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Biofounders Podcast: Fun conversations with the founders, investors, researchers and artists you haven’t heard of | Follow along on LinkedIn , Twitter , YouTube , and Instagram | Support the podcast with a 5-star rating on Spotify ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ In this Biofounders episode, I interview Inja Radman , a scientist who went from studying optogenetics in worms to cofounding and leading R&D at New Culture ,...

Biofounders : Fun conversations with unconventional founders, biohackers, CEOs, and investors you haven’t met yet | Follow along on LinkedIn , Twitter , YouTube , and Instagram | Support the podcast with a 5-star rating on Spotify ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ In this Biofounders episode: * [0:00 - 1:53] Introduction by Sofia * [2:29] Grace introduces herself * [8:14] Turning a design hobby into a job in biotech bra...

As part of his work in the public sector, Alexander Titus is one of the Commissioners at the United States National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology . He previously worked at the DoD as the Head of Biotechnology Strategy, and helped launch PPPs BioMADE and armi. With too many interests to count, Titus was also part of early-stage startups like Colossal Biosciences ; he worked at Googl...

In the year 2000, Michael Elowitz and Stanislas Leibler published the first paper on a genetic circuit built in E. coli . A couple of years later, the first mammalian synthetic circuits emerged with work from Fussenegger in human cell lines. Genetic engineers remained blind to plants until the late 2010s, when similar genetic engineering efforts started in the autotrophs. Long time scales, heterog...

Michael Florea is the co-founder and CEO of Olden Labs , an SF-based company developing and shipping AI smart and low cost cages for animal studies. Michael has had a long term vision to advance human longevity since he was a teenager. After his PhD in biology at Harvard Medical School, where he worked on whole body gene delivery systems, he choose to accelerate biotechnology by building Olden Lab...

Arye Lipman cofounded Biosphere , a startup building UV-sterilized bioreactors that replace the 1950’s steam reactors to reduce biomanufacturing costs. Previously, he built a network of biotech labs for startups like Minicircle and invested in some of them. Biosphere came out of stealth this year through a USD $8.8 M seed round led by Lowercarbon Capital and VXI Capital, with participation from Fo...

Onye Ahanotu —scientist, artist, scholar, home chef, material architect, and founder of Ikenga Wines , a company reimagining palm wine, a drink with thousands of years of cultural depth in the global south. He previously worked at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and remains an active board member of the Counter Culture Lab in Oakland. In today’s episode, we talk abou...

By day, Nick is a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Ueli Grossniklaus at the University of Zürich. By night, he is a flower engineer and artist on a mission to communicate the beauty of plant science to the public through educational projects… you may recognize him as the guy who genetically engineered Arabidopsis flowers and leaves to have different colors and shapes. In this episode: * Whe...

Senseory is a startup creating plants that bring natural, effervescent aromas indoors. This is an interview with Gigi Minsky , the co-founder and CEO. We talk about her previous experience at companies like Ginkgo Bioworks, her business plan for Senseory, working with a plant biohacker, and the product's most important technical specs (what they can say for now). Enjoy my intro on why I think comp...

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Episode highlights in 5-min video * MeliBio started as a precision fermentation company yet pivoted towards a plant-based product to avoid remaining as a “garage science project” for too long, without fulfilling their mission. * Darko experienced first-hand the hurdles of building not one but two manufacturing facilities in his previous jobs. He’s now outsourcing that for MeliBio and focusing on b...

It’s 5:00AM in Toluca when Sofia Sanchez wakes up to the sound of her Westclox, ready for another day as a business major. She drives to her hometown’s business school, listening to the radio, wondering what her professor’s reaction will be to the 76-page final report she wrote with the help of her beloved IBM Selectric, her worn-out Chartpak stencil, her family’s encyclopedia, and Mexico City’s I...

Majo es actual investigadora en UCSF. Es iGEMer de corazón, ayudó a empezar Compound Foods (alternativa sustentable para el café), y estudió en el TEC de Costa Rica. Me da mucho gusto que podamos compartir contigo sus fascinantes e inspiradoras experiencias! Mis links: * Twitter * LinkedIn * Substack (blog) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acces...

