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The Climate Biotech PodcastAuthor: Homeworld Collective
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 Dan Goodwin, a neuroscientist turned biotech enthusiast, the podcast features interviews with leading experts diving deep into topics like plant synthetic biology, mitochondrial engineering, gene editing, and more. This podcast is powered by Homeworld Collective, a non-profit whose mission is to ignite the field of climate biotechnology. Language: en-us Genres: Life Sciences, Natural Sciences, Science Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Farewell and Welcome: Dan Goodwin Passes the Mic to Paul Reginato
Tuesday, 24 February, 2026
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 official handover of the podcast to Homeworld Collective's new Executive Director and co-founder, Paul Reginato.Dan and Paul trace their partnership back to MIT, where they were both developing first-of-kind spatial genomics technologies in Ed Boyden and George Church's labs. What started as a shared drive to work on climate change grew into organic community building, and eventually into Homeworld Collective, an organization designed to connect climate biotech practitioners with high-leverage problems, collaborators, and funding.The episode distills wisdom from the podcast's guests so far. When asked what shaped them as thinkers, guests overwhelmingly cited science fiction and art over technical papers. On mentor advice, the theme was self-advocacy: pick hard problems, learn to communicate your work, and trust your own intuition. And when asked where a magic wand of climate biotech should point, answers ranged from better field measurements for methane to the largely untapped interface between geology and biology.At the end of the episode, Paul shares his vision for Homeworld's phase two: refinement and scaling of Homeworld’s methods through more community convenings, a new ambassador program, faster production of problem statements, and more focused grantmaking designed to nucleate productive research communities in underserved, high-impact problem spaces. Dan reflects on his framework for choosing what comes next and highlights the underappreciated connection between environmental pollutants and the 70-80% of human disease that remains sporadic and unexplained.Listen for the best career advice for early-career scientists, like "nail your projects, don't pick your track,” what a tadpole losing its tail teaches us about growth, and why building friendships across disciplinary boundaries can unlock your own potential to impact some of the most important problems of our time. Send a text
