BioPOD

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Episodes: 52

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Explore the edges of known biology and meet the people - a podcast direct from the PhD students at the heart of university research. BioPOD is the official podcast from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Edinburgh.

Episode Date
Primate Evolution with Dr Katerina Guschanski
May 08, 2024
The world of editing
Mar 14, 2024
Entrepreneurship series: NucBarcoder- Barcoding DNA to identify various species ft. Dr. Wu Huang
Feb 14, 2024
Science communication and Education
Jan 19, 2024
The ins and outs of scientific publishing
Dec 11, 2023
Let’s chat, meet Prof. Thorunn Helgason, new head of Biology School at the University of Edinburgh
Nov 06, 2023
Plant fossils and the story they tell
Oct 04, 2023
Introduction to RNA Therapies with Prof Amy Buck
Sep 05, 2023
Plastic: From Bin to Bake
Jul 28, 2023
OGI Bio: An Automated Bioreactor Start-Up
Jun 27, 2023
Circadian Rhythms with Dr Gerben van Ooijen
May 30, 2023
Green Bioactives: A biomanufacturing spin-out company
May 06, 2023
Campus Conservation with Dr Sophie Haupt
Mar 28, 2023
PhD Advice from the New Director of Grad School
Feb 28, 2023
PhD Advice from postgraduate administrators Karen and Mairead
Jan 31, 2023
Trash to Treasure with Dr Stephen Wallace
Dec 27, 2022
The Origins of Antimicrobial Resistance
Nov 29, 2022
iGEM2022 Petalution - How to clean our water using synthetic biology
Oct 11, 2022
Beetlejuices – How beetles take care of their offspring
Sep 27, 2022
Academia Through Time
Aug 30, 2022
Spore Wars - Microbial Biotechnology in Space with Dr Rosa Santomartino
Jul 27, 2022
Biology Without the Cells with Dr Nadanai Laohakunakorn
Jun 28, 2022
Psychoacoustic explorers: turning proteins into sounds with Edward Martin
May 31, 2022
PhD Advice from recent PhD grad Dr Lizzie Wadsworth
Apr 26, 2022
COP26 Debrief: Food Security with Dr Annis Richardson
Mar 29, 2022
Looking Back on COP26: Sustainable Biotechnology with Professor Louise Horsfall
Mar 15, 2022
PhD Advice from Dr Harriet Harris, the University Chaplain
Feb 25, 2022
Living the PhD Life
Feb 02, 2022
Crop improvement: getting inspiration from algae
Dec 31, 2021
Cell differentiation: When DNA met Sall4
Nov 01, 2021
Scotland's BioTech Stories: Engineered proteins in action
Sep 17, 2021
Scotland's BioTech Stories: CryoEM - the cutting edge of structural biology with Dr. Marcus Wilson
Aug 13, 2021
Water 'bout cyanobacteria?: Producing high value products using sunlight ft. Anton Puzorjov
Jul 20, 2021
Evergreen: How to block viral transmission ft. Prof. Neil Mabbott
Jun 15, 2021
COVID19: How to mass produce a vaccine ft. Dr Prerna Vohra
Jun 08, 2021
Viral Variants: How to track and tackle COVID variants ft. Dr Thomas Williams
Jun 01, 2021
Eureka! How To Design A Vaccine ft. Dr Christine Tait-Burkard
May 25, 2021
Darwin Tree of Life: Sequencing the Biome of the Great Britain Ft. Prof. Mark Blaxter & Dr. Alex Twyford
May 19, 2021
How Synthetic Microorganisms can Biofacture High Value Products ft. Dr. Tessa Moses
Apr 23, 2021
Detecting Parasitic Infections in Cows by Small RNA (Trypanosomiasis) with Dr Maria Contreras-Garcia
Mar 25, 2021
How Bacteria Produce Eco Nylon (BIOFACTURING). Ft. PhD Student Jack Suitor
Feb 26, 2021
Carbon Dynamics and Climate Change in the Dry Tropics with Associate Professor Kyle Dexter
Jan 21, 2021
All Hands on Deck: Three Epidemiology PhD Students Who Contributed to COVID-19 Research in Edinburgh
Dec 18, 2020
Women in Science: Featuring Edinburgh academics Prof. Lynne Regan and Prof. Meriem El Karoui
Nov 13, 2020
Black in Botany: A Discussion with Botany PhD Student Jade Bleau
Oct 16, 2020
Crops, Robots and Rolling Pins: Building Crop Resistance with PhD Student and Activist Tara Wight
Aug 07, 2020
Novel Gene Expression in Yeast, and a Successful Lifelong Research Career with Retiring Professor Jean Beggs
Apr 03, 2020
How to Characterize the Structure of Lamin-A Proteins in Cells with Dr Alex Makarov
Feb 18, 2020
Begonia Biodiversity and Field Trips in South-East Asia with Dr Mark Hughes
Dec 19, 2019
The 500 Year Astrobiology Experiment with Dr Toby Samuels from the UK Centre for Astrobiology
Aug 23, 2019
Smartphone Biosensors and SynBio with Dr Baojun Wang and Dr Xinyi Wan
Jul 05, 2019
Chicken Bioreactor: Engineered Chickens Which Produce Human Proteins with Dr Lissa Herron
Apr 25, 2019