Once a Scientist

Dec 18 2024 95 ep. 77 mins 60

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90. Barry Bunin, CEO at Collaborative Drug Discovery, on tapping into the collective consciousness of science.

Dec 18 2024 77 mins

Episode 90. Barry Bunin is the CEO and President at Collaborative Drug Discovery, which he founded 20 years ago. Prior to that, Barry was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Eli Lilly. He completed his PhD in Bioorganic Chemistry at UC Berkeley and his bachelor's degree in chemistry at Columbia University. To learn more about CDD: https://www.collaborativedrug.com/ai-drug-discovery#Bio

89. Seemay Chou, CEO of Arcadia Science, on metascience and rethinking the structure of science

Oct 30 2024 64 mins

Seemay Chou is co-founder and CEO at Arcadia Science, Board Member at Astera Institute, and Board Chairperson at The Navigation Fund. Seemay was previously an assistant professor at UCSF and completed her PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley.

88. Gene Yeo, professor at UC San Diego, on team science and building a training playground

Sep 30 2024 73 mins

Episode 88. Eugene Yeo is a Professor at UC San Diego and is building a scientific ecosystem in San Diego. He runs the Innovation Center at Sanford Stem Cell Institute, is Scientific Director at the Sanford Consortium, Chief Scientist at the Sanford labs for Innovative Medicines, and Director of UC San Diego’s Center for RNA Technologies and Therapeutics.

87. Jesse Gray and Sud Pinglay, at SeaHub, on recording cellular activity and making big bets

Aug 30 2024 64 mins

Episode 87. Sudarshan Pinglay is a researcher at the University of Washington and faculty at the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology (SeaHub). He did his PhD at New York University and bachelor's degree at Johns Hopkins. Jesse Gray is a Senior Director at SeaHub. He previously worked in industry at Ascidian Therapeutics and as a professor at Harvard Medical School. Jesse completed hi

86. Prachee Avasthi, CSO at Arcadia Science, on exercising agency and doing science differently

Jul 17 2024 68 mins

Episode 86. Prachee Avasthi is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Arcadia Science and Head of Open Science at the Astera Institute. Prachee was previously a professor at Dartmouth and University of Kansas. She completed a PhD in Neuroscience at University of Utah and her bachelor's degree at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

85. Fay Lin, science journalist and editor, on seeking out diverse voices and learning from experts

May 29 2024 46 mins

Episode 85. Fay Lin is a Senior Editor at GEN Biotechnology. She completed her PhD in Biochemistry, Molecular, and Structural Biology at UCLA and undergrad in Biology at NYU with minors in Computer Science and Chemistry. GEN Biotechnology website: https://home.liebertpub.com/genbio Call for Papers: Special Issue in AI in Biotechnology: https://home.liebertpub.com/cfp/special-issue-

84. Maryann Martone, professor at UC San Diego, on neuroinformatics, reproducibility, and open science

Apr 24 2024 78 mins

Episode 84. Maryann Martone is an emeritus professor of neuroscience at UC San Diego. She received her BA from Wellesley College in Biological Psychology and Ancient Greek and her PhD in Neuroscience from the UC San Diego

83. Anand Muthusamy, Convergent Research fellow, on going after ambitious scientific moonshots

Mar 20 2024 80 mins

Anand Muthusamy is a Fellow at Convergent Research, where he's laying the groundwork for a focused research organization (FRO) to monitor the real-time activity of biomarkers in humans. Anand is a chemist and neuroscientist. He recently completed his PhD at Caltech, worked at Janelia Research Campus, and did his undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania. Check out his recent pape

82. Alexander Titus, professor and entrepreneur, on why scientists make great entrepreneurs

Jan 31 2024 44 mins

Episode 82. Alexander Titus is a professor at USC, doing research at the intersection of biology and AI. He completed his PhD in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences at Dartmouth. He's also the founder of Bioeconomy.xyz and advises the U.S. Government on AI and national security. Titus spent time at McKinsey and Google and helped build Colossal Biosciences and Form Bio.

81. Ashley Ruba, academic expat and career coach, on being nimble and making pivots

Jan 17 2024 60 mins

Episode 81. Ashley Ruba is the founder of After Academia and a Human Factors Engineer at Arthrex. Ashley did her PhD in developmental psychology at the University of Washington and her undergrad degree at Duke University. Show Notes: Infant language and emotional development lab [02:00] NIH NRSA Institutional Postdoc Training Grant (T32) [03:48] Ashey’s academic story [01:45] Lea