Pint of Science pintofscience

Welcome back to a special mini-series of the Pint of Science podcast: Untold Stories. 2023 marks the tenth anniversary of Pint of Science and we decided to chat to people behind the organisation and creation of the festival as well as those that have taken part over the years.
In this episode we talk to two speakers who have presented at Pint of Science, Constance Schéré & Dr Stephen Fay.
How did they hear of Pint of Science? How was it to give a Pint of Science talk? Did it make them want to do more science communication or help in the way they presented their future research?
Find out in this episode as Dr Elodie Chabrol, International Director of Pint of Science asks them these questions.
*******************
The Pint of Science podcast is a part of the Pint of Science Festival, the world's largest science communication festival. Thousands of guests and speakers descend on pubs, cafés and spaces in hundreds of cities worldwide to introduce science in a fun, engaging, and usually pint-fuelled way.
 
This year, Pint of Science UK celebrates its 10th anniversary, #pint23! We’ll be in pubs and cafés across the country on the evenings of Mon 22nd, Tue 23th and Wed 24th of May 2023!
More about Pint of Science UK at pintofscience.co.uk or on Twitter @pintofscience
More about Pint of Science worldwide at pintofscience.com or on Twitter @pintsworld

Welcome back to a special mini-series of the Pint of Science podcast: Untold Stories. 2023 marks the tenth anniversary of Pint of Science and we decided to chat to people behind the organisation and creation of the festival as well as those that have taken part over the years.
 
We continue the series by talking to two organisers, Dr Cristina Perez  & Dr Shaline Fazal. 
How did they hear of Pint of Science? What do they do in the festival? What does Pint of Science bring to their lives? 
Find out in this episode as Dr Elodie Chabrol, International Director of Pint of Science asks them these questions.
 
*******************
The Pint of Science podcast is a part of the Pint of Science Festival, the world's largest science communication festival. Thousands of guests and speakers descend on pubs, cafés and spaces in hundreds of cities worldwide to introduce science in a fun, engaging, and usually pint-fuelled way.
 
This year, Pint of Science UK celebrates its 10th anniversary, #pint23! We’ll be in pubs and cafés across the country on the evenings of Mon 22nd, Tue 23th and Wed 24th of May 2023!
More about Pint of Science UK at pintofscience.co.uk or on Twitter @pintofscience
More about Pint of Science worldwide at pintofscience.com or on Twitter @pintsworld

Welcome back to a special mini-series of the Pint of Science podcast: Untold Stories. 2022 marks the tenth edition of Pint of Science and we decided to chat to people behind the organisation and creation of the festival as well as those that have taken part over the years.
 
We start with the two co-founders, Dr Praveen Paul and Dr Michael Motskin who were research scientists at Imperial College London where they first met and came up with the idea. At the time they hardly knew each other and had no experience of running events or any intention to create an annual festival.
 
So how did they get the idea of Pint of Science? How did they start? How do they feel now that it's a worldwide event? Find out in this episode as Dr Elodie Chabrol, International Director of Pint of Science asks them these questions.
 
Like what we do? Be sure to subscribe to us and rate us on your favourite podcasting platform!
*******************
The Pint of Science podcast is a part of the Pint of Science Festival, the world's largest science communication festival. Thousands of guests and speakers descend on pubs, cafés and spaces in hundreds of cities worldwide to introduce science in a fun, engaging, and usually pint-fuelled way.
 
This year, Pint of Science UK is back for its 10th edition, #pint22! We’ll be in pubs and cafés across the country on the evenings of Mon 9th, Tue 10th and Wed 11th of May 2022!
More about Pint of Science UK at pintofscience.co.uk or on Twitter @pintofscience
More about Pint of Science worldwide at pintofscience.com or on Twitter @pintsworld
 

Welcome to the third and final episode of our very exciting three-part mini series of the Pint of Science podcast, in collaboration with bit.bio, the cell coding company. The series wraps up with Dr Ramy Ibrahim, bit.bio’s Chief Medical Officer and a leading immuno-oncologist. 
Ramy explores how the field of immuno-oncology has evolved from fringe research to a 2011 breakthrough, when the US FDA approved the first immune therapy treatments for skin cancers, and on to his work as Chief Medical Officer of the Parker Institute for cancer immunotherapy, researching effective cell therapies for solid tumours.
We explore how bit bio caught his attention about bit.bio is the company's examination of cells themselves and how to reproduce them reliably and on a grand scale, and the incredible possibilities this raises for medical treatments. 
Interested in the concept that cells can be reprogrammed? It was certainly an inspiration for the foundation of bit.bio, and you can read a bitesize review of the science that enables the technology to work here: https://bit.bio/resources/bits-of-bio/
 

