The Living Revolution

May 10 2024 43 ep. 35 mins 8
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Biotechnology, synthetic biology and biological engineering for people who want to build a better future.  Towards the bioeconomy and beyond!

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IndiaBioscience with Dr. Karishma Kaushik | The Living Revolution

May 10 2024 39 mins  
IndiaBioscience is an organisation serving as the bridge between the ivory towers of academic research, clinicians, and the wider public, It serves to take the science funded by public money and give it back to the community, whether it is through outreach programmes, mentorship schemes or getting people in the same room for fruitful discussions. Executive director Dr. Karishma Kau

The Wastewater Treatment Nexus: Energy, Nutrients and Water with CEO of ThinkTIM Marc Wehmeijer | The Living Revolution

Apr 19 2024 39 mins  
Wastewater is a gold mine for energy, nutrients and water. Marc Wehmeijer dispels myths about breaking in to the wastewater industry, and takes us on a tour of the global wastewater treatment landscape from the deserts of Durango, Mexico to the Swiss Alps. Marc Wehmeijer is the CEO of ThinkTIM, a company that designs, manufactures, installs and services wastewater treatment recycli

Cultivating algae | Peter Mponzi with The Living Revolution

Apr 06 2024 54 mins  
Algae is a high potential and high protein food. Learn how engineers and entrepreneurs like Peter Mponzi are using algae to cultivate the future of nutrition. Peter Mponzi is a chemical process engineer by training and current entrepreneur in algal production. He has eight plus years experience in the renewable fuel industry, and is currently focusing specifically on downstream alg

Modern agriculture and Synthetic biology | The Living Revolution with Wageningen iGEM 2023

Sep 20 2023 36 mins  
Join us for a whirlwind tour of the key problems with modern agriculture and the alternative emerging technologies. In this final episode with Agata the biocontainment researcher and Simon, Head of Human Practices, from the Wageningen iGEM team, we discuss how synthetic biology can be used as a technology to prevent crop frost damage. We reflect on using synthetic biology in agricu

Biobricks, GMOs, IP and the art of DNA detection | The Living Revolution with iGEM Wageningen 2023

Aug 04 2023 29 mins  
In an iGEM competition, open source interchangeable parts of genetic material (BioBricks) allow hundreds of teams of students to create synbio solutions to real world problems. Joined by captain Johannes and treasurer Niko from the 2023 Wageningen iGEM team, we discuss their challenges and ideas about creating novelty, using non-model organisms, and the importance of educating ours

Preventing frost damage, joining iGEM and what it takes to make a team | Wageningen 2023

Jul 16 2023 35 mins  
The Wageningen iGEM Team is developing a solution to prevent frost damage using synthetic biology. Listen to find out more about how frost damage affects farmers, markets and us as consumers, and how Wageningen plan the scientific aspects of their project. Get an insight into the dynamics of team work and the attitudes of aspiring scientists. If you enjoyed this episode, follow us

Protecting Biotechnological Breakthroughs: A Discussion with IP Specialists | Sara Holland and David Holt

Jun 16 2023 64 mins  
Can you patent a newly discovered protein? Does getting a patent depend on the application? What does intellectual property encompass? Our guests, IP specialists Sara Holland and David Holt from Potter Clarkson, join us to shed light on these topics and explore why protecting biotechnological innovations is crucial. Get ready to expand your knowledge and better understand what can

Sampling from the ocean, Mischief and Misery, curiousity-driven research | Sebastian Cocioba

Mar 08 2023 20 mins  
Sebastian Cocioba is an amateur scientist pursuing his scientific curiousities from his home lab and mentoring young scientists via Binomica Labs. His mission is to enable agency through building open source tools and allow anyone to explore the world around them. Coming up in this episode, we talk oceans, what lives in different benthic zones, and also about jargon and communicati

An Ecosystem of Open Source Directed Evolution Robots | Sebastian Cocioba

Mar 06 2023 29 mins  
Sebastian Cocioba is an amateur scientist conducting research from his home lab. In our previous episode, we discussed how he's building tools for the future molecular florists. Here and now, we take this topic further, starting with the example of a DIY directed evolution machine made cheaply. If you're an engineering student, we encourage you to make, improve and remake his desig

Molecular Florists, Binomica Labs, the M9 Media, Photobiology | Sebastian Cocioba

Mar 03 2023 31 mins  
Sebastian Cocioba is a scientist and researcher building open source tools to make research easier and cheaper. Do you, by any chance, know where the M9 media comes from and what it was originally used? Sebastian takes us on a two year journey to discover the origin paper of this medium and how he ended up falling in love with photobiology, better defining his research questions an