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STEMcast Episode 41 | "From Controller to Contributor": How gaming is contributing to cutting-edge research with Profs. Jerome Waldispuhl and Attila Szantner
Jun 2, 2026
1h 06m 00s
STEMcast Episode 40 | “We are all made of stardust”: Learning about Early Planetary Formation with Prof. Paola Pinilla
May 13, 2026
42m 18s
STEMcast Episode 39 | “Curiosity is Edgework”: Channeling our Curiosity in Research with Profs. Dani Basset and Perry Zurn
Jan 9, 2026
46m 37s
Episode 38 | Education, Math and Drag! Exploring How Queer Identity and STEM Intersect with Kyne Santos
Oct 5, 2025
25m 50s
STEMcast Episode 37 | Empowering Diverse Voices in STEM - a STEMcast Special
Oct 2, 2025
52m 42s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/2/26 | ![]() STEMcast Episode 41 | "From Controller to Contributor": How gaming is contributing to cutting-edge research with Profs. Jerome Waldispuhl and Attila Szantner✨ | gamingscientific research+3 | Jerome WaldispuhlAttila Szantner | McGillMassively Multiplayer Online Science+2 | — | video gamesscientific discovery+5 | — | 1h 06m 00s | |
| 5/13/26 | ![]() STEMcast Episode 40 | “We are all made of stardust”: Learning about Early Planetary Formation with Prof. Paola Pinilla✨ | early planetary formationprotoplanetary discs+3 | Prof. Paola Pinilla | University College London | BogotáColumbia | planetary formationprotoplanetary discs+3 | — | 42m 18s | |
| 1/9/26 | ![]() STEMcast Episode 39 | “Curiosity is Edgework”: Channeling our Curiosity in Research with Profs. Dani Basset and Perry Zurn✨ | curiosityresearch+4 | Dani BassetPerry Zurn | American UniversityUniversity of Pennsylvania+1 | — | curiosityresearch careers+4 | — | 46m 37s | |
| 10/5/25 | ![]() Episode 38 | Education, Math and Drag! Exploring How Queer Identity and STEM Intersect with Kyne Santos✨ | queer identitySTEM+4 | Kyne Santos | — | — | queer STEMmath education+5 | — | 25m 50s | |
| 10/2/25 | ![]() STEMcast Episode 37 | Empowering Diverse Voices in STEM - a STEMcast Special✨ | DiversityEquity+4 | Aflah HanafiahMel Rees+1 | STEMcast | — | DiversityEquity+8 | — | 52m 42s | |
| 8/11/25 | ![]() STEMcast Episode 36 | “Specialization is for Insects”: Building Neuroscience Foundation Models with Prof. Adrien Peyrache and Prof. Blake Richards✨ | neuroscienceAI+3 | Prof. Adrien PeyracheProf. Blake Richards | McGill UniversityMontreal Neurological Institute+1 | — | neuroscienceAI+5 | — | 42m 26s | |
| 8/3/25 | ![]() STEMcast Episode 35 | Handshakes between Methods and People: Fostering Collaboration at the Flatiron Institute with Prof. Andrew Millis✨ | quantum mechanicscollaboration+4 | Prof. Andrew Millis | Columbia UniversityFlatiron Institute+2 | — | quantum mechanicscollaboration+5 | — | 38m 04s | |
| 7/27/25 | ![]() STEMcast Episode 34 | A Lesson in Science History: The Discovery vs. The Discoverer with Prof. Matthew Cobb✨ | science historypublic perception of life sciences+4 | Matthew Cobb | University of Manchesterdouble helix+2 | — | science historydiscovery+5 | — | 44m 10s | |
| 7/15/25 | ![]() STEMCast Episode 33 | “The Paper Beyond the Paper”: Publishing in Nature Neuroscience with Dr. Shari Wiseman✨ | scientific publishingneuroscience+3 | Dr. Shari Wiseman | Nature Neuroscience | — | scientific editingneuroscience trends+3 | — | 43m 36s | |
| 6/28/25 | ![]() STEMcast Episode 32 | Nano-Physics with Peter Grutter: How do the Structure and Properties of Tiny Things Work, and What Does that Mean for Us?✨ | nano-physicsatomic force microscopy+3 | Dr. Peter Grutter | atomic force microscopy (AFM)STEMcast | — | nano-physicsatomic force microscopy+5 | — | 1h 06m 20s | |
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| 6/14/25 | ![]() STEMcast Episode 31 | Meet the Judges! Dr Asia Vighi and Dr Jeff Bouffard share their wisdom and perspective as iGEM judges.✨ | synthetic biologyiGEM competition+3 | Dr Asia VighiDr Jeff Bouffard | McGill | — | iGEMminiGEM+5 | — | 45m 30s | |
| 6/1/25 | ![]() STEMcast Episode 30 | Biotechnologies and Their Perception in India with Dr. Julia Freeman: How Can We Best Utilize this Technology, and What’s Stopping Us?✨ | biotechnologyagriculture+3 | Dr. Julia Freeman | — | India | biotechnologyIndia+5 | — | 42m 40s | |
