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OMGenomics Podcast Maria Nattestad and Robert Aboukhalil
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5.0 • 4 Ratings
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A casual conversational podcast about the non-scientific parts of life in the biotech industry, this show contains conversations about topics including career paths, side hustles, and whatever is going on in the field right now. Hosted by Maria Nattestad and Robert Aboukhalil, this show includes a mix of interviews with guests doing interesting things in this space, answering listener questions, and otherwise just talking about topics we think are interesting, all while avoiding the actual science as much as possible.
We're taking the conversations we might have at a conference cocktail hour and bringing them to you on your walk, drive, or while you do dishes.
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002: You Might be an Imposter
Accepting that we're all imposters in bioinformatics, we tell stories from our own careers.
Topics:
* Robert's grad school experience in a biology program coming from a computer engineering background.
* Maria's experience interviewing at grad schools.
* "You can't just go around being like, I'm an idiot. Even if you feel like an idiot, that's just not helpful." -
001: Sabbaticals
We discuss our experiences with unofficial industry sabbaticals, aka taking time between jobs for our own projects.
Topics:
* Funemployment versus sabbatical
* Robert's 2021 sabbatical building sandbox.bio learning platform and 42basepairs genomics cloud platform
* Maria's 2017 OMGenomics entrepreneurship experience, building Circa visualization software and a YouTube channel
* Sabbatical projects helping you get the next job
* Satisfaction and meaning from personal projects
Links:
* Ask us a question!: omgenomics.com/podcast
* 42basepairs.com (Robert's genomics cloud platform)
* sandbox.bio (Robert's bioinformatics learning platform)
* omgenomics.com/circa (Maria's visualization tool)
* youtube.com/omgenomics (Maria's YouTube channel)
* OMGenomics Q&A episode featuring Robert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SfDHheyKBU&ab_channel=OMGenomics