ACS Synthetic Biology Podcast

ACS Synthetic Biology September 2016 podcast interview with Spencer R. Scott, PhD student in the lab of Dr. Jeff Hasty at UC San Diego.

ACS Synthetic Biology August 2016 podcast interview with Harold Fellermann, Guest Editor, Special Issue on Programmable Biology.

ACS Synthetic Biology July 2016 podcast interview with Zhe Lyu on engineering an autotroph for geraniol production.

ACS Synthetic Biology June 2016 podcast interview with Jake Beal and Nathan Hillson on the SBOL initiative and the IWBDA 2015 special issue.

ACS Synthetic Biology May 2016 podcast interview with Yvonne Chen, Assistant Professor at the University of California in Los Angeles.

ACS Synthetic Biology April 2016 podcast interviews with Jessica Polka, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Pamela Silver Lab at the Harvard Medical School, and Saji Wickramasekara, CEO and founder of Benchling based in San Francisco, California.

ACS Synthetic Biology March 2016 podcast interview with Robert Smith, Assistant Professor at the Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

ACS Synthetic Biology February 2016 podcast interview with Dieter Soll on expansion of the genetic code.

ACS Synthetic Biology January 2016 podcast interview with William Bentley.

ACS Synthetic Biology December 2015 podcast interview with Pia Lindberg, senior author on a paper in our December issue.

ACS Synthetic Biology November 2015 podcast interview with Nanette Boyle on the Genome Engineering special issue.

ACS Synthetic Biology October 2015 podcast interview with Helen Toogood, first author on a paper in this month's issue - Enzymatic Menthol Production: One-Pot Approach Using Engineered Escherichia coli.

ACS Synthetic Biology September 2015 podcast interview with John Dueber on A Highly Characterized Yeast Toolkit for Modular, Multipart Assembly.

ACS Synthetic Biology August 2015 podcast interview with Ernst Oberortner on the IWBDA 2014 special issue.

ACS Synthetic Biology July 2015 podcast interview with Josh Cuperus, first author on a manuscript in this month's issue.

ACS Synthetic Biology June 2015 podcast interview with Katherine Ryan.

ACS Synthetic Biology May 2015 podcast interview with Julius Lucks, discussing a paper in the RNA Synthetic Biology special issue.

ACS Synthetic Biology April 2015 podcast interview with Steven Benner of the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution.

ACS Synthetic Biology March 2015 podcast interview with Claes Gustafsson on the mapping of amino acid substitutions to confer herbicide resistance in wheat.

ACS Synthetic Biology February 2015 podcast interview with Fuzhong Zhang on the Circuits in Metabolic Engineering Special Issue.

ACS Synthetic Biology January 2015 podcast interview with Richard Murray on the Synthetic Biology: Engineering, Evolution and Design Conference (SEED) 2014 Special Issue.

ACS Synthetic Biology December 2014 podcast interview with Joshua Leonard on the Design and Operation of Mammalian Cells Special Issue.

ACS Synthetic Biology November 2014 podcast interview with Mark Gomelsky on the Synthetic Photobiology special issue.

ACS Synthetic Biology October 2014 podcast interview with Charles Gersbach on the Engineered DNA-Binding Proteins/Transcription Factors Special Issue.

ACS Synthetic Biology September 2014 podcast interview with Michael Savageau.

ACS Synthetic Biology August 2014 podcast interview with Douglas Densmore on the International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA 2013) Special Issue.

The July 2014 Podcast features an Interview with Ting Lu, author of the Letter: Cloning and Optimization of a Nisin Biosynthesis Pathway for Bacteriocin Harvest.

Listen to highlights from ACS Synthetic Biology's June 2014 Special issue on Cell-Free Synthetic Biology. Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, speaks with Guest Editor, Dr. Michael Jewett, and with Sukanya Iyer, a first author on one of the papers featured in this issue.

In ACS Synthetic Biology's May 2014 podcast, Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, speaks with Dr. Hal Alper of the University of Texas in Austin about the enabling of rapid metabolic engineering.

Listen to highlights from the April 2014 issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, speaks with Cynthia Collins, Guest Editor of this month's special issue on Cell-Cell Communication.

Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, speaks with Dr. Tom Ellis - a Guest Editor of this month's Special Issue based on research presented at SB6.0: The Sixth International Meeting on Synthetic Biology.

In ACS Synthetic Biology's February podcast, Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj speaks with Nicholas Roehner about the need for engineering standards that combine descriptions of the structure and function of DNA.

