36 | Laurence Hurst and the slime mold model of discovery
Laurence Hurst is a professor of Evolutionary Genetics and the founding Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution at The University of Bath. Martin actually learned biology from Laurence as a postdo...
5 Jun 202341min
35 | Edith Heard and the feeling for the system
Edith Heard is a Professor at the Collège de France and the Director General of Europe’s “CERN for biologists”, the European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL). In this episode, Edith explains how she gets ...
22 Mai 202337min
34 | Ewan Birney and the battle scars of discovery
Ewan Birney is the deputy director general of the European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL) and co-director of the European Bioinformatics Institute. In his research, Ewan combines his training in bioche...
8 Mai 202340min
33 | Paola Arlotta and science as a walk in the dark woods
Paola Arlotta is a developmental neurobiologist and a professor at Harvard. She studies how the most complex organ in the human body (in the world? in the universe maybe?) comes to be: the brain (!). ...
24 Apr 202351min
32 | Marty Martin and Art Woods on science podcasting
In this special, we talk about podcasting with the two hosts of the Big Biology Podcast (https://www.bigbiology.org), Marty Martin – professor of disease ecology at the University of South Florida – a...
10 Apr 20231h 1min
31 | Alfred Russel Wallace and night science by candlelight
What was the creative process of Alfred Russel Wallace? In this séance, we channel the legendary self-taught evolutionary biologist, founder of the field of biogeography, and co-discoverer of natural ...
1 Apr 202353min
30 | Zak Kohane and the abstraction of data
Isaac (Zak) Kohane is the Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. In this episode, Zak talks with us about how medicine, at its core, is information processing. Bu...
20 Mar 202328min
29 | Jim Collins and the technology-free Friday
Jim Collins is Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT. In this episode, he talks with us about his radical switch of fields in the early 2000’s, when he essentially founded the field of synthetic ...
6 Mar 202341min
