The Climate Biotech Podcast
Are you fascinated by the power and potential of biotechnology? Do you want to learn about cutting-edge innovations that can address climate change?
The Climate Biotech Podcast explores the most pressing problems at the intersection of climate and biology, and most importantly, how to solve them. Hosted by Dan Goodwin, a neuroscientist turned biotech enthusiast, the podcast features interviews with leading experts diving deep into topics like plant synthetic biology, mitochondrial engineering, gene editing, and more.
This podcast is powered by Homeworld Collective, a non-profit whose mission is to ignite the field of climate biotechnology.
Podcasting since 2024 • 22 episodes
The Climate Biotech Podcast
Latest Episodes
Redesigning Photosynthesis to Boost Agricultural Yield with Chris Eiben
What if we could reinvent photosynthesis itself? GigaCrop founder and CEO Chris Eiben has a mission to dramatically increase crop yields by redesigning one of biology's most fundamental processes.With half of Earth's habitable land alre...
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The Global Plastics Problem and Protein Engineering with Cesar Ramirez-Sarmiento
The solution to plastic waste looks different depending on where you stand in the world. While Northern Hemisphere biotech approaches to plastic recycling focus on high-temperature enzymes designed to regenerate plastic monomers (which works wh...
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Engineering the P450 Workhorse to Secure Supply Chains and Save Endangered Trees with Maria Astolfi
What if we could secure critical supply chains through bioengineering? What if the vaccines protecting millions worldwide didn't require harvesting 10,000 trees annually from Chilean mountains? Maria Astolfi is tackling this exact challenge thr...
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Solving for the P in NPK Fertilization Using Enzymes with Benjamin Scott
The global food system has a phosphorus problem that few people talk about. Unlike nitrogen, which cycles naturally through our atmosphere, phosphorus is mined from finite deposits and has no natural cycle. A massive 100-kilometer conveyor belt...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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What if Therapeutic-Grade Biotech Was Used for Environmental Remediation with Pranam Chatterjee
Imagine proteins engineered to seek out and bind toxic heavy metals, cleaning up contaminated sites and potentially treating metal poisoning in humans. In this episode, Duke University professor and entrepreneur Pranam Chatterjee s...
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Episode 18
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