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  • Grow Everything Biotech Podcast

    190. Pour Some Sugar on Yeast: Lisa Roessler Scales Biology at Amyris

    17/07/2026 | 1 h
    Lisa Ressler has spent more than 35 years working in science-based businesses, including DuPont and Evonik, and now serves as Chief Commercial Officer at Amyris. In this conversation, she joins Karl and Erum to discuss where Amyris stands today, what the company learned from Chapter 11, and why returning its focus to B2B science was the right move. Lisa explains the company’s 1.5 million-liter fermentation facility in Barra Bonita, Brazil, its partnership with Wacker to develop bio-based personal care ingredients, and the simple framework she uses to decide which markets are worth pursuing. She also shares what it takes for a bio-based ingredient to move beyond higher “green” pricing and reach large-scale commercial use, making the case that strong performance is ultimately what convinces customers.
    Grow Everything brings the bioeconomy to life. Hosts Karl Schmieder and Erum Azeez Khan share stories and interview the leaders and influencers changing the world by growing everything. Biology is the oldest technology. And it can be engineered. What are we growing?
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    Chapters:
    (00:00:00) - Introduction and catching up after the Fourth of July
    (00:05:00) - Soil health, regenerative agriculture, and current biotech trends
    (00:10:00) - Biomanufacturing in China and the global race for scale and speed
    (00:15:00) - Meet Lisa Ressler, Chief Commercial Officer at Amyris
    (00:19:00) - What Amyris produces and how it works with partners across the supply chain
    (00:24:00) - Amyris’s return to B2B and what enterprise customers want after Chapter 11
    (00:31:00) - How Amyris and Wacker collaborate from research through development
    (00:37:00) - Proprietary molecules and how Amyris chooses which markets to pursue
    (00:41:00) - Exploring Amyris’s molecule portfolio, from squalane to vaccines
    (00:48:00) - The future of precision fermentation and quick-fire questions
    Links and Resources:
    Amyris
    Lisa Roessler
    Amyris' sustainable squalene
    Amyris, Inc. Launches New Production Line at Brazil Precision Fermentation Plant
    WACKER and biomanufacturing pioneer Amyris join forces in the personal-care sector
    179. D.C. Climate Week LIVE: The Road to Remake Everything
    183. The American Biotech Blueprint: Senator Todd Young on Biodiversity as National Security
    73. At the Bleeding Edge: Cresilon's Joe Landolina on Rapid Wound Care
    141. Gut Check! Viome’s Momo & Guru Decode Your Inner Microbiome
    158. Mycelium On, Sound Off: How GOB's Lauryn Menard Makes Biomaterials Feel Like Culture
    SilvaBio and Foray Bioscience Announce Acceleration to Restore the American Chestnut
    Common Ground - agriculture documentary
    Siphonophore - longest animal
    BioInnovations Events - For 25% off use code: Grow Everything
    Topics Covered:
    precision fermentation, Amyris, squalane, sustainable beauty ingredients, bio-based chemistry, PFAS alternatives, industrial biotechnology, synthetic biology, vaccine adjuvant squalene, green chemistry
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    Music by: Nihilore 
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  • Grow Everything Biotech Podcast