Subscribe: Spotify | TuneIn | Stitcher | Apple
The Pint of Science podcast is a part of the Pint of Science Festival, the world's largest science communication festival. Thousands of guests and speakers descend on pubs in hundreds of cities worldwide to introduce science in a fun, engaging, and usually pint-fuelled way.
For the latest news on Pint of Science UK, visit pintofscience.co.uk. If you're listening from elsewhere in the world, go to pintofscience.com for more information on what's happening in your country.
You can donate and help Pint of Science through these incredibly challenging times. For obvious public health reasons, we are recording remotely at the moment - but we hope to be back in the pub very soon (and very safely).

Welcome to the second episode of our very exciting three-part mini series of the Pint of Science podcast, in collaboration with bit.bio, the cell coding company.
From Californian surfer to scientist to entrepreneur, today we're talking to Dr Paul Morrill, Chief Business Officer of bit.bio, who discusses their core purpose - to develop the underlying technologies capable of producing consistent batches of every cell type in the human body. He explains that part of their mission is to be able to reliably grow human cells which will allow new drugs and compounds to be tested in context, to help scientists more accurately understand how they will perform in both healthy and diseased human bodies.
Interested in learning more on how bit.bio applies synthetic biology to generate consistent and scalable stem cell derived human cells for research and drug discovery? Listen to the talk, Coding Cells for Life: Consistent and scalable humaniPSC-derived cells for in vitro disease modelling and drug discovery.

Subscribe: Spotify | TuneIn | Stitcher | Apple
The Pint of Science podcast is a part of the Pint of Science Festival, the world's largest science communication festival. Thousands of guests and speakers descend on pubs in hundreds of cities worldwide to introduce science in a fun, engaging, and usually pint-fuelled way.
This year, Pint of Science UK is going live online! We will be going digital from the 17th-20th May in the UK with a great selection and variety of online Pint of Science events.
If you're listening from elsewhere in the world, go to pintofscience.com for more information on what's happening in your country.
You can donate and help Pint of Science through these incredibly challenging times. For obvious public health reasons, we are recording remotely at the moment - but we hope to be back in the pub very soon (and very safely).
 

Welcome to the first episode of a very exciting three-part mini series of the Pint of Science podcast, in collaboration with bit.bio, the cell coding company.
The series kicks off with Dr Mark Kotter, founder and CEO of bit.bio. Mark is an academic neurosurgeon and scientist at the University of Cambridge, or more accurately these days, a bio engineer. His research specialises in quite literally reprogramming cells and coding them to perform certain activities, by activating certain combinations of genes to switch them from one identity to another.
Mark and the bit.bio team are working to harness the power of stem cells and turn them into medicines by looking at biology in a different way – treating cells like a piece of software. They have developed a unique control system called opti-ox™, that allows them to jumpstart the potential 'programs' within a cell which tell it how to behave (and what kind of cell to be) very effectively.
Traditionally this has been a slow and small-scale process, but bit.bio's technology allows the production of these cells in quantities large enough that it could revolutionise medical treatments for everything from cancer to spinal and brain injuries.
You can find Mark on Twitter @MarkKotterInterested in precise reprogramming of cells? See the video of bit.bio’s opti-ox™ technology reprogramming stem cells into functional skeletal muscle: https://bit.bio/#opti-ox-technology.

Subscribe: Spotify | TuneIn | Stitcher | Apple
The Pint of Science podcast is a part of the Pint of Science Festival, the world's largest science communication festival. Thousands of guests and speakers descend on pubs in hundreds of cities worldwide to introduce science in a fun, engaging, and usually pint-fuelled way.
This year, Pint of Science is going live online! We will be going digital from the 17th-20th May in the UK with a great selection and variety of online Pint of Science events.
If you're listening from elsewhere in the world, go to www.pintofscience.com for more information on what's happening in your country.
You can donate and help Pint of Science through these incredibly challenging times. For obvious public health reasons, we are recording remotely at the moment - but we hope to be back in the pub very soon (and very safely).