Jason Alme Podcasts

Jason yaps about John Wick 4 because he managed to see a movie on release day for once and he wants to brag about it. It's a miracle he keeps this to under a half hour. Even still, it's a good review of a brand new movie and there's no spoilers so listen up! Support us on Patreon if you’re cool!By Team Alme

Guest: Dr. Noriaki Ono is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas Health Center at Houston. His research focuses on bone development and regeneration. He talks about in vivo lineage tracing techniques and how early perichondrial cells contribute to developing bones. He also discusses the art and science of dentistry, mentorship, and movin…

Guest: Dr. Ryan Conder is the Director of Epithelial and Organoid Systems at STEMCELL Technologies. He talks about the next phase in organoid research and what questions organoids can help answer. He also discusses his experience doing a postdoc in Vienna, and Vancouver as a growing biotech hub. Featured Products and Resources: Register for ISSCR 2…

Guests: Keith Alm is the CEO, Dr. Haifan Lin is the President, and Dr. David Scadden is 2023 Annual Meeting Program Chair of the ISSCR. They talk about the upcoming annual meeting being held this year in Boston, a biotech hub with a vibrant stem cell research community. They discuss the highlights of this year’s program including speakers, award wi…

Today Jason discusses the character who puts the Kimagure in Kimagure Orange Road: Ayukawa Madoka. Join us for a deep analysis of the Ayukawa character. Is she just good at everything? What are the forces that pull her in opposing directions? What does she see in that goofball Kasuga? Does she remember meeting him in 1983? Please consider becoming …

Guest: Dr. Lorenz Studer is the Director of the Center for Stem Cell Biology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute. His lab exploits recent advances in stem cell biology to develop new therapies for degenerative diseases and cancer. Their projects involve directing the fate and age of hPSCs, modeling diseases, and developing cell therapies. …

Guest: Dr. Boyang Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at McMaster University. His lab uses advanced biofabrication techniques to build human micro-tissue models for predictive drug discovery and to construct functional macro-tissues for tissue regeneration in patients. He talks about building microfluidic devices for biological …

Guests: In this special episode, Daylon and Arun chat with Drs. Jason Goldsmith and Brenda Raud, the hosts of The Immunology Podcast. Recorded in-person and led by Dr. Nicole Quinn from STEMCELL Technologies, the four hosts discuss the impact that podcasting has had on their careers and how it can make science and scientists more accessible. They a…

Today Jason talks all about our goofball protagonist, Kasuga Kyosuke. Join us for an appraisal of the Kasuga character. How is Kasuga mischaracterized? What is is story arc and how does his character progress? And how the heck did Kasuga get Ayukawa to fall in love with him? Please consider supporting Team Alme podcasts - we send free swag, post ea…

Guest: Dr. Clive Svendsen is the Executive Director of the Regenerative Medicine Institute at Cedars-Sinai. His lab uses stem cells to develop models and treatments for neurodegenerative diseases. He talks about using stem cells to model spinal muscular atrophy and the blood-brain barrier, and his cell-gene therapy trial for ALS. Featured Products …

Guest: Dr. Shuibing Chen is the Kilts Family Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine. Her lab uses hiPSCs and ESCs for disease modeling and drug screening, with a focus on diabetes and infectious diseases such as Zika and SARS-CoV-2. She talks about her recent genome-wide association study in a dish, the role of philanthropic funding in stem…

Guest: Dr. Paola Arlotta is the Golub Family Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University. She is interested in understanding the molecular laws that govern the birth, differentiation, and assembly of the human brain’s cerebral cortex. She talks about using organoids to study the genetics of autism. She also discusses singl…

In today’s episode, Jason is analyzing movie 2 - “Shin Kimagure Orange Road: Summer’s Beginning” Is this sequel an unnecessary cash grab? Or is it a meaningful continuation of the Orange Road story? How does this film compare to the body of work preceding it? These topics and more in this double-length episode! Please consider supporting Team Alme …

Guest: Dr. Jacob Hanna is an Associate Professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science. His lab investigates cellular reprogramming and embryogenesis. He talks about the challenges of growing synthetic embryo models in a roller culture system and the feasibility of making human gametes. He also discusses his startup, Renewal Bio, the ethical discuss…

I’ll tell you all about the time I was WHACKED on pain meds and revisited Brian DePalma’s Scarface only to experience a Zen Awakening: it’s actually a pretty terrible movie! Support Team Alme on Patreon for early releases, exclusive content, and free swag sent to your mailbox! Check out these other fine Team Alme podcasts: Creatures of the Night Ab…

