A Coffee with CompBio

Women’s Health: The Data, Tech, and Opportunities Driving a New Era of Women's Health

Our first-ever live recording, from the BWIB 2026 Fall Fundraiser: a panel on the data, tech, and funding shaping women's health. Links: Season 1 Archive Thanks to Amu

"Who Do You Know?" — Networking in Bioinformatics

Networking is really just talking, but doing it well in bioinformatics takes strategy. Join Dina and Saba as they break down how to make meaningful connections at confere

Academia or Industry? Advice, Regrets and Real Talk

Academia or Industry? Join us as we talk to two scholars in academia and two scientists in industry. They share a day in their life, what they would redo and how they nav

Boston to the Bay: Building Bioinformatics Communities, from Coast to Coast & Beyond

Bioinformatics is a field built on collaboration and some of the most meaningful work happens beyond the lab and workplace. In our latest podcast episode, we chat with ou

A Coffee with Lorena Pantano: science, community, and the work that connects them

In this episode of A Coffee with CompBio, we sit down with Lorena Pantano - a bioinformatician with about two decades of experience, founder of Boston Women+ in Bioinform

Wired Different: Neurodiversity in Bioinformatics

May is mental health awareness month and we're highlighting neurodiversity with an open and insightful conversation centered on lived experience and understanding. In thi

Behind the "We'll Be in Touch" Emails: ArkeaBio's Lauren and Kaye on How to Get Hired in Bioinformatics

What does it really take to land a bioinformatics role? In this episode, we sit down with Lauren Fitch, the Head of Computational Biology at ArkeaBio and Kaye Guerard-Hat

Claude Code for Bioinformatics

Claude code has taken over the tech world like a storm. But how good is Claude code when it comes to Bioinformatics and Computational Biology? In this episode of A Coffee

Hacking your way into computational biology

Hackathons are not just for coders anymore — computational biologists have made it their own with data, models, and insights! Hackathons can be a great way to understand

12 New Year Resolutions For Computational Biologists

New year, new episode, new comp-bio goals and new hosts. But first, we wish you a very Happy New Year! Most new year's resolutions fail due to lack of clarity, so to make

A Comp-bio holiday calendar: 12 tools and tips to make this holiday season a fantastic one!

As our first season comes to an end, we would like to wish all of our listeners a very happy holiday season. But wait! We also have some presents for our listeners. In th

Collaboration Survival Guide for CompBio

What really happens when a wet lab scientist and a computational biologist sit down to plan an experiment? Spoiler: it's not always smooth sailing. In this episode of 'A

A coffee with Saranya Canchi - Fail, learn, repeat, the bioinformatics way!

In this episode of A Coffee with Comp Bio, hosts Alex Bartlett and Lorena Pantano sit down with Saranya Canchi, a computational biologist specializing in neuroscience. To

(Dry) Lab Notebooks: The Importance of Recordkeeping in CompBio

Grab your coffee and join us for another episode of Coffee with CompBio!  This time, we kick things off with Amulya, a PhD student at Boston University and co-chair of B

The Spatial Transcriptomics Toolkit: Memory, Clustering, and Deconvolution

In this episode, Alex and Lorena tackle the computational challenges of spatial transcriptomics. Learn how BPCells can help you work with millions of cells without needin

A coffee with Katie Hughes - First hand experience on transitioning to a Product Manager role

Alex Barlett and Lorena Pantano welcome Katie Hughes, their first guest, to discuss her career transition from bioinformatics to product management. Katie shares her jour

R You Doing It Right? Modern Best Practices in R

Alex and I dig into the tricks and tips that'll actually make your R code work better. We're talking about ditching those old habits we all picked up and switching to cod

Fast, Private, and Publish-Ready Spatial Transcriptomics App (Without Losing Your Mind)

In this episode, we journey through the real-life challenges of building interactive single cell spatial data visualizations for large projects. Lorena shares her recent

R Markdown: Because RNA-seq Code Shouldn't Be Wild-Type

Alex and Lorena discuss a large bulk RNA-seq project that yielded lasting changes to their group’s everyday bioinformatics practices via the creation of parameterized R M

The Thousand-Dollar Alignment

In this episode of A Coffee with CompBio, Lorena and Alex share the twists and turns of realizing their methylation data wasn’t what it seemed. From puzzlingly low mappin