Futures in Biotech (Audio)
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
FiB 95: So Long and Thanks for All the FiBs
07 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
We bring back all the co-hosts, panelists, and subject matter experts for a touchy feeling - warm and fuzzy feel good farewell. FiB is moving to: Mic...
FiB 94: Getting DNA Right-s
08 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
We navigate the waters of Biotechnology. Gene patents, how do you get them and why are they there? And once you have them, how are you going to finan...
FiB 93: Snyder's Omics
06 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The technologies that our guest has developed are playing an important role in changing the world, not like the car, the microwave and the cell phone...
FiB 92: Foldit - Crowd Sourcing God's Work
09 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. David Baker explains how the game Foldit uses crowdsourcing to intelligently design artificial proteins never seen before in nature. Host: Marc ...
FiB 91: 6 PhDs Piled High and Deep
16 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Futures in Biotech, we talk about the Frontiers of Biotechnology - where the line between science and sci-fi are beginning to blur...
FiB 90: In-Silico Models of Organ Morphogenesis
02 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Futures in Biotech, Dr. Celeste Nelson, from Princeton University, explores the fundamental mechanisms of organ morphogenesis. Ho...
FiB 89: Towards Curing Malaria With Dr. Elizabeth Winzeler
19 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Elizabeth Winzeler describes her approaches to drug discovery in an effort to tackle Malaria. Host: Marc Pelletier Guest: Dr. Elizabeth Winzele...
FiB 88: Cogito, Ergo Sum... Multitasking?
04 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
How understanding our mind will shape our futures with Dr. Adam Gazzaley. Host: Marc Pelletier Co-Host: Dave Brodbeck, Ph.D Guest: Adam Gazzaley ...
FiB 87: Anti-Matter Message in a Magnetic Bottle
30 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
We talk with Jeffrey Hangst about the successful trapping of anti-hydrogen to hopefully answer some of our most important questions about the univers...
FiB 86: Biomasses for the Masses
09 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Changing an Amish farm in Ohio into an energy source solution for modern times. Host: Marc Pelletier Guests: Jon Griswold, Matthew J. Griswold, CFA...
FiB 85: Modeling Life With the World's Most Powerful Computer System
19 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Vijay Pande, Stanford's Director of Folding@Home, details how the world's most powerful system models Alzheimer's and other human diseases. Host...
FiB 84: Biotech - Hot in Cleveland
15 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Baiju Shah, President & CEO of BioEnterprise, explains how to transform a regional economy into a thriving biotechnological innovation center. H...
FiB 83: Bioinformatics: Essential Gene Names Skewed in a Network of Blame
08 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Mark Gerstein from Yale University explains the essence of life through network theory. Here you can find an important podcast: Biological Netwo...
FiB 82: Bionic Brain Symbionts: The Next Phage of Human Slurry
24 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss everything from symbiotic devices to human proteome phage to the race between transcription and translation, genetics gone wild. Host: Ma...
FiB 81: Worm Research: The Buck Starts Here
17 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Gordon Lithgow bridges the science of protein folding and life extension. Host: Marc Pelletier Co-Host: Simon Melov, PhD Guest: Gordon Lithgow...
FiB 80: Light Up the Brain
20 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Using optogenetics to study learning and cognition. Host: Marc Pelletier Co-Host: Dave Brodbeck, Ph.D Guest: Dr. Ann M. Graybiel Thanks to Phil P...
FiB 79: Oceans 20
13 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
The Test Run, the technology that will transition us into the next era of medicine. Host: Marc Pelletier Co-Host: Mark Gerstein Guest: Dr. Tommy N...
FiB 78: TWiV Infects FiB
18 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
It's a science mashup. FiB and TWiV together for one big show. Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D Guests: Dickson D. Despommier, Ph...
FiB 77: How The Environment and A Single Protein Influence Evolution
12 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
How the environment and a single protein influence evolution. Host: Marc Pelletier Guests: Dr. Susan Lindquist and Daniel Jarosz, Ph.D. Thanks to ...
FiB 76: It's Time To Proteo Me
25 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
How mass spectrometry has become one of the most important technologies in our move toward personalized medicine. Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Vincent ...
FiB 75: It's Time To Start the Human Proteome
19 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
The move to the Human Proteome is the next big transition in modern medicine. Host: Marc Pelletier Guests: Dr. John Bergeron and Dr. Tommy Nilsson ...
FiB 74: Cancer and Aging: Rival Demons with Dr. Judith Campisi
14 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Judith Campisi's scientific investigations are at the nexus between cancer and aging. She seeks to better understand how cellular senescence cont...
