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Bloggingheads: Invasion of the Synthetic Bacteria

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I'm late to posting this, but if you haven't seen it already here is the video of my chat with Maggie Koerth-Baker from BoingBoing for Bloggingheads Science Saturday. We talked about my allergies, endosymbiosis, and making science museums a place where both kids and adults can learn. I hope you enjoy watching as much as I enjoyed talking with Maggie, she has a really interesting perspective and is an amazing science communicator!

Christina Agapakis is a biologist, designer, and writer with an ecological and evolutionary approach to synthetic biology and biological engineering. Her PhD thesis projects at the Harvard Medical School include design of metabolic pathways in bacteria for hydrogen fuel production, personalized genetic engineering of plants, engineered photosynthetic endosymbiosis, and cheese smell-omics. With Oscillator and Icosahedron Labs she works towards envisioning the future of biological technologies and synthetic biology design.

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