The Next Experiment

A Billion Oil Tankers and a Slice of Cheese (with Claes Gustafsson)

“We compress DNA from oil-tanker scale to 96 wells - and still capture everything that matters.” 🎙️ The latest episode of The Next Experiment is out! Markus Gershater a

Only the Robust Survive (with Rob Howes)

“Most assays don’t fail because they’re wrong… they fail because they’re fragile.” This time, Markus Gershater and Phil Kay sat down with Rob Howes (Head of Biology & DM

JMP Discovery Summit LIVE (with Linden Schrecker)

“Some people don’t want experiments to be repeatable, they want them to feel like magic in their hands.” 🎙️The latest episode of “The Next Experiment” is here! This tim

The Quest for the Global Maxima (with Adam Winnifrith)

“Drug-resistant bacteria played the ultimate uno reverse card on us.” 🎙️The latest episode of “The Next Experiment” is here! This time, Markus and Phil sat down with Ad

Automation Saves Your Bacon (with Alex Rimmer)

"I wouldn’t describe DOE as easy — I’d describe it as extremely worthwhile.” 🎙️The latest episode of “The Next Experiment” is here! This time, Markus and Phil sat down

Choose Your Fighter: Bayesian vs DOE (with Owen Jonathan)

This time, Markus and Phil sat down with Owen Jonathan, who brings a refreshingly open and grounded perspective on learning – and teaching – DOE in real biological system

DOE, The Right Thing (with Keara Sutherland)

If efficiency is the name of the game in process development, then Design of Experiments (DOE) is the playbook you didn’t know you needed. But how do you actually apply

Bonus Episode: Statisticians vs Biologists

Making multidimensional experiments a reality doesn’t just sit with one discipline.  Most commonly, it involves biologists and statisticians. So, what’s the key to open

Starry-Eyed and Sobering Views on AI in Biology

If data is the new oil in an AI centric world, then amassing ever-larger multidimensional datasets can only be a good thing.  But how can we use these datasets to gain d

What the Past Teaches Us About Future Experiments

To explore what the future of multidimensional experiments might look like, we decided to look back. In this episode, we explored how different multi-dimensional (aka De

The Magic of Multidimensional Experiments – Part 2

In this episode, we delve into Markus’ experiences with doing multidimensional biological experiments manually—from the exhilarating progress he made, to the definitive r

The Magic of Multidimensional Experiments — Part 1

It’s easy to say that the tried-and-tested way of doing biology isn’t helping us progress. It’s quite another to embrace new approaches.  That’s what we’re covering in

Are We Doing Biology Wrong?

In our first episode of The Next Experiment, we start by unpacking that all-important question:  Why is biology so hard?  In order to answer it, we get into the fundame

The Next Experiment Trailer

We’re Markus and Phil, a biologist and statistician. We decided to come together and discuss the best experiments to cut through biological complexity. If you have thi