FiB 73: The New Science of Aging
17 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
We will discuss the biotech of life extension with the scientist that discovered the Sirtuan family of genes. Host: Marc Pelletier Guest: Simon Mel...
FiB 72: A Four Billion Year Old Social Network
10 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
How controlling bacterial behavior may lead to a new class of urgently needed antibiotics. Host: Marc Pelletier Guest: Dr. Bonnie Bassler Sponsore...
FiB 71: Genomics, Proteomics, Cellular Immunity, and Anti-Matter
19 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
The '1000 Genome Project', 'Billion Dollar Human Proteome', viral killing proteins, and capturing anti-matter. Hosts: Marc Pelletier, Vincent Racani...
FiB 70: SBIR Funding: The Business of Science
06 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
How to fund the development of your own technology through SBIR funding. Host: Marc Pelletier Guest: Lisa Kurek For a free audiobook, visit Audibl...
FiB 69: The Power of Yeast Genetics
15 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Looking at one of the most powerful genetic model systems, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with Malcolm Whiteway, Ph.D NRC-CNRC Group leader for Biotechnol...
FiB 68: Rats Will Inherit the Earth
01 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
How studying mammalian biological history can help us better understand ourselves. Host: Marc Pelletier Guest: Darin Croft, Ph.D For a free audiob...
FiB 67: Triceratopping Egg Mountain
18 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Dinosaur hunting with the man who inspired Jurassic Park, Dr. Jack Horner, curator of Paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies and Montana State Uni...
FiB 66: The Homebrew Genomics Club
11 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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 Integr...
FiB 65: Tackling Genetic Disease
28 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Progress in molecular biology and the latest strategies for tackling genetic disease. Our guest is David Thomas, professor and chair, Department of ...
FiB 64: The Future Is Viral
24 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Five scientists, George Farr, Mark Griswold, Dave Brodbeck, Vincent Racaniello and David Thomas, discuss their hopes and aspirations for biotechnolog...
FiB 63: How to Use a Mouse
03 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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....
FiB 62: X-Ray Crystallography
26 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Alexander McPherson explains X-ray crystallography, a technique that will produce a true atomic anatomy of the human body. Books referenced in t...
FiB 61: One Heart Beat Away
15 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Tackling problems of the heart with biotechnology. Our guest is Julian Stelzer, Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reser...
FiB 60: Do You Come to This Cave Often?
22 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Primate face recognition, new cure for HVC, genetic base change, neanderthals and humans, and more. Host: Marc Pelletier Guests: Dave Brodbeck, Ph....
FiB 59: No Room for Failure
11 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
A first hand account of the Apollo Missions from the floor of Mission Control from Michael Vucelic, former Apollo system manager for NASA and Rockwel...
FiB 58: Vertical Farms and Much, Much More With Dick Despommier
17 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Feeding the world with indoor vertical farming. Our guest is Dickson D. Despommier, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology, College of Physicians and Surg...
FiB 57: Mechanisms of Non-Mendelian Inheritance in Evolution
02 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
How prion proteins can act in non-mendelian inheritance, or evolution without DNA. Our guests are Susan Lindquist, Ph.D., professor of biology at MI...
FiB 56: New Antiviral Strategies with Karla Kirkegaard
19 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
A look into RNA viruses and more with Dr. Karla Kirkegaard, professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Stanford Univ...
FiB 55: Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics, Part 2
26 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Rahul Sarpeshkar, Ph.D., associate professor, of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talks ...
FiB 54: Personal Genome Project - Leo's Genome?
24 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
The Personal Genome Project: making personal genome sequencing more affordable, accessible, and useful. Our guest is Dr. George Church, Professor of...
FiB 53: Project Genome 10K - Mapping Life's Greatest Journey
26 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Project Genome 10k, and how sequencing ten thousand vertebrate genomes will tell us about our past, present, and future. Our guest is Dr. David Haus...
FiB 52: Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics, Part 1
25 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Bio-inspired and biomedical electronics, circuit modeling of biology, and more. Our guest is Rahul Sarpeshkar, Ph.D., associate professor of electri...
FiB 51: MRI Engineering Made Easy
19 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
How to build an MRI, and how it works. Host: Marc Pelletier Guest: Mark Griswold For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech. Thanks to Phil ...
FiB 50: More Biotech Stories
09 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Marc and some the FiB regulars cover important stories in the biotechnology realm. Host: Marc Pelletier Guests: George Farr, Ph.D., Dave Brodbeck, ...