    189. Infinite Threads: Recycling Athleisure Waste with Samsara’s Vanessa Vongsouthi

    10/07/2026 | 48 min
    Vanessa Vongsouthi, Research Founder and Head of Bioengineering at Samsara Eco, joins host Erum on the Grow Everything Podcast to discuss how engineered enzymes and AI are making it possible to recycle textiles and plastics repeatedly. Vanessa explains how Samsara uses AI-assisted protein design and ancestral sequence reconstruction to create enzymes that break down complex polymers, including Nylon 6,6, into their original chemical building blocks. Those materials can then be returned to existing supply chains and used to create virgin-equivalent products that are indistinguishable from materials made from petrochemicals. She also shares the story behind the world’s first enzymatically recycled Nylon 6,6 jacket, created in partnership with Lululemon, and explores how Samsara Eco was built through Main Sequence Ventures’ orchestration model alongside partners such as Woolworths and the Australian National University. The conversation also looks at what a future built around distributed, local recycling infrastructure could mean for designers, manufacturers, consumers, and the global circular economy.
    Grow Everything brings the bioeconomy to life. Hosts Karl Schmieder and Erum Azeez Khan share stories and interview the leaders and innovators changing the world through biology. Biology is the world’s oldest technology, and it can be engineered. So, what are we growing?
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    Chapters:
    (00:00:00) - Intro: Heat waves, climate impacts, and the bioeconomy
    (00:03:00) - Would Big Tech buy a pharmaceutical company?
    (00:08:00) - Brewed human collagen: Gelatech x Hugel partnership
    (00:10:00) - France bans fast fashion: Shein, Temu, and the Atacama Desert
    (00:13:00) - Introducing Vanessa Vongsouthi of Samsara Eco
    (00:17:00) - Biology as future industrial infrastructure
    (00:22:00) - Programming enzymes with AI and ancestral sequence reconstruction
    (00:29:00) - The Lululemon jacket: proof that enzymatic recycling scales
    (00:35:00) - Distributed recycling and a circular material economy
    (00:42:00) - Post-interview debrief and key takeaways
    Links and Resources:
    Forbes - Vanessa Vongsouthi
    Samsara Eco
    Samsara Eco - LinkedIn
    How Samsara Eco made a jacket with Lululemon from enzymatically recycled polyester
    lululemon and Samsara Eco Announce 10-Year Plan to Advance Recycled Material Portfolio
    The world has an anchovy problem
    AI Age Anthropic launches AI drug discovery program, joining tech giants in betting on healthcare
    FDA to fast-track food as medicine
    Jellatech Partners with South Korea’s Hugel to Bring Cell-Cultured Human Collagen to Market
    French parliament passes fast fashion bill targeting Shein and Temu
    149. Beyond Capital: Phil Morle of Main Sequence Ventures on Collaboration as the New Competitive Edge
    45. Insuring Your Lunch: Aanika’s Vishaal Bhuyan Cracks the Microbial Code of Food Security
    122. Ecohacking the Planet: Daniel Goodwin of Homeworld Collective Brews Up Planetary-Scale Solutions
    175. Seaweed Is the New Oil: Mari Granström Builds Origin by Ocean
    Grow Everything LinkedIn
    BioInnovations Events - For 25% off use code: Grow Everything
    Topics Covered:
    enzymatic recycling, nylon 66 recycling, textile waste, circular economy, bioengineering, protein engineering, infinite recycling, sustainable fashion, Lululemon recycled jacket, plastic recycling technology
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    Music by: Nihilore 
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  • Grow Everything Biotech Podcast