Guest: Dr. Stefan Irion is the Senior Vice President of Research at BlueRock Therapeutics, a leading engineered cell therapy company with a mission to develop regenerative medicines for intractable diseases. He talks about the company’s Parkinson’s disease trial and the challenges of genetically manipulating stem cells. He also discusses his journe…

Guest: Dr. Jun Wu is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Southwestern. The Wu lab uses interspecies chimeras to study fundamental biology: conserved and divergent developmental programs, determination of body and organ size, species barriers, and cancer resistance. They are also working to develop new applications for regenerative med…

Guest: Dr. Edward Grow is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas, Southwestern. His lab studies reproductive biology, specifically the development of the egg and subsequently the fertilized embryo. He talks about regulating totipotency in ESCs, retroviral reactivation, and ex vivo culturing of follicles and oocytes. Featured Products and…

Guest: Dr. Prisca Liberali is a Senior Group Leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research and an Assistant Professor at the University of Basel. Her research aims to understand the collective properties of organoid systems and their patterns, including how these systems allow systematic perturbation by established methods for …

Guests: Drs. Tenneille Ludwig, Peter Andrews, and Madeline Lancaster are members of the ISSCR Standards Initiative for Pluripotent Stem Cell Research. They discuss the need for basic and preclinical standards to ensure rigor and reproducibility in stem cell research. They also talk about standards for pluripotency and model systems, and the initiat…

In today's double-length episode, Jason analyzes the first Kimagure Orange Road film: "I Want to Return to That Day." It's an excellent piece of filmmaking that is tonally and narratively inconsistent with the rest of the Orange Road media franchise - ESP and hijinks are exchanged for heartbreak and tears. It's not easy to sit through, but it offer…

Guest: Dr. Jackie Damen is a currently a Principal Scientist in Scientific Support for Hematology at STEMCELL Technologies, and was previously the Director of Contract Assay Services. She talks about the company’s culture and growth, and how in her role, she teaches scientists and helps them conduct their experiments. She also discusses systems for…

Guest: Dr. Marian Hettiaratchi is an Assistant Professor at the Knight Campus at the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on affinity-based biomaterials to promote tissue and bone repair. She talks about the delivery vehicles for these biomaterials, and her recent work on heparin-mediated delivery of BMP-2 to promote bone regeneration. Featur…

Jason & the homie kAZual form a dynamic duo this week to discuss The Batman! We go spoiler-deep on The Batman with a full review. We give commentary on the state of the DCEU and cinematic universes in general. We also rank the actors who have played Batman and the live-action Batman films. Do we get it right or will you vehemently disagree and yell…

Guest: Dr. Lydia Finley is an Assistant Member of the Cell Biology Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The Finley lab investigates how cellular metabolic pathways regulate cell fate decisions in stem cells and cancer cells. She talks about the metabolic profiles and needs of different cell types, her lab’s discovery of an alternate T…

In June 2022, we attended the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) annual meeting in San Francisco. We spoke with delegates to get their impressions of the meeting. They discussed the most memorable research presented and shared their thoughts on the challenges facing the stem cell field. Featured Products and Resources: Which organ…

Today Jason discusses the ethics on display in Martin Scorsese's recent masterpiece: The Wolf of Wall Street. We all know Jordan Belfort and his crew engage in constant wrongdoing in The Wolf of Wall Street - but why? What ethical mistakes does Jordan make? Does money make Jordan happy, or make him a better person? Or does money simply enable Jorda…

Today Jason analyzes Kimagure Orange Road tv episode 48 - the final tv episode - "I Found Love - and, Repeat From the Beginning" The Orange Road television series caps things off with an episode chock-full of all the things we've come to love: Cute Ayukawa, Delinquent Ayukawa, precocious pre-adolescent Ayukawa, time slipping, alternate dimensions, …

In June 2022, we attended the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) annual meeting in San Francisco, and recorded daily episodes discussing highlights of the previous 24 hours. Here is the final of four special episodes from the meeting. Featured Products and Resources: Explore on-demand webinars on your favorite topics in stem cell …

In June 2022, we attended the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) annual meeting in San Francisco, and recorded daily episodes discussing highlights of the previous 24 hours. Here is the third of four special episodes from the meeting. Featured Products and Resources: The Stem Cell Research Standards Task Force is a half-day meetin…