A Titus Talks Podcast Conversation with Kendra Royston — We are not betting individuals, but if we were, we bet that you have never met an intelligent, humble, creative, and curious individual with the voice of a Madam and whose slogan is “it’s okay to feel stupid, but don’t you dare stay that way.” To conclude Season 2 of Titus Talks, we are delighted to share our conversation with researcher, blogger, podcaster, and author, Kendra Royston.

Accelerating collaboration across the bioeconomy ecosystem by creating a digital talent ecosystem — One of my own personal philosophies is that for science to ever leave the lab and have a tangible impact in the world, business is the vehicle for that change. There are several crucial facets to launching a successful business. Beyond creating value for a target consumer, a founding team needs compelling marketing, operational and delivery excellence, consistent sales, and sound financial management. If scientific founders do not feel like they have the skillsets to tackle all of these elements…

A Titus Talks Podcast Conversation with Anna Puglisi — What do the hallmarks of competing in Wastewater Olympics, playing bass in an orchestra, contributing to a tactical military task force, and becoming an expert in China S&T Policy have in common? Anna has lived them all. Anna Puglisi is the Director of Biotechnology Programs and Senior Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). Previously she served as the National Counterintelligence Officer for East Asia, advising senior U.S. and foreign government officials at the highest levels, academia, and the private sector on counterintelligence (CI)…

A Titus Talks Podcast Conversation with Schuyler Moore — Driving substantive change socially, economically, and politically is grounded in a foundation of national security. Today, we are excited to introduce Schuyler Moore whose passion for women’s education led her to work at an all-girls school in Afghanistan and build a career circling the problem of national security from different perspectives.

A Landscape Analysis of US Federal Investments Across the Bioeconomy — The US Bioeconomy is on track to contribute more than $4 trillion to the global economy over the course of the next decade It is certainly a hope-filled assessment about the potential of the bioeconomy to bring positive, international, economic growth. But in turning our attention to the state of our own nation, the question becomes:

A Titus Talks Podcast Conversation with John Younger — Our favorite people are existential conversationalists that make the minutes fly by, that love data-driven insights, and who are mission-driven to make the world a better place. Today, we get to introduce you to John Younger, a physician-scientist by training, whose experiential stories about Sherlock Holmes, the meaning of medicine, and having more than one career in a lifetime, certainly affirm why Kathryn wanted to stay in contact after meeting him as an intern almost three years…

A Titus Talks Podcast Conversation with Andrew Hessel — If you want to talk about crafting a career that emulates a drunken walk through science and explore the potential of backing up your biology like we back up computers for a reboot in the future, it’s time to meet Andrew. On this episode of Titus Talks, we are super excited to sit down again with Andrew Hessel. Andrew is the co-founder and past-president of Humane Genomics — which engineers synthetic viruses to target cancer cells- and co-executive director of the Genome Project-write (GPW), an international research and development effort that…

A Titus Talks Podcast conversation with Brandi Cantarel — Very few of us can say that our careers span continents, species, and millennia but Brandi Cantarel, Associate Director of Bioinformatics at Colossal Biosciences, can. For over 15 years, Brandi has been involved in projects that utilize sequence technology to understand human health, often at the forefront of an emerging field of technology. She leads bioinformatics development of next-generation sequence (NGS) data, including genomics, transcriptomics, and metagenomics in rare/complex genetic diseases, immunology, infectious disease, and…

A Titus Talks Podcast conversation with Genefer Baxter and Marco Locatelli — If you don’t have anyone in your life challenging you to critically think about what real trust and real transparency look like when dealing with biotechnology that is so intimate and so integral to what makes us human, then it’s time to meet our favorite art entrepreneurs, Gen and Marco. On this episode of Titus Talks, we are delighted to sit down with Genefer Baxter and Marco Locatelli. Genefer and Marco are Berlin-based artists, designers, and facilitators at Aula Future, an interdisciplinary research and STEAM program. Before founding Aula Future alongside Marco Locatelli, Gen worked with new media, curating immersive…