In this episode, I converse with Pranam Chatterjee, the Carlos M. Varsavsky Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School in the group of the legendary Prof. George Church. He recently completed his Ph.D at the MIT Media Lab with Joseph Jacobson, one of the inventors of the Kindle, and completed his undergrad at MIT double majoring in Computer Science and Molecular Biology after transferring there from Dartmouth where he was studying Religion. 

Pranam is currently developing state-of-the-art algorithms and high-throughput experimental screens to interrogate germ cell development whilst utilising the genome-editing tool, CRISPR. We indulge in a fantastically riveting conversation in his quest to study life spiritually and scientifically, the importance of listening to folks on the other side of the aisle, the essential nature of interdisciplinarity and collaboration in academia, how science is built on the shoulder of graduate students and other researchers toiling away without recognition, combating SARS-CoV-2 on the frontlines, the importance of diversity and inclusion, and many more things.