FiB 49: Brain-Machine Interfaces
17 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Justin Sanchez, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Neuroscience, and Biomedical Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Flor...
FiB 48: Sequencing an Ocean's Genome
03 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Delong discusses the use of metagenomics to understand microbial life in the Pacific Ocean. Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Andre Nantel, Ph.D Guest:...
FiB 47: Genetic Engineering in the 21st Century
29 Sep 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Oliver Smithies discusses the present and future of genetic engineering Host: Marc Pelletier Guests: Andre Nantel, Ph.D and Dr. Oliver Smithies...
FiB 46: Towards Computers That Think
08 Sep 2009
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Dr. Terrence Sejnowski about theoretical and computational biology and neurobiology. Audible pick: This Is Your Brain on Music: Th...
FiB 45: How To Make A Mouse
26 Jul 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Marc talks with Dr. Oliver Smithies, Professor, Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007 Nobel Laur...
FiB 44: Cogito Ergo Sum by fMRI
29 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest is John Gabrieli; Grover Herman Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts In...
FiB 43: Temporal Alien Mammoth Overlords
31 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
From wooly mammoths, to cybernetics, and controlling your computer with your brain, a panel discusses the recent big stories in bioscience. Host: Ma...
FiB 42: Sneezing Pandaemic
05 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest is Dr. Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D., is a professor of Microbiology at Columbia University Medical Center and the host of This Week in Virolog...
FiB 41: Modeling Life With The World's Fastest Computer
30 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
A follow-up look at Folding@Home, the world's most powerful distributed computing cluster, designed to perform computationally intensive protein fold...
FiB 40: Virus Reborn
31 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Leading virologist Peter Palese explains why he revived a virus that killed 50 million people. Our guest is Peter Palese, professor and chair of mic...
FiB 39: Food, Genetically Modified
24 Feb 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Lisa Weasel discusses the controversies surrounding genetically-modified foods. Our guest is Dr. Lisa Weasel, associate professor of biology at ...
FiB 38: It Is Easy Being Green
01 Feb 2009
Contributed by Lukas
How Dr. Martin Chalfie transformed a green fluorescent jellyfish protein into the most important biological marker used today. Our guest is Dr. Mart...
FiB 37: Just A Touch Of Green
30 Dec 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest is Marty Chalfie, 2008 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry This episode covers how Marty Chalfie discovered the molecular machinery that senses to...
FiB 36: Avoiding Death, Not Taxes with Dr. Cynthia Kenyon
25 Nov 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest is Dr. Cynthia Kenyon; Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, Director of the Larry ...
FiB 35: The Brain Machine Interface
28 Oct 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Justin Sanchez discusses technologies that enable direct brain to computer interfacing, just think... Dr. Justin C. Sanchez is Director of the N...
FiB 34: A Great Historical Document - The Human Genome
12 Sep 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Gerstein endeavors to make sense our genome on its past and present course. Our guest is Mark Gerstein, the Albert L. Williams Professor of Bio...
FiB 33: Dr. Milner's Explorations Into The Human Mind
23 Jul 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Brenda Milner describes the experiments that led to a revolution in modern neuroscience. Our guest is Dr. Brenda Milner; Dorothy J. Killam Profe...
FiB 32: Controlling HIV Evolution
04 Jun 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Ronald Collman, professor of medicine in microbiology, virus/cell/molecular core director, Penn Center for AIDS Research, University of Pennsylva...
FiB 31: The Eensy-Weensy Teenie Weenie Big Bang
23 Apr 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Michio Kaku, Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and co-founder of String Fiel...
FiB 30: Aubrey de Grey on the Thousand Year Lifespan
26 Mar 2008
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion with Aubrey de Grey; Chairman and Chief Science Officer, the Methuselah Foundation. Host: Marc Pelletier Guest: Aubrey de Grey Thanks...
FiB 29: From Human Genome Project to Your Genome Project (Part II)
06 Feb 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. George Church is the Professor of Genetics and Director of the Center for Computational Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Founder & Prin...
FiB 28: One of the Greatest Quests in the World of Genetics
27 Jan 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Richard Lifton describes his scientific journey, which has changed how doctors treat hypertension: a condition that affects approximately one bil...
FiB 27: Folding@Home at 1.3 Petaflops
28 Dec 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Gibson joins me in interviewing a true visionary of biotechnology: Dr. Vijay Pande. Dr. Pande is the creator and Director of Folding@Home, the ...
FiB 26: The Last Man to Walk on the Moon
21 Nov 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Former Senator from New Mexico, Dr. Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, shares his experience of living and working on the moon, the future of space settlements...
