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Science Lives

Peter Coward

Science

Business

Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/16d. Total Eps: 45

Science Lives provides information about lesser-known careers that rely on a science education and scientific way of thinking. Scientists working in these fields tell us about their jobs and the personal journeys that led to them. Science Lives strives to be both informative and inspirational, providing reassurance to those unsure of what their next steps are and where they will lead

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - lifeSciences
06/05/2025
#95
🇬🇧 Great Britain - lifeSciences
05/05/2025
#87
🇬🇧 Great Britain - lifeSciences
04/05/2025
#76
🇬🇧 Great Britain - lifeSciences
03/05/2025
#68
🇬🇧 Great Britain - lifeSciences
02/05/2025
#52
🇬🇧 Great Britain - lifeSciences
01/05/2025
#34
🇨🇦 Canada - lifeSciences
23/01/2025
#68
🇨🇦 Canada - lifeSciences
22/01/2025
#56

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https://www.sfn.org/
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https://adrianabankston.com/
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Rachel Kline, Science Engagement with People of Faith

Episode 45

Friday, September 2, 2022 • Duration 39:29

In this episode, I speak with Rachel Kline, Program Associate for the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Rachel entered college at MIT thinking she would be an astrophysicist, but when her physics classes didn’t resonate with her, she changed her major to neuroscience. After earning her bachelor’s, she went to graduate school in pharmacology at Boston University. After passing her Ph.D. qualifying exams, she realized that she didn’t want to pursue a career in pharmacology, so she got her master’s and left graduate school. She then worked a series of jobs in project management, and eventually realized that these positions became less fulfilling the further they were removed from science. As a result, she joined the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where in her current role she is excited to help facilitate communication between scientific and religious communities. We’ll talk about her educational and career journey, and of course find out about what her job is like.

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Vay Cao, Marketing Manager

Episode 44

Friday, July 1, 2022 • Duration 46:04

In this episode, I speak with Vay Cao, Senior Marketing Manager for Natera, a molecular diagnostics company. Interested in science at an early age, Vay studied microbiology as an undergraduate at Penn State University, and then neuroscience as a graduate student at Brown University, where she earned her PhD. But her deeper interests lay more at the intersection of art and human behavior, and so although her first job was as a field application scientist, she soon transitioned into customer support, marketing, and sales. During this time she also earned an MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology. Outside of work, Vay founded Free the PhD, which provides a variety of resources to graduate students, PhDs, and postdocs to help them find careers outside of academia. We’ll talk about all these experiences and of course find out about what her job is like.

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Free the PhD

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Janet Chao, Ocularist and Anaplastologist

Episode 35

Monday, January 24, 2022 • Duration 29:44

In this episode, I speak with Janet Chao, an ocularist and anaplastologist with a private practice in Las Vegas, Nevada. Anaplastologists provide custom, non-weight-bearing prostheses for patients who have suffered loss of anatomy due to injury, disease, or congenital origin, and ocularists deal specifically with the fitting and fabrication of artificial eyes. In college, Janet majored in bioengineering and minored in chemistry, but struggled to see where these would take her professionally, and so began to rethink the possibility of including her passion for arts and crafts into her work. This led her to obtain a certificate in science illustration and do a series of internships before enrolling in the Master of Science program in Biomedical Visualization at the University of Illinois, Chicago. After graduating, she completed a 5 year apprenticeship before becoming board certified in both ocularistry and anaplastology, and going into business for herself. We’ll talk about all these experiences and of course find out about what her job is like.

Resources mentioned in this episode:
International Anaplastology Association (IAA)
American Society of Ocularists (ASO)

Please note that although contents of the interview are accurate at the time of the recording, educational pathways in ocularistry and anaplastology are constantly evolving. In fact, formal education opportunities in the field of clinical anaplastology may soon be available, for example at Johns Hopkins University

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Melanie Stegman, Biochemist and Video Game Developer

