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PODCAST

The molpigs Podcast

Welcome to molpigs, the Molecular Programming Interest Group! molpigs is a group aimed at PhD students and early career researchers within the fields of Molecular Programming, DNA Computing, and other related specialties. We run most of our events in the form of podcasts, which you can find right here!

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47:02

Molecular Programming Decadal Flightplan: Panel on...

The molpigs Podcast ·

2025/07/16

Our sister organization, the Molecular Programming Society, is organizing a Decadal Flightplan Initiative, gathering researchers from across molecular programming in Seattle next week to sketch out what the next 10 years of the field could look like. They'll be thinking about what types of research should be done, what technology we need to develop, and also how we should work together as a community. Since not everybody can join in Seattle, they asked if we could convene an international panel to

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65:32

Molecular Programming Decadal Flightplan: Panel on...

The molpigs Podcast ·

2025/07/16

Our sister organization, the Molecular Programming Society, is organizing a "Decadal Flightplan Initiative", gathering researchers from across molecular programming in Seattle next week to sketch out what the next 10 years of the field could look like. They'll be thinking about what types of research should be done, what technology we need to develop, and also how we should work together as a community. Since not everybody can join in Seattle, they asked if we could convene an international panel to

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56:52

molpigs Team: 4 years in the sty

The molpigs Podcast ·

2024/09/13

On this episode of the molpigs Podcast we introduce the new members of the molpigs team and re-introduce the long-term hosts, Boya Wang and Erik Poppleton. Hannah and Georgeos have stepped down from the podcast team, though Hannah continues to support us from behind the scenes. Joining us today are our two new members, Spencer Winter and Anuhya Edupuganti. On this episode we interview each other about why we're here, our strengths, our dreams, and why you should host boardgame nights at DNA

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52:19

Viktorija Glembockyte: Light-based diagnostics

The molpigs Podcast ·

2024/05/07

On this episode the molpigs team talks with Viktorija Glembockyte, a postdoc in the Tinnefeld lab at Ludwig-Maximilians University. Her research focuses on how we can make highly sensitive diagnostic tools for a variety of biomolecules using DNA origami to merge sensing with signal amplification. She describes how her scientific and management skills have grown from her time in a hardcore chemistry lab, to now starting her own independent group. --- Viktorija Glembockyte did her bachelors in

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55:28

Jacob Majikes: The boring, basic details of molecular...

The molpigs Podcast ·

2024/03/05

On this episode the molpigs team talks with Jacob Majikes, the ‘boring materials physics’ expert of the DNA origami field. We discuss the incentive structures of the field, Hatch Act violations*, and how guinea pig bedding relates to biologics production. He explains to us how the National Institute of Standards and Technology became interested in DNA origami and how defining ‘yield’ of a structure is a more challenging problem than you would expect. He also shares the excitement and challenges of

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45:41

Zibo Chen: What's really cool is when it's functional...

The molpigs Podcast ·

2023/07/04

In this episode of the molpigs podcast, Hannah, Boya and Erik talk with Zibo Chen, a new professor at Westlake University about his scientific journey through the world of biological information system design. We discuss how he went from designing DNA, to proteins, to entire cellular systems. Designing with different materials requires different design and modeling methods. We also take a look to the future and how he plans to take protein-based neural networks from living cells to synthetic

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47:26

Ashwin Gopinath: Merging top-down and bottom-up...

The molpigs Podcast ·

2023/06/05

On this episode, the molpigs team talks with Ashwin Gopinath about bridging size scales in nanomaterial size scales. We explore his journey from optical physics to learning DNA nanotechnology in the Rothemund lab and his current projects and vision for highly multiplexed molecular measurements. Ashwin's career path has been quite the adventure, starting in academia, working for Google and then starting and later selling his own company. Finally, we turn to ways that AI is going to change research

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47:27

Katherine Dunn

The molpigs Podcast ·

2022/12/20

Join the molpigs team for a discussion with Prof. Katherine Dunn from the University of Edinburgh about her work on using DNA nanotechnology for medical applications and her exciting new ideas regarding "electrosynbionics," using biological engineering to tackle hard problems in energy production and storage. She also discusses her experiences transitioning from terahertz spectroscopy to biophysics and the challenges in teaching and mentoring students to prepare them for a variety of career paths

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58:31

Erika DeBenedictis

The molpigs Podcast ·

2022/10/30

This week’s podcast is with Erika DeBenedictis, a new principal investigator who is founding her lab at the Crick Institute in London. Her lab will focus around the broad field of bioautomation, but before talking about any of that, we delve into her past. Erika is just another one in a long string of podcast guests who has had an unconventional entry into the field of molecular programming! She started her scientific career interested in space science, telling us that her interest was kindled as a

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58:10

Grigory Tikhomirov

The molpigs Podcast ·

2022/07/29

In this episode the molpigs team talks with Greg Tikhomirov about his experience starting a new molecular programming lab and his visions for “a new nanotechnology”. We learn about his journey from wanting to build large, beautiful molecules to his work at the interface between molecular design and material science. Greg Tikhomirov is an assistant professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, with a background in chemistry, bioengineering, medicine, and nanotechnology. He has a

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48:56

Eva Bertosin: A DNA rotary mechanism with coordinated...