FiB 25: From the Human Genome Project to Space Exploration with Dr. George Church (Part I)
04 Oct 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest is Dr. George Church, Professor of Genetics and Director of the Center for Computational Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA. ...
FiB 24: The Phoenix Mars Mission with Dr. Deborah Bass
20 Sep 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest is Dr. Deborah Bass, Deputy Project Scientist, Phoenix Mars Mission Dr. Bass and her colleagues at NASA explore the Martian arctic for sig...
FiB 23: From Gemini to Mars with Dr. Buzz Aldrin
11 Sep 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Buzz Aldrin talks about Gemini 12, Apollo 11, and the future of space exploration. Host: Marc Pelletier Guest: Dr. Buzz Aldrin This episode of...
FiB 22: The Marathon Mouse
01 Sep 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest is Dr. Ron Evans, Professor and the March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology, Salk Institute. Dr. Ron Evans discusses t...
FiB 21: Science Versus Cancer with Dr. Evangelos Michelakis
22 Aug 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Evangelos Michelakis, MD, FACC, FAHA explains how to target the metabolism of cancer cells... Our book of the week, reviewed by Dr. Ginger Campb...
FiB 20: Dr. Eric Kandel's Insights into the Science of Mind
03 Aug 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Kandel is a Professor of Physiology and Psychiatry and the founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior of the Columbia Universi...
FiB 19: The Supra Human Organism
19 Jul 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Jeffrey Gordon is a Professor of Gastroenterology, the Director of the Center for Genome Sciences, and the Head of the Department of Molecular Bi...
FiB 18: NanoBiotech
04 Jul 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Searson, Director of the Institute for NanoBiotechnology and Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins ...
FiB 17: Biotech Singularity
23 Jun 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Our panelists for this episode are Dr. John Bergeron, Professor and Chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at McGill University, Dr. Dre...
FiB 16: 21st Century Biotech - Systems Biology
27 May 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Lee Hood, President of the Institute for Systems Biology, inventor of the DNA sequencer. Host: Marc Pelletier Guest: Dr. Lee Hood Thanks to Ca...
FiB 15: The SuperNet
03 May 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Larry Smarr, the Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIT2), discusses the future of computi...
FiB 14: Working Towards a Cure for Multiple Sclerosis
24 Mar 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Johnson is the President and Founder of the Myelin Repair Foundation, and Dr. Robert Miller is a principal investigator with the MRF, and Profe...
FiB 12: The Era of Shock and Awe Proteomics
21 Feb 2007
Contributed by Lukas
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 Pr...
FiB 11: Ancient DNA - The Neanderthal Genome
20 Dec 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Our guests are Dr. Svante Pääbo, Director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Dr. Thomas Ja...
FiB 10: Carla Shatz on the Human Brain
08 Dec 2006
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
FiB 9: Ed Delong on Metagenomics
23 Nov 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Delong uses advanced genomic techniques to explore marine microbial communities in search of new genes... Host: Marc Pelletier Guest: Edward De...
FiB 8: Drew Endy on Synthetic Biology
09 Nov 2006
Contributed by Lukas
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 natur...
FiB 7: Dr. Ronald Desrosiers
19 Oct 2006
Contributed by Lukas
We talk with Dr. Ronald Desrosiers of the New England Primate Research Center Host: Marc Pelletier Guest: Ronald Desrosiers, Ph.D. For more detail...
FiB 6: Dr. Linda Griffith on Tissue Engineering
11 Oct 2006
Contributed by Lukas
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 unlimi...
FiB 5: Andre Nantel on DNA Microarrays
20 Sep 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk about how microarrays are revolutionizing biomedical sciences. Just ten years ago, all genetic and biochemical experiments w...
FiB 4: Dr. Marc Vidal, Part 2
17 Aug 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Vidal is working on the next stage in big biotech. Now that we've mapped the human genome it's time to map the interactome, the human protein-pro...
FiB 3: Dr. Marc Vidal, Part 1
11 Aug 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Vidal is working on the next stage in big biotech. Now that we've mapped the human genome it's time to map the interactome, the human protein-pro...
FiB 2: Dr. Leonard P. Guarente on Aging
21 Jul 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Why do living things age? What genes influence longevity? Is it possible to extend youthfulness by means of genetic manipulation? What does the aging...
FiB 1: Dr. Susan Lindquist
14 Jun 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Susan Lindquist is a member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Sciences at MIT. Her discoveries in protein folding have lead to paradigm s...