Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Justin Sanchez, Ph.D., assistant professor of pediatrics, neuroscience, and biomedical engineering at the University of Florida Neuroprosthetics Research Group

Dr. Rahul Sarpeshkar talks about how to improve electronic systems using biologically inspired design.

Guest: Rahul Sarpeshkar, Ph.D., associate professor, of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Running time: 1:04:11

Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Leo Laporte

The Personal Genome Project, making personal genome sequencing more affordable, accessible, and useful.

Guest: Dr. George Church, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Center for Computational Genetics.

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Running time: 1:20:48

Host: Marc Pelletier

Project Genome 10k, and how sequencing ten thousand vertebrate genomes will tell us about our past, present, and future.

Guest: Dr. David Haussler, professor of biomolecular engineering, University of California at Santa Cruz, director of the Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering, and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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Running time: 52:59

Hosts: Dr. Marc Pelletier, Ph.D., Justin Sanchez, Ph.D., and Mark Griswold, Ph.D.

Bio-inspired and biomedical electronics, circuit modeling of biology, and more.

Guests: Rahul Sarpeshkar, Ph.D., associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics: Fundamentals, Biomedical Applications, and Bio-inspired Systems

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Running time: 50:41

Hosts: Dr. Marc Pelletier, Ph.D. and Mark Griswold

How to build an MRI, and how it works.

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Running time: 1:01:44

Host: Dr. Marc Pelletier, Ph.D.

Panelists: George Farr Ph.D., Dave Brodbeck, Ph.D., Justin Sanchez Ph.D., and Vincent Racaniello Ph.D.

Marc and some the FiB regulars cover important stories in the biotechnology realm.

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Running time: 1:04:47

Hosts: Dr. Marc Pelletier and Dr. Kirsten Sanford

Guests Dr. Justin Sanchez Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Neuroscience, and Biomedical Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida

Dr. Justin Sanchez walks us through the technology of brain machine interfaces.

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Running time: 1:05:24

Hosts: Dr. Marc Pelletier and Dr. Andre Nantel

Guests: Edward Delong, Ph.D.

Dr. Delong discusses the use of metagenomics to understand microbial life in the Pacific Ocean.

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Running time: 51:12">

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Guests: Dr. Andre Nantel, Ph.D. and Dr. Oliver Smithies

Dr. Oliver Smithies discusses the present and future of genetic engineering

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Running time: 55:06">

Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Dave Brodbeck

An interview with Dr. Terrence Sejnowski about theoretical and computational biology and neurobiology.

Guest: Terrence Sejnowski of the Salk Institute

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Audible pick: This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, Abridged, By Daniel J. Levitin, Narrated by Edward Herrman. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.

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Running time: 56:25

Hosts: Marc Pelletier

Guest: Dr. Oliver Smithies; Professor, Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Marc talks with Dr. Oliver Smithies, 2007 Nobel Laureate, and father of mammalian genetic engineering.

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Running time: 51:06

Hosts: Marc Pelletier, Dave Brodbeck

Guest: John Gabrieli; Grover Herman Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Looking directly into the human mind with fMRI technology.

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Audible pick: Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Repiles, Unabridged, By Rene Descartes, Narrated by Paul Hecht. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.

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Running time: 1:09:39

Host: Marc Pelletier, Ph.D.

Panelists: Drs. Vincent Racaniello, Andre Nantel, Justin Sanchez, and Dave Brodbeck.

From wooly mammoths, to cybernetics, and controlling your computer with your brain, a panel discusses the recent big stories in bioscience.

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Running time: 1:28:27

Hosts: Dr. Marc Pelletier and Randal Schwartz

An interview with the host of This Week in Virology, Vincent Racaniello, on the topic of Swine Flu.

Guest: Dr. Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D., is a professor of Microbiology at the Columbia University Medical Center and the host of This Week in Virology.

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Running time: 1:03:47

Hosts: Dr. Marc Pelletier and Randal Schwartz

A follow-up look at Folding@Home, the world's most powerful distributed computing cluster, designed to perform computationally intensive protein folding simulations.

Guest: Dr. Vijay S. Pande, Director of Folding@Home and Associate Professor of Chemistry and of Structural Biology, Stanford University

Audible pick: Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist, Abridged, By Michael J. Fox, Narrated by Michael J. Fox. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.

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Running time: 1:16:52

Hosts: Dr. Marc Pelletier and Vincent Racaniello

Leading virologist Peter Palese explains why he revived a virus that killed 50 million people.

Guest: Peter Palese, professor and chair of microbiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.

In the winter of 1918-19, fifty million people died horrible deaths from the Spanish flu. The threat of this happening again today is ever so present. And while we have drugs that are fairly effective against influenza, they are not foolproof.

The possible devastation to humanity from this threat is extremely significant. The world will look to the best and brightest scientists and clinicians in hopes that they know and understand the virus well enough to fight it.

Dr. Palese has made great contributions to our understanding of influenza, and his scientific endeavors have given us the knowledge and tools to prevent this potential devastation.

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Running time: 1:09:20

Host: Dr. Marc Pelletier

Dr. Lisa Weasel discusses the controversies surrounding genetically-modified foods.

Guest: Dr. Lisa Weasel, associate professor of biology at Portland State University in Oregon, a member of Governor Ted Kulongoski's task force on developing public policy for bio-pharmaceutical crops in Oregon, and author of Food Fray: Inside the Controversy over Genetically Modified Foods.

Why isn't there a wide consumer acceptance of genetically modified (GM) foods? If we can design crops that reduce pesticides, grow more effectively in poor soil, bring nutrients such as vitamins A to populations with high incidences of blindness, or even just taste better, why are we hesitating?

Audible pick: On the Origin of Species, Abridged, By Charles Darwin, Narrated by Richard Dawkins. To sign up for a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.

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Running time: 48:04

Hosts: Dr. Marc Pelletier and Dr. Glen Ernstrom

Guest:Dr. Martin Chalfie; Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, Colombia University, New York, NY.

This is Part II of our conversation with Dr. Martin Chalfie. In this episode Dr. Chalfie shares the historical account of his contribution to the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: How he transformed a green fluorescent jellyfish protein into the most important biological marker used today, one that allows us to track the life of recombinant protein in a living cell.

Audible pick: The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments, by George Johnson, Narrated by dion Graham. To sign up for a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.

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Running time: 51:40

Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Dr. Glen Ernstrom

Guest: Marty Chalfie, 2008 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

This episode covers how Marty Chalfie discovered the molecular machinery that senses touch. In Part II, Chalfie describes how he developed one of the most important tools of modern molecular biology, one that allows us to see inside a living cells, down to the protein level. With green fluorescent protein, or GFP, we can now track the life of a protein, from when the gene that makes the protein is turned on, to where it goes, to where it dies.

Audible Pick: The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, Abridged, By Ernest Hemingway, Narrated by Stacy Keach.

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Running time: 57:56

Host: Marc Pelletier

Guest: Dr. Cynthia Kenyon; Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, Director of the Larry L. Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging.

We are back into a world leading lab to discuss the genetics of aging. Can it be controlled? You bet, and the implications are enormous. When these findings translate to the clinic, it will truly be a game changer for humanity.

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Audible Pick: Prey by Michael Crichton.

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Running time: 1:01:21