BioPOD
Explore the edges of known biology and meet the people - a podcast direct from the PhD students at the heart of university research. BioPOD is the official podcast from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Edinburgh.
Latest Episode
AI in healthcare (03.09.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Signs of life: detecting biosignals from fossil
- Cell clocks: the circadian rhythm of the cells
- Fossil detective: piecing together the neurobiology of fossil mammals
- Science and Policy with Prof. Andrew Millar
- Becoming your own scientist
- Entrepreneurship Series: ConceptionX, UK’s leading PhD deep-tech venture programme
- Conservation genetics with Dr Alex Ball
- Unstable fungal resistance
- Combining Art & Science: How and Why
- Entrepreneurship series: E.V.A Biosystems ft. Dr. Alex Speakman
- Aging sheep: long-term population studies in St Kilda
- AMR through time with Katerina Guschanski
- Primate Evolution with Dr Katerina Guschanski
- The world of editing
- Entrepreneurship series: NucBarcoder- Barcoding DNA to identify various species ft. Dr. Wu Huang
- Science communication and Education
- The ins and outs of scientific publishing
- Let’s chat, meet Prof. Thorunn Helgason, new head of Biology School at the University of Edinburgh
- Plant fossils and the story they tell
- Introduction to RNA Therapies with Prof Amy Buck
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