Episode 34

Monday, January 10, 2022 • Duration 39:59

In this episode, I speak with Melanie Stegman, Assistant Professor at the Center for Advanced Entertainment and Learning Technology at Harrisburg University in Pennsylvania. Melanie was interested in biochemistry from an early age, and worked in biochemistry labs while earning an BA in political science. After college, she started writing a story about Amy the Amylase, intending to make molecular cell biology less scary for everyone. To get the biochemistry right in her stories, Melanie pursued a PhD in Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry, and Microbiology from the University of Cincinnati. During her postdoctoral fellowship at Weill Cornell Medical College, Melanie found out about an educational video game being made by a think tank in Washington, DC. Melanie then moved to DC, won a grant to study the game, and based on her research, designed and produced a new game called Immune Defense. After 5 years of trying to get a game studio off the ground, Melanie is now a professor of interactive media and science communication. She creates games about chemistry and teaches game development, while still dabbling in indie game development.

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Gaëlle Batot, Project Manager

Episode 32

Monday, December 13, 2021 • Duration 32:31

In this episode, I speak with Gaëlle Batot, Project Manager for ARUP Laboratories, a national clinical diagnostic reference laboratory. Initially planning on going to medical school in her native France, Gaëlle didn't pass the entrance examination and so instead trained to become a laboratory technician. This lead her to graduate school in Grenoble, where she earned a PhD in structural biology, followed by postdoctoral fellowships in the United States. While volunteering for the postdoc associations at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Utah, she discovered that she particularly enjoyed the aspects of her work typically associated with project management, and this led her to learn more about engaging and motivating teams. Additional formal project management training helped prepare her for her current position at ARUP. We’ll talk about all these experiences and of course find out about what her job is like.

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Mark Beaman, Winemaker

Episode 31

Monday, November 29, 2021 • Duration 43:18

In this episode, I speak with Mark Beaman, Winemaker for Sebastiani Vineyards & Winery in Sonoma, California. After growing up on a farm in rural Washington, Mark attended Whitman College, where he focused on geology because it combined his love of science, being outdoors, and being physically active. After earning a BA in geology-environmental studies, Mark spent two years in Africa as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Needing work after returning home, he took a job as lab technician at a winery in Washington, which led to other jobs in wineries in California and Hawaii. We’ll talk about all these experiences and of course find out what his job is like.

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Madison Rice, Medical Illustrator

Episode 30

Wednesday, November 10, 2021 • Duration 28:03

In this episode, I speak with Madison Rice, Medical Illustrator at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Madison was life science major in college, earning a BS in microbiology from Mississippi State University. Building on her long-time interest in art, in her junior year she also began taking art classes to satisfy a minor in visual art. She then completed a two-year master’s program in Biomedical Visualization at the University of Illinois, Chicago before beginning her current job as a medical illustrator.

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Glenn Watson, Medical Science Liaison

Episode 29

Thursday, September 30, 2021 • Duration 35:27

In this episode, I speak with Glenn Watson, Medical Science Liaison at LivaNova, a medical device company. Glenn was a Psychology and Neuroscience double major at the University of Delaware, and earned his PhD in neuroscience from Pennsylvania State University. During graduate school, he had an internship in the Technology Transfer Office, and as a postdoc at Duke University had a fellowship in the Office of Licensing and Ventures. While looking into other non-academic career options, he came across a job posting for a Medical Science Liaison, and knew the position was for him. We’ll talk about all these experiences, and of course find out what job is like

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Jayla King, Undergraduate Student

Episode 28

Tuesday, September 14, 2021 • Duration 33:14

This episode breaks from the usual format in that I will be interviewing someone who has not yet begun their career as a scientist. My guest today is Jayla King, a senior at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. When she graduates in the spring, Jayla will be the first person in her family to have earned a four-year degree. In high school, Jayla focused on engineering, including completing college-level coursework, and presumed she would continue studying engineering in college. However, once there, she decided to study biology to ensure her scholarship would cover all four years of school. In this episode, we’ll talk about her education, what she has learned through various internships, and how she sees her future unfolding. In addition, she’ll tell us about a podcast she co-produces at Hendrix called Scientists for Social Justice, where she and her professor discuss issues of social justice in the higher education system, especially as they relate to the scientific disciplines.

Scientists for Social Justice website: https://anchor.fm/sfsj
Hendrix College Odyssey Program: https://www.hendrix.edu/odyssey/

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