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The Microscopists

The Microscopists is a podcast from Bitesize Bio and ZEISS Microscopy that takes you into revealing, entertaining, and personal meetings with the great microscopists of our time. Your host is Dr Peter O’Toole. Peter will help you understand what drives great, successful scientists, what really inspires them and what they enjoy most in life.

This set of candid, fun, and engaging interviews serves not only to help inspire upcoming scientists but to show how career tracks and work-life balance are managed by some of the best. Not only are they great at work, but they have some amazing stories to tell about their lives outside science.

Browse all The Microscopists episodes here:
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Science Life Sciences
Update frequency
every 13 days
Average duration
65 minutes
Episodes
85
Years Active
2020 - 2025
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Eija Jokitalo (University of Helsinki)

Eija Jokitalo (University of Helsinki)

#45 — Eija Jokitalo is the Director of the Electron Microscopy Unit at the University of Helsinki, whose work focuses on understanding organelle structure during cell division. We chat about why she …

01:02:09  |   Fri 13 May 2022
Gail McConnell (University of Strathclyde)

Gail McConnell (University of Strathclyde)

#44 — Gail McConnell, Professor of Biophotonics at the University of Strathclyde chats to Peter O'Toole about her groundbreaking work developing new imaging techniques on the Mesolens, discusses her …

01:07:35  |   Fri 29 Apr 2022
Elizabeth Villa (UC San Diego)

Elizabeth Villa (UC San Diego)

#43 — Elizabeth Villa, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at UC San Diego talks to Peter O'Toole about the benefits of collaborative projects, the advantages and disadvantages of new micr…

01:03:08  |   Fri 15 Apr 2022
Claire Brown (McGill University)

Claire Brown (McGill University)

#42 — Claire Brown, Associate Professor & Director of the Advanced BioImaging Facility at McGill University, talks to Peter O'Toole about the importance of taking care of your staff, how she successf…

01:04:49  |   Fri 01 Apr 2022
Ralf Jungmann (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry and LMU Munich)

Ralf Jungmann (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry and LMU Munich)

#41 — Ralf Jungmann, Professor and group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry and LMU Munich joins Peter O'Toole in this episode of The Microscopists to discuss the most frightening tim…

01:03:10  |   Fri 18 Mar 2022
Brad Amos (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

Brad Amos (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

#40 — Brad Amos, Emeritus Scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, joins Peter O’Toole in this episode of The Microscopists to discuss his varied career, from zoologist to confocal micro…

01:11:33  |   Fri 04 Mar 2022
Teng-Leong Chew (HHMI Janelia Research Campus)

Teng-Leong Chew (HHMI Janelia Research Campus)

#39 — Ever wondered just what it’s like working at the HHMI Janelia Research Campus? Teng-Leong Chew, Director of the Advanced Imaging Center at Janelia, joins Peter O’Toole for episode #39 of The Mi…

00:59:45  |   Fri 18 Feb 2022
W. E. Moerner (Stanford University)

W. E. Moerner (Stanford University)

#38 — W. E. Moerner of Stanford University is a pioneer in the field of super-resolution imaging for cell biology. Tune in as W. E. joins Peter O’Toole and discover more about the work that led to W.…

01:00:45  |   Fri 04 Feb 2022
Holly L. Aaron (UC Berkeley)

Holly L. Aaron (UC Berkeley)

#37 — Peter O’Toole’s guest for episode #37 of The Microscopists is Holly L. Aaron, Director of the CRL Molecular Imaging Center at the University of California Berkeley. Tune in to this candid episo…

01:05:08  |   Fri 21 Jan 2022
Paul Nurse (The Francis Crick Institute)

Paul Nurse (The Francis Crick Institute)

#36 — Today's guest on The Microscopists is Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse, Chief Executive and Director of The Francis Crick Institute in London. Paul's early career used microscopic screening to ide…

00:53:47  |   Fri 17 Dec 2021
Sir Jeremy Farrar (Wellcome Trust)

Sir Jeremy Farrar (Wellcome Trust)

#35 — You’re in for a treat in this episode of The Microscopists as we’re joined by Sir Jeremy Farrar, Director of Wellcome. We learn more about Jeremy’s work as an infectious diseases specialist, hi…

01:07:35  |   Fri 03 Dec 2021
Michelle Itano (UNC)

Michelle Itano (UNC)

#34 — Michelle S. Itano is the Director of the Neuroscience Center Microscopy Core at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. In this episode of The Microscopists, cellular biophysicist Michell…

01:10:05  |   Fri 19 Nov 2021
Mark Ellisman (UCSD)

Mark Ellisman (UCSD)

#33 — Mark Ellisman, Director of the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR) at UCSD, is a leader in the development of 3D light and electron microscopy and its applications for s…

01:05:21  |   Fri 05 Nov 2021
Martin Chalfie (Columbia University)

Martin Chalfie (Columbia University)

#32 — Today’s guest on The Microscopists is none other than Martin Chalfie of Columbia University.

In this inspiring episode, we discover more about the work on the discovery and development of GFP t…

01:14:50  |   Fri 22 Oct 2021
Joerg Bewersdorf (Yale University)

Joerg Bewersdorf (Yale University)

#31 — Joerg Bewersdorf is a leader in developing fluorescence microscopy techniques for biomedical research, such as Pan-Expansion microscopy.

In today’s entertaining episode of The Microscopists, we…

01:06:19  |   Fri 08 Oct 2021
Prisca Liberali (FMI)

Prisca Liberali (FMI)

#30 — Prisca Liberali of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) is a pioneer in the field of cellular self-organization and collective behaviors during developmental and regen…

01:10:39  |   Fri 24 Sep 2021
Jan Ellenberg (EMBL)

Jan Ellenberg (EMBL)

#29 — On this week’s episode of The Microscopists, we chat to Jan Ellenberg, Head of Cell Biology & Biophysics Unit at EMBL, Heidelberg. Jan’s current pioneering work focuses on cell division and nuc…

01:04:57  |   Fri 10 Sep 2021
Markus Sauer (University of Würzburg)

Markus Sauer (University of Würzburg)

#28 — Markus Sauer of the University of Würzburg is a super-resolution microscopist and one of the pioneers behind dSTORM (direct stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy). In the latest episode …

01:01:46  |   Fri 27 Aug 2021
Judith Klumperman (UMC Utrecht)

Judith Klumperman (UMC Utrecht)

#27 — Judith Klumperman of the University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht is one of the leaders in the field of electron microscopy and her work has contributed hugely to our understanding of diseases o…

01:03:26  |   Fri 13 Aug 2021
Elizabeth M. C. Hillman (Columbia University)

Elizabeth M. C. Hillman (Columbia University)

#26 — You may know Elizabeth M. C. Hillman (Columbia University) as the pioneer behind SCAPE microscopy, but in episode #26 of The Microscopists, we’ll learn more about her early inspirations, how sh…

01:13:41  |   Fri 30 Jul 2021
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