGEM. They are using synthetic biology to create a bioadhesive which will hold in place scaffolds that can be used...

  
• 08.17.2021

  Helping Our Oceans With Synthetic Biology | The Living Revolution Episode 3 with University of St Andrews iGEM Team

  Today we talked with the University of St. Andrews iGEM team about their project which aims to use synthetic biology to replace harmful products that are currently found in sun creams. This area of synthetic biology can also be applied...

  
• 08.06.2021

  Applications of Synthetic Biology | The Living Revolution with Prof. John Ward

  In today's episode, Prof. John Ward runs us through some exciting applications of synthetic biology and where the field might progress in the near future.   Professor John Ward is the programme director for MRes Synthetic Biology at University College London....

  
• 07.27.2021

  What is Synthetic Biology? with Professor John Ward | The Living Revolution

  In today's episode we talk to Prof. John Ward, the programme director for MRes Synthetic Biology at University College London. He shared some incredible insights into what synthetic biology is and the technologies that are allowing the field to advance.   Follow...