In ACS Synthetic Biology's first podcast of 2014, Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, speaks with Danielle Tullman-Ercek about a directed evolution strategy to generate variants of an E. coli efflux pump.

Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, highlights content from the December 2013 issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. Federico Katzen from Life Technologies discusses the splitting of the E. coli chromosome into two linear chromosomes.

Listen to highlights from the November 2013 issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, discusses the discovery and engineering of natural products with Yiannis Kaznessis from the University of Minnesota and Huimin Zhao from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, highlights content from the October 2013 issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. Qing Nie discusses noise attenuation in the ON and OFF states of biological switches while Felix Moser describes a genetic sensor for strong methylating compounds.

Listen to highlights from the September 2013 issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj discusses cell-free gene expression noise in femtoliter volumes with Michael Simpson and fluorescent proteins for cell-free synthetic biology with Sheref Mansy.

Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, highlights content from the August 2013 issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. Hear from Robert Batey, at the University of Colorado in Boulder, on facile engineering of novel genetic regulatory devices and from Radhakrishnan Mahadevan, at the University of Toronto, on the analysis and design of genetics circuits for dynamic metabolic engineering.

Listen to highlights from the July 2013 Special Issue of ACS Synthetic Biology entitled, 'Natural Products: Tools and More'. Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, speaks with authors of two papers featured in this special issue. Hear from MIT's Dr. Timothy Lu and from Dr. Bradley Moore of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC- San Diego.

Listen to highlights from the June 2013 issue ofACS Synthetic Biology. Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, speaks with Agnieszka Janina Zygadlo Nielsen, first author on a paper that describes re-directing photosynthesis towards natural product synthesis and with Jeffrey Barrick, senior author on a paper detailing decaffeination by "addicted" bacteria.

Managing Editor Ranjini Prithviraj highlights content from the May special issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. This issue is based on work presented at the 2012 International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA). Hear from our guest editors Leonidas Bleris, Natasa Miskov-Zivanov and Chris Myers about the manuscripts featured in this issue and the work of the IWBDA.

Listen to highlights from April's issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. This month, Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, talks to Eric Henderson from Iowa State University about a new way of creating DNA nanostructures and to Kevin Truong from the University of Toronto about a set of proteins that can target and eliminate tumor cells.

Managing Editor Ranjini Prithviraj highlights content from the March issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. This month, we hear from Luke Alphey at the University of Oxford on engineering female-specific lethality for pest control and from Caroline Ajo-Franklin at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on electron conduits in E. coli.

Managing Editor Ranjini Prithviraj highlights content from the February issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. This month, hear from Jeffrey Gralnick at the University of Minnesota about engineering bacteria to bind gold electrodes and from Takanari Inoue at Johns Hopkins on synthesizing biomolecule-based boolean logic gates.

Listen to highlights from January's issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. This month, Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, speaks with Stephen Mayfield from the University of California in San Diego about the use of microalgae in the production of industrial molecules and with Justin Siegel from the University of California in Davis about microbially produced alkanes as biofuels.

Listen to highlights from December's issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. This month J. Christopher Anderson from the University of California at Berkeley talks to us about plasmid transfer using engineered phagemids while Robert Campbell from the University of Alberta in Edmonton discusses dimerization-dependent fluorescent proteins.

Managing Editor Ranjini Prithviraj highlights research content from the November Special Issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. This month, Guest Editor Sang Yup Lee from KAIST gives us an overview of the field of synthetic biology for strain development while James Clomburg from Rice University talks to us about his paper describing the reversal of the β-oxidation cycle.

Managing Editor Ranjini Prithviraj highlights research content from the October Special Issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. Listen to interviews with authors Matthew Bennett from Rice University and Gürol Süel at the University of California in San Diego.

Managing Editor Ranjini Prithviraj highlights research content from the September issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. This month we learn about the assembly of the bacteriophage T7 in a cell-free transcription-translation system and the development of efficient in vitro gene delivery vehicles. Listen to interviews with authors Vincent Noireaux from the University of Minnesota and Qiaobing Xu of Tufts University.

ACS Synthetic Biology Managing Editor Ranjini Prithviraj speaks with Guest Editor, Douglas Densmore of Boston University along with Erik Winfree, Pakpoom Subsoontorn and Jongmin Kim of Caltech, all authors of manuscripts featured in this issue.