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Evan is a super fun and kind plant synthetic biologist from Berkeley whose work focuses on improving CO2 capture. Even beyond that, Evan is mindful and proactive about making SB safe and accessible to everyone through efforts like spreading this knowledge to people in Kenya! In this family friendly (jargon-free) conversation, we touch on relevant books, the craziest things he’s seen plants do, how...

Li Lu es la CEO de Forma Foods , la primera empresa de carne cultivada en México, que ha reunido a los mejores expertos en ingeniería de tejidos, bioreactores, y ciencia de carne para ofrecer la proteína del futuro a millones de Mexicanos. Con inversión de Saya Bio , comenzaron con un prototipo a base de plantas y están a buscan transicionar pronto a un producto híbrido con células animales, para...

In this episode: * What does it mean to be a creative director at a synthetic biology company? * Christina’s story in science * Why synbio is more mainstream than “we” think * Anecdotes of the GMO sticker * Skills and mindsets for synbio * What needs to change in order to grow an abundant future with synbio Links * Christina’s twitter * GROW magazine * Ginkgo Bioworks * Sofia’s Twitter This is a p...

Mark ( @markbelan ) holds a Bachelors in Arts & Science, a Masters in Geochemistry and Astrobiology, as well as a Masters in Biomedical communication. Before becoming a freelance scientific illustrator featured by Nature, he did research in astrobiology which could be useful to find life on other planets. In this episode, we dive into different aspects at the intersection of art and science: what...

TurtleTree es una startup de proteínas alternativas para productos lácteos en Singapore. Antes de unirse a ella en una etapa temprana, Nacho estudió y trabajó en el Tec de Monterrey y tuvo experiencia en Nestlé y Grupo Herdez en México. Espero que este episodio sea de especial ayuda para gente empezando una carrera en biotecnología, que busca alternativas de trabajo poco convencionales. * Te recom...

Omica es un biobanco nacido en México, con la misión de traer medicina de precisión a América Latina. Previo a ello, Victor empezó MariMori, una empresa dedicada al descubrimiento de nuevos biomateriales. En este episodio, hablamos de los retos y oportunidades de los emprendimientos biotecnológicos en la región, así como la trayectoria de Victor desde estudiante de ingeniería biomédica en la unive...

Worship growth in the biological sense-- Elliot Hershberg is best known for his Substack publication "The Century of Biology" where he shares insights on interesting preprints in the genomics field and recently thoughts on biotech through the VC lens too. He is currently studying a genomics PhD at Stanford university and is a research analyst at NotBoring , a media and venture capital firm that ha...

Christopher is the founder and CEO of EdenBio , a startup building a Machine Learning platform to help biotech startups have higher yields in precision fermentation. In this episode: How to face the recession as a biotech startup All about EdenBio Rock-paper-scissors in the biotech startup environment Why some biotechs scale better than others Will biology be predictable one day? Follow me on Twit...

"Keep all of your fundamentals strong and for sure you'll find a place in cell ag". Irfan is currently a Ph. D. candidate and New Harvest Fellow at the Engineered Biomaterials Research Laboratory at the University of Vermont where he is tissue engineering cultured meat on plant-based scaffolds. In this episode: from mechanical engineer to tissue engineer Irfan's research in plant-based scaffolds f...

"Talk to as many people as you can and don't be afraid to reach out. Naturally they'll become your mentors because they'll see you grow"-- Subaita Rahman , cofounder of Nucleate Dojo and the Dojo House (the global community for biotech undergrads and the first-ever co-living house for young scientists). In this episode: Reverse-engineer your path to be a biotech founder The biotech environment in...

"You can work on incredibly interesting and difficult challenges, make money, and have a fulfilling career while improving people's lives and the planet's life. So what's stopping you from joining this movement?"--Cai Linton, CEO and cofounder of Multus Media , UK-based startup accelerated by IndieBio NY in 2020. In this OBio episode: Insights from Cai's previous work experience in academia resear...