Welcome to molpigs, the Molecular Programming Interest Group! molpigs is a group aimed at PhD students and early career researchers within the fields of Molecular Programming, DNA Computing, and other related specialties. We run most of our events in the form of podcasts, which you can find right here!
Join us this week for an extremely interesting conversation with Kent Kemmish, the founder and chief exorcist (yes, exorcist) officer of Molecular Reality, and the creator of the new, and world’s fir…
What do ant colonies have to do with molecular programming? In this podcast, we spoke with Namita Sarraf, a graduate student at Caltech in Lulu Qian’s group.
We discuss her research, which revolves …
Kate Adamala is a biochemist building synthetic cells at the University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences. Her research aims at understanding chemical principles of biology, using artificia…
In the third episode of our ‘Lab Pigs’ series, which highlights the research and journeys of early career researchers in our field, we talked with Erik Poppleton, of the Biodesign Institute at Arizon…
In this episode we talked with Yuan-Jyue Chen, of Microsoft Research and the University of Washington, on some of his research into DNA Data Storage. Yuan focussed on two topics: random access of dat…
In the second episode of our 'Lab Pigs' series, which highlights the research and journeys of early career researchers in our field, we talked with Josie Kishi. Josie was instrumental in developing t…
Join us this week for a long and interesting conversation with Tom Ouldridge of Imperial College London on Maxwell’s demon, Szilard’s engine, what people get wrong about thermodynamics and informatio…
Join us for the first of our ‘Lab Pigs’ series, in which we talk with early career researchers on their research and journey within our field. In this episode, we chatted with Dominic Scalise. We tal…
Following on from Brenda's fantastic tutorial, we chatted with her to get answers to many questions, find out more about her lab's work, and get her thoughts on the future direction of this approach…
Join us for the first of our 'Meet the Molecular Programmer' series, in which we talk with seasoned academics in our field about their journey and life experiences. In this episode, we chatted with P…