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Episode Description: Welcome to another intriguing episode from our AMA series, where we're diving deep into the realms of cell biology, cognitive aging, and neurodegenerative disease, all through the lens of zebrafish! We're delighted to have Dr. Liz Haynes, a cell biologist and post-doctoral fellow, as our special guest. A proud advocate for open…
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Let's dive headfirst into a fascinating episode of our AMA series featuring a disruptor who's rewriting the playbook of cell biology and challenging the status quo in the scientific world. Meet Dr. Zara Weinberg, a cell-signaling sorceress and postdoc at UCSF. She's got a big love specifically for cyclic AMP and G protein-coupled receptors. If you'…
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Prepare for an episode of the Fancy Labcoat Guild with an AMA in our Discord where we're going to jump into the world of pancreatic cancer research with Dr. Mike Feigin, an Associate Professor and Director of Experimental Therapeutics at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. Known for his investigative pursuit of understanding the gene regulati…
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Prepare for an episode of the Fancy Labcoat Guild that's less 'blinding flash of light' 🔦 and more 'steady, comforting glow' 💡. We've got an AMA on our Discord with the humble luminary - Dr. Phillip Kyriakakis. He's the kind of guy who tinkers with molecular light switches in optogenetics, a field most of us can't even spell correctly on the first …
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Photosynthesis and Photoshoots: Dr. Min Ya's Journey into the World of Plant Science and Art
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In this captivating episode of our AMA series, we dive into the fascinating world of floral ground plants 🌺 with our special guest, Dr. Min Ya. As both a talented researcher and artist, Dr. Min Ya shares her unique insights into the molecular basis of these plants, which make up over 90% of known land plants. Her passion for her work is contagious,…
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Small, thoughtful science: A Live AMA on Amateur Biology and Independent Research with Sebastian Cocioba
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In our first special AMA hosted by Scifind on our Discord, we brought in Sebastian Cocioba–the 21st century's very own modern Mendel. 🧬 Sebastian is an amateur biologist and one of the founders of Binomica Labs, who works from the comfort of his home lab, surrounded by his beloved plants and instruments. From cultivating his passion to surviving th…
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Our guest, Erin McConahey, is a Principal in Mechanical Engineering with Arup, an employee-owned global engineering, advisory and planning consulting firm that focuses on all aspects of the built environment. Erin’s passion for finding integrated design solutions through a collaborative design process began with a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical En…
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Dr. Anthony Casarez is a California native, a sought-after and talented “Molecular Architect”. An expert in organocatalysis by research during his Ph.D. in the laboratory of David MacMillan, the 2021 Nobel prize laureate in Chemistry. He completed his undergrad at SFSU, did his Master's in Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh, and then joined …
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Dr. Victoria Piunova is a world-class polymer chemist with a boatload of accomplishments. As CTO at her current company Loliware, she’s disrupting the plastic industry with her seaweed-derived plastic analogues. Loliware has engineered a new category of high-performance products designed to disappear and be carbon negative at scale. By using seawee…
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*Update*: Due to events as indicated in the news with Serhat Gumrukcu (https://hindenburgresearch.com/enochian/ ), take what's said here with a grain of salt. The episode is being kept up as a point to corroborate any information and as a piece of evidence going forward. Episode Breakdown: 0:00-21:27min: Who is Serhat? and the influence of Art and …
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Louis Metzger believes that the precise engineering of biology will enable a coming revolution in how humans live, work, and interact with our planet. Inspired by his undergraduate research in the computational modeling of protein-small molecule interactions, Louis earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Duke University, where his work lay at the inter…
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In our first episode, The Fancy Labcoat Guild welcomes Dr. Kris Tatiossian to the fold. She’s a scientific rockstar: a molecular biologist from USC’s Keck School of Medicine. We start from humble beginnings in entomology. We follow her through her PhD into the world of research with the groundbreaking CRISPR technology to ultimately creating her ow…
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