Podcasts

• 👨‍🔬 Why is Plasmidsaurus sequencing so cheap?

  We visit Plasmidsaurus and talk about why they are offering sequencing for so cheap, what surprises came up when their customers first got whole plasmid sequencing, and how sequencers are like bread machines.
  February 2026 • OMGenomics Podcast

• 🤔 AI in biology: distinguishing hype from reality

  We talk about the promise and the perils of AI and dive into a particular case where AI was used to predict enzyme function and gave results that looked really promising, but were not quite right.
  August 2025 • OMGenomics Podcast

• 👩‍🔬 Leaving academia is not a failure, it's a choice, with Ashley Moses

  We talked about what scientists do with their lives after their PhD. Ashley is a PhD student herself who created PhDPaths, a resource with hundreds of interviews with PhD graduates about their career path outside academia
  June 2025 • OMGenomics Podcast

• 📝 Rewriting software is bad... but it might work for us

  We discuss software rewrites, why they're nearly always a bad idea, and the one situation where they're justified anyway
  July 2024 • OMGenomics Podcast

• 🧑‍💻 Academic software

  We discuss our experiences maintaining bioinformatics tools and the systemic issues that influence the quality of academic software
  April 2024 • OMGenomics Podcast

• 💻 WebAssembly in bioinformatics

  I was interviewed by The Changelog about all things WebAssembly, bringing bioinformatics tools to the web, and server-side WebAssembly
  December 2023 • The Changelog Interviews

• 🧐 So good they can't ignore you

  How the book So good they can't ignore you by Cal Newport relates to bioinformatics
  September 2023 • OMGenomics Podcast

• 🧬 Running biotech startups differently with Kaja Wasik

  Our guest Kaja Wasik shares her journey in the biotech startup industry
  August 2023 • OMGenomics Podcast

• 🧑‍💻 Consulting with Nils Homer

  We interview Nils Homer, the co-founder of Fulcrum Genomics, a thriving bioinformatics consulting business
  June 2023 • OMGenomics Podcast

• 🧑‍🎓 The PhD Question with Steve Osazuwa

  Our guest Steve Osazuwa helps us answer the PhD question, namely, should you do one?
  May 2023 • OMGenomics Podcast

• 📆 Job hopping

  We discuss whether people should stay much more than 1 year per company to avoid being judged by future employers
  April 2023 • OMGenomics Podcast

• 🙈 You might be an imposter

  Accepting that we're all imposters in bioinformatics, we tell stories from our own careers
  March 2023 • OMGenomics Podcast

• 🧑‍💻 Sabbaticals

  Our experiences with sabbaticals in industry
  February 2023 • OMGenomics Podcast