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 • 31 episodes
The Climate Biotech Podcast
Latest Episodes
Microbial Consortia for Industrial Decarbonization with Ginger Krieg Dosier
On the most recent episode of the Climate Biotech Podcast, we are joined by Ginger Krieg Dosier, an architect-turned-biotech entrepreneur who created biocement at Biomason and is now building BIOME Consortia to accelerate biology's transition f...
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The Power of Curiosity with Shuguang Zhang
In this special episode, we sit down with Shuguang Zhang, Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Architecture in the MIT Media Lab and a mentor to countless biotech explorers. His personal story has at least one literal "1 in 100 Million" moment a...
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Reimagining Bioreactors to Solve Manufacturing Bottlenecks with Brian Heligman
Biomanufacturing doesn’t fail for lack of clever biology; it stalls at the factory gate. We sit down with Biosphere CEO Brian Heligman to unpack how a materials scientist’s journey through batteries and perovskites led to a bold thesis for the ...
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What Million Things are Circulating Inside You? with Jenna Hua
Pollution isn’t an abstract headline; it’s inside our bodies today. We sit down with Dr. Jenna Hua to reveal how small, everyday choices expose us to hormone-disrupting chemicals. Jenna explains why single-chemical research fails in a world of ...
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Synthetic Biology Acceleration with Pam Silver
Professor Pam Silver from Harvard Medical School joins us as a founding figure and legend in synthetic biology whose scientific path led from pioneering work on nuclear localization to co-developing the revolutionary "bionic leaf"—a system that...
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Episode 27
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