The molpigs Podcast ·

2022/06/04

Join the molpigs team for a conversation with Eva Bertosin about her work on building nanoscale rotors during her PhD with Hendrik Dietz. This is a "poster podcast," so we will occasionally be referencing figures in the associated poster which can be found at the link below. The DNA origami rotor was inspired by the rotational mechanism of ATP synthase, which Eva and her colleagues had to simplify and abstract to create a functional DNA structure which could demonstrate rotational diffusion. She

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66:34

Anne Condon

The molpigs Podcast ·

2022/04/29

Join the molpigs team as they have a discussion with one of the theoretical giants of molecular programming: Anne Condon. Over the wide-ranging conversation, she shares her insights on NP-complete problems, solving RNA folding with good data, and how best to teach and mentor students in a manner that creates great researchers and facilitates diversity in the field. Anne Condon is a professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, of which she was formerly head of department, and

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64:56

Jurek Kozyra

The molpigs Podcast ·

2022/04/07

On this episode Hannah, Boya, Erik and new co-host Dhaval sit down with Jurek Kozyra, founder of the molecular programming startup, Nanovery. Over the course of this wide-ranging interview, he tells us about how learning biology can help your dating life, his PhD work at the intersection of biotech and computer science and his early ventures in cherry picking and private investigation before diving into his story of building a successful startup with funders, employees, and lab space. Jurek Kozyra

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47:16

Sam Schaffter

The molpigs Podcast ·

2022/02/18

Join us for a chat with Sam Schaffter, a postdoc at NIST working on realizing complex transcription-based strand displacement in living systems. We start the conversation with the story of how he made the transition from the molecular biology of food to molecular programming. We then move on to the details of his research on transcriptional circuits including where the idea came from and the trials of taking molecular computing from the test tube to cell systems. He tells us about the differences

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52:06

Sifang Chen

The molpigs Podcast ·

2021/12/12

Join us for a relaxed chat with Sifang Chen, a science policy post-doc, for a slightly different discussion. We speak about Sifang’s past, how she got into DNA nanotech and molecular programming, her research on biosensors and DNA programmable materials, and how she switched to this field from quantum and graphene based devices. We then moved on to talking about science in a broader scope, starting off with the big question of how Synthetic Biology and related fields will help in the fight against

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55:17

Damien Woods

The molpigs Podcast ·

2021/11/07

Today we’re talking with Damien Woods, a professor and molecular programmer at the Hamilton Institute, Maynooth University, Ireland. We first began by talking about how his early interests in dynamics and optical computers (the subject of his PhD thesis) led him to the field of molecular programming. We then move on to talking about one of Damien’s well known papers, Diverse and robust molecular algorithms using reprogrammable DNA self-assembly. In this paper, Damien describes the implementation of

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63:12

Dave Doty

The molpigs Podcast ·

2021/09/05

In our latest Meet The Molecular Programmer, our guest was David Doty. We dove right in to the way he splits his research time, which has been between software development, theory, and sometimes experiments! He talks about how his experience doing his first experiment made him realise the need for good software, as good software enables good experiments. We then moved on to discussing what “nice” theory is. Doty explains how typically people seek to publish the most elegant, and often complicated

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59:06

William Poole

The molpigs Podcast ·

2021/07/31

This week we spoke with William Poole, a graduate student at Caltech working on quite a few topics! His research spans synthetic/systems biology to molecular programming, software development to chemical reaction network (CRN) theory, machine learning to cell free systems. We certainly had a lot to talk about! We started off by discussing BioCRNPyler, a library which Will has been working on that allows for the rapid development and compilation of complex CRNs. He describes how BioCRNPyler can help

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53:55

Anastasia, Boya, Georgeos, Hannah: Meet the Committee

The molpigs Podcast ·

2021/07/19

Join us in this experimental episode as our conversation turns inwards! Instead of finding out about the life and interests of someone from the field, we share some of our own views and anecdotes. We discuss a little about who we are, graduate school, the definition of the field, and more. Hannah, the founder of molpigs, gives a bit of an insight into what the motivation for starting molpigs was and what they hope this project will achieve. Boya, our newsletter editor, explains how learning more

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53:04

Lee Organick

The molpigs Podcast ·

2021/05/27

Today we are joined by Lee Organick, a PhD student in the Molecular Information Systems Lab (MISL) at the University of Washington. Lee is a biologist turned computer scientist and engineer, quite a unique transition! She explains how she was “forced” to take a computer science class in her undergrad, which opened up a completely new field of interests. After this, she started incorporating more programming into her research, and as such slowly moved into more computational fields. This is how she

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