| 5/18/25 | ![]() STEMcast Episode 29 | The Hunt for Extraterrestrials with McGill iGEM Founder Dr. Jay Nadeau: Are They There, and How Can we Prove It? | This STEMcast episode, we are joined by Dr. Jay Nadeau, an astrophysicist currently part of the search for extraterrestrial life and a key founder of McGill’s first iGEM team. We hear about how Dr. Nadeau’s career led her to McGill and how her physics background complements her biological work, before discussing the thermodynamic probability of life arising on other planets/moons, and how humanity might go about finding it. | 37m 01s | ||||||
| 5/4/25 | ![]() STEMcast Episode 28 | Plant-Fungi-Insect Interaction with Dr. Shireef Darwish: Everything About the Criminally Under-explored World of Fungi | Fungi enthusiast and expert Dr. Shireef Darwish gives us a window into the third class of life on earth (after plants and animals) — fungi. After falling in love with these organisms early in his career, Dr. Darwish has experimented with all sorts of fungi-related work, including teaching, lab work, and even foraging for rare fungi (often to take home and eat!). In this episode, Dr. Darwish explains the ubiquitous role fungi play in the life cycles of both plants and animals, how these organisms can be used medicinally, and even the chemistry behind fungi-based hallucinogens. | 56m 17s | ||||||
| 4/20/25 | ![]() STEMcast Episode 27 | Ecology x Evolution with Dr. Simon Daoust: How Parasites and Hosts Co-evolve | In this episode of STEMcast, we join Simon Daoust to discuss the intersection of ecology, evolution, and medicine. We hear about everything from mind-controlling parasites to sustainable ecosystem design, and explore questions like “will there ever be a cure to cancer?”, or “why are Homo Sapiens the only human-like species to have avoided extinction?”. Dr. Daoust’s broad expertise provides for a thrilling and humorous deep-dive into all of these. | 34m 29s | ||||||
| 4/6/25 | ![]() STEMcast Episode 26 | Extreme Microbes with Dr. Nagissa Mahmoudi: How Does Life Survive Space, the Deep Ocean, and More? | In this episode of STEMcast, we join Dr. Nagissa Mahmoudi — a biogeochemist at McGill University — in exploring how microbes live and thrive in various extremes. We hear how Dr. Mahmoudi fell in love with biology, and how she spends her days now as an educator and researcher. She provides wisdom on how events such as oil spills can affect their ecosystems’ microbiomes, and we hear an expert’s predictions on the possibilities of life outside of Earth. All this and more on this episode of STEMcast. | 52m 08s | ||||||
| 8/14/24 | ![]() STEMCast Episode 25 | NeuroAI with Yohaï-Eliel Berreby: Finding Symbiosis Between Mind and Machine | Join us on this episode of STEMCast as we explore topics ranging from NeuroAI to student entrepreneurship with Yohaï-Eliel Berreby, a current Ph.D. student at McGill University's School of Biomedical Sciences. He is a CAMBAM and Childress Fellow and has received many prestigious awards alongside his doctoral studies in one of McGill's most renowned programs. Besides pursuing NeuroAI research, he has also won multiple high-profile hackathons (e.g., ReadyTraderGo Algorithmic Market Making Competition, Meta's AI Safety Hackathon, etc.) and is the acting CEO of ShapeShifters, an IT consulting firm based in Paris. How has he managed to balance so many commitments? What advice would he give to students? Hear it all on this episode of STEMCast. | 50m 02s | ||||||
| 8/6/24 | ![]() STEMCast Episode 24 | Deep Learning with Prof. Aaron Courville: What More is There to Learn? | In this episode of STEMCast, we will be diving into the world of artificial intelligence with Professor Aaron Courville, with topics spanning from Game Theory to Explainable AI. Prof. Courville is from the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at Université de Montréal. He is one of the founding members of Mila and a Canada CIFAIR AI Chair.Alongside Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio, he co-wrote the seminal textbook on deep learning: aptly named Deep Learning. His current research focuses on developing deep learning models and methods, with a particular interest in reinforcement learning, deep generative models, and multimodal ML in the domains of language and vision. | 45m 17s | ||||||
