STEMcast - McGill iGEM

Dr. Drew Endy is a synthetic biologist and professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University. He helped start new undergraduate majors in bioengineering at both MIT and Stanford. Twenty years ago Drew also helped launch the iGEM competition. As a group of students passionate about building with biology, it's a privilege to be able to speak with Dr. Endy.

In this mini-episode of STEMcast, we speak with Dr. Adalsteinn Brown. Dr. Brown is the Dean of Dalla Lana, the school of public health at the University of Toronto. He obtained his A.B. from Harvard and PhD at Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has been the co-chair of COVID-19 Advisory Board in Ontario and has held many senior leadership roles in health policy. His research interests inclu...

Dr. Sandra Hofmann is an Associate Professor in Bioengineering Bone at the Orthopaedic Biomechanics research group at Eindhoven University of Technology. Dr. Hoffmann obtained her masters in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Basel, Switzerland in 2002, then achieved her Ph. D. with distinctions at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 2007, studying "Silk fibroin as a biomateri...

On this episode of STEMcast, we’d like to introduce to you Dr. Michael Hendricks. Dr. Hendricks is currently a Canada Research Chair in Neurobiology and Behaviour. He did his BSc at Bowdoin, his PhD at NUS, and postdoc research at Harvard. On top of being a McGill prof, he is the Hendricks Lab at McGill, where he studies the behaviour of C. Elegans roundworms. Dr. Hendricks has published papers no...

On this episode the STEMcast special release, we explore plant biology with Dr. Jaswinder Singh. Dr. Jaswinder Singh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Plant Science at McGill, specializing in genomics, molecular breeding, and biotechnology. He earned his PhD from the University of Sydney and completed postdoctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research involve...

Dr. Schwarcz is the head of the Office of Science and Society at McGill, which debunks scientific misinformation and provides scientific education to the general public. He also teaches over 3000 students at McGill and is the host of the Dr. Joe Show-a chemistry podcast that has been running for 40+ years-which addresses all kinds of scientific myths and everyday scientific phenomena. In this epis...