Podcasts by The Microscopists
The Microscopists is a podcast from Bitesize Bio and ZEISS Microscopy that takes you into revealing, entertaining, and personal meetings with the great microscopists of our time. Your host is Dr Peter O’Toole. Peter will help you understand what drives great, successful scientists, what really inspires them and what they enjoy most in life.
This set of candid, fun, and engaging interviews serves not only to help inspire upcoming scientists but to show how career tracks and work-life balance are managed by some of the best. Not only are they great at work, but they have some amazing stories to tell about their lives outside science.
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Teng-Leong Chew (HHMI Janelia Research Campus) from 2022-02-18T11:00
#39 — Ever wondered just what it’s like working at the HHMI Janelia Research Campus? Teng-Leong Chew, Director of the Advanced Imaging Center at Janelia, joins Peter O’Toole for episode #39 of The ...
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W. E. Moerner (Stanford University) from 2022-02-04T10:00
#38 — W. E. Moerner of Stanford University is a pioneer in the field of super-resolution imaging for cell biology. Tune in as W. E. joins Peter O’Toole and discover more about the work that led to ...
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Holly L. Aaron (UC Berkeley) from 2022-01-21T11:00
#37 — Peter O’Toole’s guest for episode #37 of The Microscopists is Holly L. Aaron, Director of the CRL Molecular Imaging Center at the University of California Berkeley. Tune in to this candid epi...
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Sir Paul Nurse (The Francis Crick Institute) from 2021-12-17T11:00
#36 – Today's guest on The Microscopists is Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse, Chief Executive and Director of The Francis Crick Institute in London. Paul's early career used microscopic screening to i...
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Jeremy Farrar (Wellcome) from 2021-12-03T10:00
#35 — You’re in for a treat in this episode of The Microscopists as we’re joined by Sir Jeremy Farrar, Director of Wellcome. We learn more about Jeremy’s work as an infectious diseases specialist, ...
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Michelle Itano (UNC) from 2021-11-19T10:00
#34 — Michelle S. Itano is the Director of the Neuroscience Center Microscopy Core at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. In this episode of The Microscopists, cellular biophysicist Miche...
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Mark Ellisman (UCSD) from 2021-11-05T10:00
#33 — Mark Ellisman, Director of the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR) at UCSD, is a leader in the development of 3D light and electron microscopy and its applications for...
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Martin Chalfie (Columbia University) from 2021-10-22T10:00
#32 — Today’s guest on The Microscopists is none other than Martin Chalfie of Columbia University.
In this inspiring episode, we discover more about the work on the discovery and developm...
Joerg Bewersdorf (Yale University) from 2021-10-08T10:00
#31 — Joerg Bewersdorf is a leader in developing fluorescence microscopy techniques for biomedical research, such as Pan-Expansion microscopy.
In today’s entertaining episode of The Micro...
Prisca Liberali (FMI) from 2021-09-24T10:00
#30 — Prisca Liberali of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) is a pioneer in the field of cellular self-organization and collective behaviors during developmental and reg...
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The Microscopists featuring Prisca Liberali (FMI) from 2021-09-24T10:00
#30 — Prisca Liberali of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) is a pioneer in the field of cellular self-organization and collective behaviors during developmental and reg...
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Jan Ellenberg (EMBL) from 2021-09-10T10:00
#29 — On this week’s episode of The Microscopists, we chat to Jan Ellenberg, Head of Cell Biology & Biophysics Unit at EMBL, Heidelberg. Jan’s current pioneering work focuses on cell division and n...
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Markus Sauer (University of Würzburg) from 2021-08-27T10:00
#28 — Markus Sauer of the University of Würzburg is a super-resolution microscopist and one of the pioneers behind dSTORM (direct stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy). In the latest episod...
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Judith Klumperman (UMC Utrecht) from 2021-08-13T10:00
#27 — Judith Klumperman is one of the leaders in the field of electron microscopy and her work has contributed hugely to our understanding of diseases of the endo-lysosomal system. In this episode ...
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Elizabeth M. C. Hillman (Columbia University) from 2021-07-30T10:00
#26 — You may know Elizabeth M. C. Hillman (Columbia University) as the pioneer behind SCAPE microscopy, but in episode #26 of The Microscopists, we’ll learn more about her early inspirations, how ...
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Harald Hess (HHMI Janelia Research Campus) from 2021-07-16T10:00
#25 — Harald Hess is a pioneer in the fields of high-throughput electron microscopy and super-resolution 3D microscopy, and today we’ll discover more about what inspired him, his move from academia...
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Chris Lintott (University of Oxford) from 2021-07-02T09:30
#24 — In this episode of The Microscopists, we’re joined by astronomer Professor Chris Lintott of the University of Oxford, co-founder of The Zooniverse citizen science platform, and a presenter on...
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Mark Bray (Novartis) and Pearl Ryder (Broad Institute) from 2021-06-18T10:00
#23 — In this episode of The Microscopists, we have a double-header for you as we’re joined by Mark Bray of Novartis and Pearl Ryder of the Carpenter Lab at the Broad Institute. Mark and Pearl shar...