| 7/26/24 | ![]() STEMcast Episode 23 | Microorganisms and Geomicrobiology with Dr. Mahmoudi | In this episode, we dive into the wonders of the depths of Earth's oceans and the reaches of empty space to explore the role that microorganisms play in life everywhere with Dr. Nagissa Mahmoudi, a specialist in Geomicrobiology and Assistant Professor at McGill in the School of Environment and at Trottier Space Institute. Dr. Mahmoudi received her bachelor of science in integrative biology at the University of Toronto and her PhD in Environmental Geochemistry at McMaster University and has since had an incredibly successful career in geomicrobiology academia, with over a decade of attention-grabbing publications under her belt. | 46m 49s | ||||||
| 5/29/24 | ![]() STEMcast Episode 22 | Surface Chemistry and Binding with Dr. Guo | In this episode of STEMcast, we explore Dr. Shuaiqi Guo's academic history as well as his research in adhesive surface chemistry and its relation to antimicrobial resistance. Dr. Guo is an assistant professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at McGill University. He completed his education worldwide, starting at the undergraduate level at Mount Allison University, continuing into his Ph.D. at Queen's University, and finally in postdoctoral fellowship at Eindhoven University of Technology and Yale University. His current research is focused on combatting antimicrobial resistance through alternative methods focused on bacterial adhesion, which has particular promise in its ability to circumvent the speed of bacterial evolution by preventing binding in the first place. | 23m 42s | ||||||
| 5/29/24 | ![]() STEMcast Episode 21 | Radiotherapy with Dr. Enger | This episode of STEMcast focuses on Doctor Shirin Abbasinejad Enger and her research in oncology and medical physics. Dr. Enger is an associate professor in the Department of Oncology at the Jewish General Hospital section of McGill Medicine. Her work focuses in interdisciplinary development and testing of cancer therapies, including brachytherapy and much more. Dr. Enger received her PhD from Uppsala University, and uses her expertise to lead students across multiple branches for cancer research. | 43m 53s | ||||||
| 10/6/23 | ![]() STEMcast Episode 20 | Mechano-Biology with Dr. Li | In this special collaborative episode of STEMCast (McGill iGEM x UBC-Okanagan iGEM), we speak with Dr. Isaac Li, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. Dr. Li's lab builds DNA-based molecular tools to study mechanobiology through single-molecule and quantitative imaging. These tools are used to better understand the cell-cell interactions involved in diseases such as cancer. Dr. Li was named UBCO Faculty Researcher of the Year in 2023. He also acts as the Primary Investigator for the UBC-Okanagan iGEM Team. Join us for this special episode featuring UBC-Okanagan iGEM's Human Practices Lead, Oluwatinufemi (Tinu) Tope-Awofeko. | 32m 59s | ||||||
| 10/4/23 | ![]() STEMcast Episode 19 | Brain Injury with Dr. Park | Dr. Eugene Park is a specialist in the pathophysiology of traumatic brain injury and brain injury therapeutics to improve outcomes. Dr. Park graduated with a master's from the department of Physiology at UofT and a Ph.D. from the Institute of Medical Science at UofT as well. Dr. Park is currently working as a Senior Research Associate at Unity Health Toronto. | 49m 16s | ||||||
| 10/4/23 | ![]() STEMcast Episode 18 | iGEM, SynBio, and Bioengineering with Dr. Drew Endy | Dr. Drew Endy is a synthetic biologist and professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University. He helped start new undergraduate majors in bioengineering at both MIT and Stanford. Twenty years ago Drew also helped launch the iGEM competition. As a group of students passionate about building with biology, it's a privilege to be able to speak with Dr. Endy. | 1h 07m 07s | ||||||
| 10/4/23 | ![]() STEMcast Episode 17 | Public Health with Dr. Brown | In this mini-episode of STEMcast, we speak with Dr. Adalsteinn Brown. Dr. Brown is the Dean of Dalla Lana, the school of public health at the University of Toronto. He obtained his A.B. from Harvard and PhD at Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has been the co-chair of COVID-19 Advisory Board in Ontario and has held many senior leadership roles in health policy. His research interests include health policy, public health emergency preparedness, outcome assessment in healthcare, and equity in healthcare. | 19m 43s | ||||||
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