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.
Cattle Disease
18 mins; February 28, 2026
The forgotten Kingdom: Inside the World of Fungi
38 mins; January 30, 2026
Fertility: Research & Art
51 mins; November 08, 2025
AI in healthcare
25 mins; September 03, 2025
Signs of life: detecting biosignals from fossil
22 mins; July 18, 2025
Cell clocks: the circadian rhythm of the cells
31 mins; June 18, 2025
Fossil detective: piecing together the neurobiology of fossil mammals
33 mins; May 27, 2025
Science and Policy with Prof. Andrew Millar
38 mins; April 29, 2025
Becoming your own scientist
51 mins; March 27, 2025
Entrepreneurship Series: ConceptionX, UK’s leading PhD deep-tech venture programme
27 mins; February 21, 2025
Conservation genetics with Dr Alex Ball
36 mins; January 22, 2025
Unstable fungal resistance
51 mins; November 30, 2024
Combining Art & Science: How and Why
59 mins; October 29, 2024
Entrepreneurship series: E.V.A Biosystems ft. Dr. Alex Speakman
26 mins; September 24, 2024
Aging sheep: long-term population studies in St Kilda
52 mins; July 03, 2024
AMR through time with Katerina Guschanski
43 mins; June 18, 2024
Primate Evolution with Dr Katerina Guschanski
53 mins; May 08, 2024
The world of editing
45 mins; March 14, 2024
Entrepreneurship series: NucBarcoder- Barcoding DNA to identify various species ft. Dr. Wu Huang
32 mins; February 14, 2024
Science communication and Education
48 mins; January 19, 2024
The ins and outs of scientific publishing
42 mins; December 11, 2023
Let’s chat, meet Prof. Thorunn Helgason, new head of Biology School at the University of Edinburgh
30 mins; November 06, 2023
Plant fossils and the story they tell
35 mins; October 04, 2023
Introduction to RNA Therapies with Prof Amy Buck
21 mins; September 05, 2023
Plastic: From Bin to Bake
39 mins; July 28, 2023
OGI Bio: An Automated Bioreactor Start-Up
31 mins; June 27, 2023
Circadian Rhythms with Dr Gerben van Ooijen
19 mins; May 30, 2023
Green Bioactives: A biomanufacturing spin-out company
24 mins; May 06, 2023
Campus Conservation with Dr Sophie Haupt
21 mins; March 28, 2023
PhD Advice from the New Director of Grad School
29 mins; February 28, 2023
PhD Advice from postgraduate administrators Karen and Mairead
23 mins; January 31, 2023
Trash to Treasure with Dr Stephen Wallace
51 mins; December 27, 2022
The Origins of Antimicrobial Resistance
25 mins; November 29, 2022
iGEM2022 Petalution - How to clean our water using synthetic biology
28 mins; October 11, 2022
Beetlejuices – How beetles take care of their offspring
30 mins; September 27, 2022
Academia Through Time
50 mins; August 30, 2022
Spore Wars - Microbial Biotechnology in Space with Dr Rosa Santomartino
38 mins; July 27, 2022
Biology Without the Cells with Dr Nadanai Laohakunakorn
36 mins; June 28, 2022
Psychoacoustic explorers: turning proteins into sounds with Edward Martin
40 mins; May 31, 2022
PhD Advice from recent PhD grad Dr Lizzie Wadsworth
25 mins; April 26, 2022
COP26 Debrief: Food Security with Dr Annis Richardson
23 mins; March 29, 2022
Looking Back on COP26: Sustainable Biotechnology with Professor Louise Horsfall
26 mins; March 15, 2022
PhD Advice from Dr Harriet Harris, the University Chaplain
31 mins; February 25, 2022
Living the PhD Life
38 mins; February 02, 2022
Crop improvement: getting inspiration from algae
18 mins; December 31, 2021
Cell differentiation: When DNA met Sall4
31 mins; November 01, 2021
Scotland's BioTech Stories: Engineered proteins in action
29 mins; September 17, 2021
Scotland's BioTech Stories: CryoEM - the cutting edge of structural biology with Dr. Marcus Wilson
41 mins; August 13, 2021
Water 'bout cyanobacteria?: Producing high value products using sunlight ft. Anton Puzorjov
29 mins; July 20, 2021
Evergreen: How to block viral transmission ft. Prof. Neil Mabbott
15 mins; June 15, 2021
COVID19: How to mass produce a vaccine ft. Dr Prerna Vohra
10 mins; June 08, 2021
Viral Variants: How to track and tackle COVID variants ft. Dr Thomas Williams
15 mins; June 01, 2021
Eureka! How To Design A Vaccine ft. Dr Christine Tait-Burkard
16 mins; May 25, 2021
Darwin Tree of Life: Sequencing the Biome of the Great Britain Ft. Prof. Mark Blaxter & Dr. Alex Twyford
58 mins; May 19, 2021
How Synthetic Microorganisms can Biofacture High Value Products ft. Dr. Tessa Moses
44 mins; April 23, 2021
Detecting Parasitic Infections in Cows by Small RNA (Trypanosomiasis) with Dr Maria Contreras-Garcia
36 mins; March 25, 2021
How Bacteria Produce Eco Nylon (BIOFACTURING). Ft. PhD Student Jack Suitor
34 mins; February 26, 2021
Carbon Dynamics and Climate Change in the Dry Tropics with Associate Professor Kyle Dexter
33 mins; January 20, 2021
All Hands on Deck: Three Epidemiology PhD Students Who Contributed to COVID-19 Research in Edinburgh
56 mins; December 18, 2020
Women in Science: Featuring Edinburgh academics Prof. Lynne Regan and Prof. Meriem El Karoui
69 hours 42 mins; November 13, 2020
Black in Botany: A Discussion with Botany PhD Student Jade Bleau
38 mins; October 16, 2020
Crops, Robots and Rolling Pins: Building Crop Resistance with PhD Student and Activist Tara Wight
25 mins; August 07, 2020
Novel Gene Expression in Yeast, and a Successful Lifelong Research Career with Retiring Professor Jean Beggs
29 mins; April 03, 2020
How to Characterize the Structure of Lamin-A Proteins in Cells with Dr Alex Makarov
32 mins; February 18, 2020
Begonia Biodiversity and Field Trips in South-East Asia with Dr Mark Hughes
27 mins; December 19, 2019
The 500 Year Astrobiology Experiment with Dr Toby Samuels from the UK Centre for Astrobiology
35 mins; August 22, 2019
Smartphone Biosensors and SynBio with Dr Baojun Wang and Dr Xinyi Wan
29 mins; July 04, 2019
Chicken Bioreactor: Engineered Chickens Which Produce Human Proteins with Dr Lissa Herron
