Aalto-Helsinki Podcast Aalto-Helsinki iGEM 2022

Zsófia invites Sally Chesnut, leader of the 2021 Team, to join her and recount how last year's project was born, the most rewarding and most challenging parts of the iGEM experience, and any words of wisdom for the competition (and life in general!). 

In this episode, drylab team member Hanna and wetlab team member Zsófia dive into this year’s research project, sharing the ideation process, key scientific concepts and goals of our 2022 focus: biofilm and chronic wounds.

Hosted by Lilith

Season 2 of the Aalto-Helsinki Podcast is here! Get to know our new team leaders and hear about our first few months on our iGEM journey.

Hosted by Zsófia and Mari

Have you ever struggled with knowing what you want to do with your studies? Not all career paths are the same, and work opportunities can sometimes be found through surprising pathways. In our final episode of the summer, our guest from ThermoFisher, Petri Kouvonen, shares his career path and how proteomics offers a huge potential to discovering new things in science and advancing therapeutics.



Hosted by Emma and Vilma. 

Sleep is something that we all do but have you ever considered its importance? Sleep is now considered one of the main pillars of good health and people are becoming more aware of it. In this week's episode Henna-Kaisa Wigren, a sleep researcher, tells you more about sleep, its regulation, and its importance to our health. Listen to this week's episode if you don't want to feel guilty about sleeping in again! 

Hosted by Sof and Vilma. 

Most of us have some kind of understanding about science, but might not really stop to consider what science actually is. Why do some scientists say contradicting things? Why is their opinion always changing? We tackle these kinds of questions and talk about science communication and education with Harri Montonen from Science Center Heureka.

Hosted by Iiris and Anniina