The Climate Biotech Podcast

Plant Genome Editing for Sustainable Agriculture with Evan Groover

On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, Paul Reginato is joined by Evan Groover, a plant synthetic biologist and postdoctoral fellow in Mary Gehring's lab at

RuBisCO Engineering for Climate-Resilient Agriculture with Robbie Wilson

On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, Paul Reginato is joined by Robbie Wilson, a research scientist in the Department of Chemistry at MIT, where he leads the R

Enabling Tools for Non-Model Organisms with Henry Lee

On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, we are joined by Henry Lee, CEO of Cultivarium, a Focused Research Organization (FRO) that accelerates the engineering of

Horizontal Gene Transfer and Environmental Release of Engineered Microbes with Kiara Reyes Gamas

On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, Paul Reginato is joined by Kiara Reyes Gamas, environmental synthetic biologist and non-resident postdoctoral scholar at R

Plant Synthetic Biology for Methane Mitigation with Eli Hornstein

On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, Paul is joined by Eli Hornstein, founder and CEO of Elysia Bio, a company engineering feed crops to address methane emissi

Farewell and Welcome: Dan Goodwin Passes the Mic to Paul Reginato

In Dan Goodwin’s final episode as host, The Climate Biotech Podcast reflects on over 30 episodes of conversations with scientists, entrepreneurs, and builders at the fron

Microbial Consortia for Industrial Decarbonization with Ginger Krieg Dosier

On the most recent episode of the Climate Biotech Podcast, we are joined by Ginger Krieg Dosier, an architect-turned-biotech entrepreneur who created biocement at Biomaso

The Power of Curiosity with Shuguang Zhang

In this special episode, we sit down with Shuguang Zhang, Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Architecture in the MIT Media Lab and a mentor to countless biotech explorer

Reimagining Bioreactors to Solve Manufacturing Bottlenecks with Brian Heligman

Biomanufacturing doesn’t fail for lack of clever biology; it stalls at the factory gate. We sit down with Biosphere CEO Brian Heligman to unpack how a materials scientist

What Million Things are Circulating Inside You? with Jenna Hua

Pollution isn’t an abstract headline; it’s inside our bodies today. We sit down with Dr. Jenna Hua to reveal how small, everyday choices expose us to hormone-disrupting c

Synthetic Biology Acceleration with Pam Silver

Professor Pam Silver from Harvard Medical School joins us as a founding figure and legend in synthetic biology whose scientific path led from pioneering work on nuclear l

Textile-immobilized Enzymes for CO2 Capture with Sonja Salmon

Sonja Salmon takes us on a fascinating journey through her 20-year quest to harness the power of enzymes and textiles to fight climate change. Her background in textile c

Optical biosensors for neural circuits and methane-eating enzymes with Loren Looger

When Loren Looger walks into a room, he doesn't want recognition, he wants to make things that work. The creator of revolutionary, open-source tools that transformed

Redirecting the Microbiome: Rethinking Copper Mining with Sasha Milshteyn

What happens when a structural biochemist turns his attention to mountains of rock? Dr. Sasha Milshteyn takes us on a remarkable journey from studying tiny molecular move

Transforming Minerals with Biology: Rare Earth Extraction and Carbon Storage with Buz Barstow and Esteban Gazel

Mining has essentially been the same for 5,000 years, just now with bigger shovels. Imagine if we could drastically increase mining efficiency and output for both the env

Redesigning Photosynthesis to Boost Agricultural Yield with Chris Eiben

What if we could reinvent photosynthesis itself? GigaCrop founder and CEO Chris Eiben has a mission to dramatically increase crop yields by redesigning one of biology&apo

The Global Plastics Problem and Protein Engineering with Cesar Ramirez-Sarmiento

The solution to plastic waste looks different depending on where you stand in the world. While Northern Hemisphere biotech approaches to plastic recycling focus on high-t

Engineering the P450 Workhorse to Secure Supply Chains and Save Endangered Trees with Maria Astolfi

What if we could secure critical supply chains through bioengineering? What if the vaccines protecting millions worldwide didn't require harvesting 10,000 trees annu

Solving for the P in NPK Fertilization Using Enzymes with Benjamin Scott

The global food system has a phosphorus problem that few people talk about. Unlike nitrogen, which cycles naturally through our atmosphere, phosphorus is mined from finit

What if Therapeutic-Grade Biotech Was Used for Environmental Remediation with Pranam Chatterjee

Imagine proteins engineered to seek out and bind toxic heavy metals, cleaning up contaminated sites and potentially treating metal poisoning in humans.  In this episode,