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The Climate Biotech Podcast

Hosted by Homeworld Collective · science · EN-US · 37 episodes

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Are you fascinated by the power and potential of biotechnology? Do you want to learn about cutting-edge innovations that can address climate change? The Climate Biotech Podcast explores the most pressing problems at the intersection of climate and biology, and most importantly, how to solve them. Hosted by Homeworld co-founder Paul Reginato, the podcast features interviews with leading experts diving deep into topics like plant synthetic biology, biomanufacturing, greenhouse gas removal, and more! This podcast is powered by Homeworld Collective, a non-profit whose mission is to ignite the field of climate biotechnology.

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What is The Climate Biotech Podcast about?

Are you fascinated by the power and potential of biotechnology? Do you want to learn about cutting-edge innovations that can address climate change? The Climate Biotech Podcast explores the most pressing problems at the intersection of climate and biology, and most importantly, how to solve them.

Who hosts The Climate Biotech Podcast?

The Climate Biotech Podcast is hosted by Homeworld Collective. The show has published 37 episodes to date.

What has The Climate Biotech Podcast covered recently?

Recent episodes include "Plant Genome Editing for Sustainable Agriculture with Evan Groover" (10 August 2026, 52 minutes), "RuBisCO Engineering for Climate-Resilient Agriculture with Robbie Wilson" (16 July 2026, 57 minutes), and "Horizontal Gene Transfer and Environmental Release of Engineered Microbes with Kiara Reyes Gamas" (14 May 2026, 45 minutes).

How often does The Climate Biotech Podcast publish?

The Climate Biotech Podcast publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 51 minutes across 37 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on The Climate Biotech Podcast?

Booking probability for The Climate Biotech Podcast is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Climate Biotech Podcast requires a Pod Score of 81 or higher. The Climate Biotech Podcast's contact route on record: public web form.

Who should pitch The Climate Biotech Podcast?

The strongest fits for The Climate Biotech Podcast are Scientific Research & Development. The Climate Biotech Podcast has a science audience.

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Homeworld Collective hosts The Climate Biotech Podcast, a science show with 37 episodes published.

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    Plant Genome Editing for Sustainable Agriculture with Evan Groover

    Aug 10, 202652 min

    On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, Paul Reginato is joined by Evan Groover, a plant synthetic biologist and postdoctoral fellow in Mary Gehring's lab at the Whitehead Institute at MIT. His work spans CRISPR...

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    RuBisCO Engineering for Climate-Resilient Agriculture with Robbie Wilson

    Jul 16, 202657 min

    On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, Paul Reginato is joined by Robbie Wilson, a research scientist in the Department of Chemistry at MIT, where he leads the RuBisCO engineering effort in Matt Shoulders' lab...

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    Horizontal Gene Transfer and Environmental Release of Engineered Microbes with Kiara Reyes Gamas

    May 14, 202645 minS0

    <p>On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, Paul Reginato is joined by Kiara Reyes Gamas, environmental synthetic biologist and non-resident postdoctoral scholar at Rice University's Baker Institute. Alongside...

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    Plant Synthetic Biology for Methane Mitigation with Eli Hornstein

    Apr 22, 202651 minS0

    <p>On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, Paul is joined by Eli Hornstein, founder and CEO of Elysia Bio, a company engineering feed crops to address methane emissions from livestock. Eli came to plant biotech...

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    Farewell and Welcome: Dan Goodwin Passes the Mic to Paul Reginato

    Feb 24, 202650 minS0

    <p>In Dan Goodwin’s final episode as host, The Climate Biotech Podcast reflects on over 30 episodes of conversations with scientists, entrepreneurs, and builders at the frontier of climate biotechnology, and marks the...

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    Microbial Consortia for Industrial Decarbonization with Ginger Krieg Dosier

    Jan 27, 202647 minS0

    <p>On the most recent episode of the Climate Biotech Podcast, we are joined by Ginger Krieg Dosier, an architect-turned-biotech entrepreneur who created biocement at Biomason and is now building BIOME Consortia to...

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    The Power of Curiosity with Shuguang Zhang

    Dec 18, 20251h 18mS0

    <p>In this special episode, we sit down with Shuguang Zhang, Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Architecture in the MIT Media Lab and a mentor to countless biotech explorers. His personal story has at least one literal...

