#5 Professor Alison Woollard - Mutants, Darwin and Genetic Engineering
The Biotech Podcast
12/27/20
•70m
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This week we talk to Alison Woollard, a professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, about her life's work in Developmental Biology. She offers her thoughts on the new, mutated coronavirus strain, the history of evolution and what GM technology might offer in the future.
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Full synopsis below:
00:00 - Intro
1:25 - Nematode Worms
10:33 - Developmental biology
15:54 - Meiosis, Differentiation and Pluripotency
22:47 - Cancers and Transcription factors
34:10 - Mutations and Coronavirus
42:17 - Heredity and Evolution
50:20 - Deepmind and Alphafold
55:03 - Genetic engineering
1:05:39 - Book recommendations
1:09:37 - Extro
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#4 - Dr Peter Clark: The Turing Test, Artificial Intelligence and the Aristo Project
December 18, 2020
•60m
This week we talk to Dr Peter Clark, Peter is the Senior Research Manager for AI2. His work focuses upon natural language processing, machine reasoning, and large knowledge bases, and the interplay between these three areas. He has received several awards including a AAAI Best Paper (1997), Boeing Associate Technical Fellowship (2004), and AAAI Senior Member (2014). Peter received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1991, and has researched these topics for 30 years with more than 80 refereed publications. We talk to peter about what makes a good test for intelligence, the nature of intelligence and his work over the last 20 years on the aristo project, which last year featured in the New York times as well as other new outlets across the world as a breakthrough in AI.
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Having worked with the likes of Freeman Dyson, we hear about the incredible achievements of Dr Bruce Alberts, winner of both the National medal of science in 2014 and the Lasker award in 2016.
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Full synopsis:
00:00 - Intro
01:30 - The scientific process
09:51 - Scientific thinking and education
24:25 - Writing 'Molecular biology of the cell', its intentions and its impacts
41:32 - DNA replication - mechanisms, evolution and discovering the biochemistry
1:03:54 - Book recommendations and advice
1:08.09 - Freeman Dyson, Leroy Hood and the Human Genome project
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