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Richard Henderson (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) from 2021-06-04T10:00
#22 — In this episode of The Microscopists, we’re joined by molecular biologist, biophysicist and Nobel Laureate Richard Henderson from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. We’ll discuss some o...
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Stephani Otte (CZI) from 2021-05-21T10:00
#21 — In this episode of The Microscopists, we’re joined by Stephani Otte, Imaging Program Officer for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. We’ll discuss her move from neuroscience to managing the fundi...
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Yannick Schwab (EMBL) from 2021-05-07T10:00
#20 — In this episode of The Microscopists, we’re joined by Yannick Schwab of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, who is one of the pioneers of correlative light and electr...
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Jennifer Waters (Nikon Imaging Center) from 2021-04-23T10:00
#19 — Prepare for some serious houseplant envy in this episode of The Microscopists, as we talk to the multi-talented Jennifer Waters (@JenCWaters), Director of the Nikon Imaging Center at Harvard ...
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Anne Carpenter (Broad Institute) from 2021-04-09T10:00
#18 — You may know Anne Carpenter best as the brains behind the CellProfiler™ image analysis software, but today we learn more about what makes Anne tick, how she dealt with imposter syndrome, the ...
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Ernst H.K. Stelzer (Goethe-Universität) from 2021-03-26T11:00
#17 — There’s no question that Ernst H. K. Stelzer is a key figure in the world of high-resolution fluorescence microscopy, but did you know that his love of physics stemmed from a desire to build ...
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Spencer Shorte (Institut Pasteur) from 2021-03-12T11:00
#16 — You may know Spencer Shorte as Chief Scientific Officer to Institut Pasteur Korea, but as we’ll learn in today’s episode, he is also the creator of the Imagopol and the founder of the core fa...
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Ottoline Leyser (UKRI) from 2021-02-26T11:00
#15 — Along with becoming a Dame, Ottoline Leyser also recently became Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), a UK body dedicated to building a thriving, inclusive research and innov...
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Rita Strack (Nature Methods) from 2021-02-12T11:00
#14 — You may feel you know Rita Strack (Senior Editor at Nature Methods) already if you follow her engaging and friendly twitter feed (@rita_strack). But here we delve deeper to uncover her very s...
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Rainer Heintzmann (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) from 2021-01-29T11:00
#13 — You may know Rainer Heintzmann (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) as one of the pioneers of structured illumination microscopy (SIM) but here we delve more into the man behind the science, ...
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Eric Betzig (University of California) from 2021-01-22T11:00
#12 — This episode of The Microscopists was recorded LIVE with a very special guest - Eric Betzig!
We already know so much about Eric, but I hope that our chat will reveal more about the m...
Petra Schwille (Max Planck Institute) from 2020-12-18T11:00
#11 — Petra is a dedicated high flyer that simply loves her work (and her music, for which there is little she cannot play to concert level!). We chat about how she was given very little PhD superv...
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Jeff W. Lichtman (Harvard University) from 2020-12-04T11:00
#10 — From Cajal to Google, networks to solve networks! Jeff is another person who simply does not stop innovating and exploiting new technology. In this podcast, he talks about the very first time...
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Dan Davis (The University of Manchester) from 2020-11-20T10:00
#9 — What a time to chat with an immunologist! It makes a change to hear Dan talking about himself, how he developed his career, including the real motivation to becoming a Professor at Imperial at...
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Lucy Collinson (The Francis Crick Institute) from 2020-11-06T10:00
#8 — Lucy Collinson has been at the forefront of 3D volume and correlated electron microscopy since setting up the internationally renowned facilities at the Cancer Research UK London Research Inst...
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Hari Shroff (NIH) from 2020-10-23T09:00
#7 — Young, successful and still so disarming. In this episode, Hari Shroff reveals what it was like to work in the exciting area of Super-Resolution microscopy during its infancy, and discusses wo...
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Scott E. Fraser (University of Southern California) from 2020-10-09T07:00
#6 — It would be fair to say that Scott Fraser has influenced the microscopy community more than most. As the person behind the Meta detector, he made a massive impact on the microscopy community a...
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Ricardo Henriques (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência) from 2020-09-25T07:00
#5 — There’s no doubt that Ricardo’s career so far has been stellar. He’s moved up the career ladder at lightning speed, starting his own group in 2013, following only a brief postdoc, to holding a...
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Alison North & Kurt Anderson (Rockefeller & Francis Crick) from 2020-09-11T09:00
#4 — Ever wonder how people end up working in a core facility? You are about to find out. In this show, Peter O’Toole welcomes Alison North from The Rockefeller University in New York and Kurt Ande...
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Jason Swedlow (The University of Dundee) from 2020-08-27T14:30
#3 — In this latest episode, Peter O’Toole chats to Jason Swedlow of The University of Dundee, whose open-source tools are revolutionising microscopy. While Peter has known Jason for many years, th...
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Tony Wilson (The University of Oxford) from 2020-08-27T14:15
#2 — Step into a brief history of how the confocal microscope came to be! Peter O’Toole chats with one of the pioneers of the confocal microscope - Tony Wilson from the University of Oxford.
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) from 2020-08-27T14:00
#1 — Join this informal chat between Peter O’Toole and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz of The Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Beyond kayaking to work and a passion for plants, Jennifer explains how s...
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