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    Reimagining Bioreactors to Solve Manufacturing Bottlenecks with Brian Heligman

    Dec 10, 20251 hourS0

    <p>Biomanufacturing doesn’t fail for lack of clever biology; it stalls at the factory gate. We sit down with Biosphere CEO Brian Heligman to unpack how a materials scientist’s journey through batteries and perovskites...

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    What Million Things are Circulating Inside You? with Jenna Hua

    Nov 12, 202552 minS0

    <p>Pollution isn’t an abstract headline; it’s inside our bodies today. We sit down with Dr. Jenna Hua to reveal how small, everyday choices expose us to hormone-disrupting chemicals. Jenna explains why single-chemical...

  • Episode #27

    Synthetic Biology Acceleration with Pam Silver

    Sep 18, 202536 minS0

    <p>Professor Pam Silver from Harvard Medical School joins us as a founding figure and legend in synthetic biology whose scientific path led from pioneering work on nuclear localization to co-developing the revolutionary...

  • Episode #26

    Textile-immobilized Enzymes for CO2 Capture with Sonja Salmon

    Sep 3, 202557 minS0

    <p>Sonja Salmon takes us on a fascinating journey through her 20-year quest to harness the power of enzymes and textiles to fight climate change. Her background in textile chemistry led to a deep understanding of...

  • Episode #25

    Optical biosensors for neural circuits and methane-eating enzymes with Loren Looger

    Aug 20, 202556 minS0

    <p>When Loren Looger walks into a room, he doesn't want recognition, he wants to make things that work. The creator of revolutionary, open-source tools that transformed how we visualize brain activity is increasingly...

  • Episode #24

    Redirecting the Microbiome: Rethinking Copper Mining with Sasha Milshteyn

    Jul 24, 202547 minS0

    <p>What happens when a structural biochemist turns his attention to mountains of rock? Dr. Sasha Milshteyn takes us on a remarkable journey from studying tiny molecular movements in proteins to revolutionizing how we...

  • Episode #23

    Transforming Minerals with Biology: Rare Earth Extraction and Carbon Storage with Buz Barstow and Esteban Gazel

    Jul 9, 20251 hourS0

    <p>Mining has essentially been the same for 5,000 years, just now with bigger shovels. Imagine if we could drastically increase mining efficiency and output for both the environment and national security. That's exactly...

  • Episode #22

    Redesigning Photosynthesis to Boost Agricultural Yield with Chris Eiben

    Jun 18, 202556 minS0

    <p>What if we could reinvent photosynthesis itself? GigaCrop founder and CEO Chris Eiben has a mission to dramatically increase crop yields by redesigning one of biology's most fundamental processes.<br/><br/>With half...

  • Episode #21

    The Global Plastics Problem and Protein Engineering with Cesar Ramirez-Sarmiento

    Jun 4, 202545 minS0

    <p>The solution to plastic waste looks different depending on where you stand in the world. While Northern Hemisphere biotech approaches to plastic recycling focus on high-temperature enzymes designed to regenerate...

  • Episode #20

    Engineering the P450 Workhorse to Secure Supply Chains and Save Endangered Trees with Maria Astolfi

    May 22, 202539 minS0

    <p>What if we could secure critical supply chains through bioengineering? What if the vaccines protecting millions worldwide didn't require harvesting 10,000 trees annually from Chilean mountains? Maria Astolfi is...

  • Episode #19

    Solving for the P in NPK Fertilization Using Enzymes with Benjamin Scott

    May 9, 202541 minS0

    <p>The global food system has a phosphorus problem that few people talk about. Unlike nitrogen, which cycles naturally through our atmosphere, phosphorus is mined from finite deposits and has no natural cycle. A massive...

  • Episode #18

    What if Therapeutic-Grade Biotech Was Used for Environmental Remediation with Pranam Chatterjee

    Apr 17, 202545 minS0

    <p>Imagine proteins engineered to seek out and bind toxic heavy metals, cleaning up contaminated sites and potentially treating metal poisoning in humans. <br/><br/>In this episode, Duke University professor and...

  • Episode #17

    New Funding and Innovation Models in Biotech: Combining Blockchain and Decentralized Coordination with Albert Anis

    Apr 3, 202551 minS0

    <p>Cryptocurrency and climate biotechnology might seem like an unusual pairing, but Albert Anis, founding steward of ValleyDAO, is showing this combination has remarkable potential. Decentralized autonomous...

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