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Talk BIO to Me

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Artificial Intelligence
Synbiobeta
Biotechnology
Cradle
Quorum Earth
Lanzatech
Circular Economy
Machine Learning
Protein Design
DNA
Fungi
Biopesticides
Invasive Species
Spores
Carbon Dioxide
Ethanol
Drug Development

What happens when you mix a disco-dancin' podcaster with some of the brightest minds in biotech? You get Talk BIO to Me. Recorded live at SynBioBeta, this interview series takes you inside the world of synthetic biology through conversations with pioneering scientists, founders, investors, and AI innovators building the future of life.

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(Recently featured in The New York Times.) What happens when you train an AI model not on the internet, but on millions of genomes? Samuel King, a PhD candidate at Stanford, working at the intersection of AI and bioengineering, joins host Flo Lumsden... more

This one's a joyride. Flo catches Adrian Woolfson, CEO and co-founder of Genyro, and his co-founder Kaihang Wang at SynBioBeta for a conversation that starts with genome writing and ends somewhere between Doctor Who and a custom unicorn order form. A... more

What happens when a renowned wet lab biologist and Google brain machine learning engineers get together to work on biotech? You get Cradle! In this episode, co-founder Elise de Reus joins host Flo Lumsden to break down how Cradle turns protein design... more

Join host Flo Lumsden as she sits down with John Cumbers, CEO and founder of SynBioBeta, at the world's largest synthetic biology conference this past May. In this conversation, John shares how AI is fundamentally reshaping the field of biology — fro... more

For years, AI has helped scientists organize data and streamline research, but it's now beginning to tackle biology's toughest scientific challenges. In this episode, Flo sits down with Nicholas, Head of AI at Benchling, to discuss why the physical w... more

Ever wonder what separates a billion-dollar TechBio unicorn from a well-funded experiment? Krish Ramadurai of AIX Ventures does—and he's backed some of the coolest ones. We dive into why understanding the actual science matters, why mice are terrible... more

In this episode, Flo sits down with Dr. Michael Köpke, Chief Innovation Officer at LanzaTech, to explore how specialized microbes are literally eating industrial emissions and transforming them into valuable products (Michael's cool Jacket!). From su... more

Meet Chris Kantrowitz, founder of Quorum Earth, who's literally making fungal spores that eat bugs—and he's weirdly charming about it. In this first episode of Talk Bio to Me, Chris breaks down how specialized fungal spores are taking on invasive spe... more

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Elise de Reus
Co-founder and head of customer success at Cradle
Cradle
Episode: Inside Cradle: How AI Is Accelerating Scientific Discovery with Elise de Reus
John Cumbers
CEO and founder of SynBioBeta
SynBioBeta
Episode: AI Is About to Redesign Life Itself: SynBioBeta's John Cumbers Explains
Nicholas Larus-Stone
Head of AI at Benchling
Benchling
Episode: Can AI Debug Biology? Nicholas Larus-Stone, AI @ Benchling
Krish Ramadurai
Lead healthcare scientist partner at AIX Ventures
AIX Ventures
Episode: Finding the Next TechBio Unicorn with Krish Ramadurai, AIX Ventures
Michael Köpke
Chief Innovation Officer at LanzaTech
LanzaTech
Episode: From Pollution to Designer Jacket? It's in the Microbe.
Chris Kantrowitz
Founder of Quorum Earth, biotech entrepreneur
Quorum Earth
Episode: Who Knew Spores were so Metal?! Chris Kantrowitz, Quorum Earth

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Flo Lumsden
Host of Talk BIO to Me

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Can AI Debug Biology? Nicholas Larus-Stone, AI @ Benchling
Q: What has been your path into AI for bench science, and what did you bring to Benchling?
Coming from a background in computational biology and drug discovery software, I helped integrate AI into platforms and built AI agents to process data, structure it, and assist researchers across workflows, culminating in an acquisition to bring these concepts into Benchling's platform.
Can AI Debug Biology? Nicholas Larus-Stone, AI @ Benchling
Q: What are you most excited about in terms of acceleration in science from AI?
AI is moving beyond organizing data and writing reports to actively aiding in experimental design, debugging, and powering wet-lab workflows, which could shorten development timelines and improve reproducibility.
Finding the Next TechBio Unicorn with Krish Ramadurai, AIX Ventures
Q: Do you coach or guide your portfolio companies, and what are the biggest challenges you see?
Krish describes board-level governance and the importance of multidisciplinary teams, highlighting the difficulty of aligning AI/biotech talent, navigating cofounder dynamics, and ensuring efficiency from discovery to clinical endpoints.
Finding the Next TechBio Unicorn with Krish Ramadurai, AIX Ventures
Q: What areas of innovation are you most excited about in biotech and investing?
He discusses treating biology as a coding problem, AI-native platforms, and the importance of aligning AI with wet-lab biology to shorten development timelines, while noting the need for practical drug development outcomes over flashy tech.
Finding the Next TechBio Unicorn with Krish Ramadurai, AIX Ventures
Q: First, could you introduce yourself and what you do?
Krish introduces himself as a lead healthcare scientist partner at AIX Ventures and explains his trajectory from academia and think tanks to venture investment, emphasizing how his scientific rigor informs his funding decisions.

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What is Talk BIO to Me about and what kind of topics does it cover?

Tech-forward conversations at the intersection of biology, AI, and entrepreneurship are the core of these episodes. Highlights include practical applications of machine learning to wet-lab biology, AI-enabled protein design, and the rapid evolution of synthetic biology communities. Guests range from startup founders and venture investors to senior researchers at leading biotech platforms, sharing real-world deployments, governance considerations, and the economics of translating AI-driven insights into therapies, diagnostics, and industrial biotech solutions. Live-recorded at a major industry gathering, the show emphasizes cross-disciplinary collaboration, hands-on workflows, and the evolving toolbox—from ML-native workflows to autonomous l... more

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3. Nicholas Larus-Stone
4. Krish Ramadurai
5. Michael Köpke
6. Chris Kantrowitz

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