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Your front-row seat to the human side of science. Hosted by Nobel laureate David Baker, we invite you to hear from real people at the forefront of AI, biology, chemistry, and physics. From moments of doubt to breakthroughs that change everything, these stories prove that great science isn’t just about what you find — it’s about who you become along the way.
Protein design pioneer David Baker has trained hundreds of scientists, published over 650 research papers, and launched more than 20 biotech companies. The Baker Lab at the University of Washington has become a hub for groundbreaking ideas and world-changing discoveries. Now, through this podcast, David is turning the spotlight onto the people who make it all happen. If you’ve ever wondered what it really takes to expand the frontier of knowledge, The Baker Lab Podcast is for you.
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- Summer Undergraduate Research - Nathan Greenwood · 31 min · Episodul 11Doing research over the summer as an undergraduate is a great way to experience what life is like as a scientist. In this episode, you’ll hear from students who visited us last…
- "Not Believing That I Cannot" - Parisa Hosseinzadeh · 51 min · Episodul 10As a new professor with a newborn, Parisa suffered a stroke that left her unable to walk or talk. She leaned on love and stubbornness to recover her voice, raise her child, lead…
- From Student to Professor - Linna An · 54 min · Episodul 9When is it time to walk away from a research project? For Linna, it happened after a year of frustrating experiments — when her PhD advisor helped her reframe what it means to do…
- Composing Complexity - Arvind Pillai · 60 min · Episodul 8What happens when a kid who sketches dinosaurs grows up to reimagine biology? In this episode, postdoctoral scholar Arvind Pillai traces his unexpected path from paleoart to…
- Winning iGEM, Building Companies - Ingrid Swanson Pultz · 1 h 16 min · Episodul 7Launching UW’s first iGEM team changed the course of Ingrid’s career. Her team built an enzyme to digest gluten that took first place in the biotech competition — and fueled a…
- Reprogramming Life - Yuliya Politanska · 47 min · Episodul 6Yuliya Politanska’s path to science began with onion cells and a microscope in her hometown of Chernivtsi, Ukraine. As a teen, she moved to the U.S. and grew comfortable speaking…
- Exploring Molecular Frontiers - Alexis Courbet · 47 min · Episodul 5Centuries ago, explorers set sail across vast oceans. Today, scientists like Alexis Courbet are navigating uncharted waters at the nanoscale. As a researcher at the Institute for…
- Inside the Nobel Prize - Ian Haydon · 34 min · Episodul 4Winning a Nobel Prize is a rare and extraordinary achievement—but what happens behind the scenes? In this episode, David Baker takes us inside his journey to Stockholm, from…
- Cures and Community - Jeremiah Sims · 37 min · Episodul 3Jeremiah Sims is trying to stop the next pandemic. As an MD/PhD trainee with a deep passion for public health, his research with David Baker focuses on outsmarting viruses. But…
- The Courage to Create - Susana Vazquez Torres · 27 min · Episodul 2Susana Vazquez Torres embodies courage. Born in Mexico, she moved to a big city to study science — and then crossed continents twice to advance her studies. Unfamiliar cultures…
- From Refugee to Scientist - Mohamad Abedi · 38 min · Episodul 1Born a Palestinian refugee, Mohamad Abedi didn’t have the luxury of exploring science as a kid. But at 17, when he unexpectedly immigrated to the United States, he discovered…
- Welcome to The Baker Lab Podcast · 1 minYour front-row seat to the human side of science. Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under CC BY 3.0.