    188. Which Came First: Chicken, Egg, or Medicine? Neion Bio Turns Evolution into a Precision Factory

    03/07/2026 | 1 h 11 min
    What happens when an evolutionary biologist and an aerospace engineer both arrive at the same conclusion — that the future of drug manufacturing isn't steel, it's biology? In this episode, Karl Schmieder and Erum Azeez Khan sit down with Sam Levin (Co-Founder & CTO) and Dimi Kellari (Co-Founder & CEO) of Neion Bio to unpack one of the most counterintuitive ideas in modern biomanufacturing: producing therapeutic medicines inside genetically engineered chicken eggs. Rather than optimizing the same mammalian cell culture systems that have defined biopharma for 50 years, Neion Bio's Raptor platform replaces complex steel bioreactor infrastructure with a self-replicating, two-input biological system — chicken feed and water in, life-saving medicines out. The conversation covers their stealth-to-commercial journey, a multi-product monoclonal antibody partnership announced alongside $11M in seed funding, the scalability and supply chain resilience advantages of egg-based manufacturing, how they navigate FDA regulation with a living bioreactor, and their North Star: dropping end-to-end production costs of monoclonal antibodies below $10 per gram — an order of magnitude that could fundamentally reshape who has access to biologics and where they're made.
    Grow Everything brings the bioeconomy to life. Hosts Karl Schmieder and Erum Azeez Khan share stories and interview the leaders and influencers changing the world by growing everything. Biology is the oldest technology. And it can be engineered. What are we growing?
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    Chapters:
    (00:00:00) - Intro & 4th of July: America's 250th anniversary celebrations
    (00:03:00) - America's Living Library Act & NDAA biotech provisions
    (00:06:00) - Midjourney's ultrasonic body scanner & patient data ownership
    (00:10:00) - NVIDIA's AI co-scientist, the AI value pyramid & AbbVie's $11B Apogee acquisition
    (00:20:00) - Introducing Sam Levin & Dimi Kellari of Neion Bio
    (00:26:00) - Neion Bio's Raptor platform: making medicines inside chicken eggs
    (00:33:00) - Scalability, onshoring & true supply chain resilience
    (00:39:00) - Downstream purification: cracking eggs vs. CHO cell lysate
    (00:47:00) - FDA pathways & batch-to-batch consistency in a living bioreactor
    (00:50:00) - Drug supply chain fragility & national health security
    (00:56:00) - $10/gram North Star: end-to-end cost breakdown
    (01:00:00) - Quickfire Q&A: engineering challenges, union demands & investor misconceptions
    (01:04:00) - Outro: calls to action & what's next for Neion Bio
    Links and Resources:
    Neion Bio
    Contact to partner with Neion Bio
    Chicken Eggs Become Biorectors
    Neion Bio Raises Oversubscribed $23 Million Series A to Advance Biologics Manufacturing Platform and Expand Pipeline
    183. The American Biotech Blueprint: Senator Todd Young on Biodiversity as National Security
    186. N.Y. Tech Week Live Demo: Engineering the Future of Manufacturing with Roebling's Brentan Alexander
    170. There's a Bug for That: Sophia Xu on CarbonBridge's Notebook Bioreactors
    176. Dare to Commercialize: Damien Perriman’s eXoZymes Playbook
    NVIDIA announces BioNeMo
    A.I. Value Pyramid - Murat Aktihanoglu
    AbbVie to acquire Apogee for $11B
    Grow everything LinkedIn
    BioInnovations Events - For 25% off use code: Grow Everything
    Topics Covered:
    chickens, eggs, biomanufacturing, therapeutic medicines, CHO cells, monoclonal antibodies, supply chain, biosimilars, Raptor, national health security
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    Music by: Nihilore 
    Production by: Amplafy Media
  • Grow Everything Biotech Podcast

    187. One Small Step for a Microbe: Lynn Rothschild’s Leap from Astrobiology to Bioengineering at NASA

    26/06/2026 | 1 h 19 min
    What does it actually take to keep humans alive on Mars? Not the SpaceX version — the biology version. Dr. Lynn Rothschild, research scientist at NASA Ames and adjunct professor at Brown and Stanford, has spent decades at the intersection of astrobiology and synthetic biology, and her answer is both elegant and radical: life itself is the technology. On this episode, Karl and Erum sit down with one of the scientists who helped build NASA's synthetic biology program to talk about on-demand drug manufacturing in space, growing habitats out of fungal mycelium, engineering bacteria to pull specific metals from e-waste, and the audacious "Hell Cell" project that aims to stack every survival superpower nature has ever evolved into a single organism. If you've ever wondered what it looks like when evolutionary biology meets aerospace engineering meets materials science — with a healthy dose of iGEM undergrads and Tetris metaphors — this one's for you.
    Grow Everything brings the bioeconomy to life. Hosts Karl Schmieder and Erum Azeez Khan share stories and interview the leaders and influencers changing the world by growing everything. Biology is the oldest technology. And it can be engineered. What are we growing?
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    Chapters:
    (00:00:00) - NYC energy, the Knicks parade, and when does biotech get its ticker tape?
    (00:04:00) - Peptides: biohacking goes mainstream, and why the back alley of your gym is not a pharmacy
    (00:10:00) - Bemotrizinol: the first new active sunscreen ingredient cleared in the US in over 20 years
    (00:14:30) - Listener shoutouts and a night with sci-fi legend Kim Stanley Robinson at Pioneer Works
    (00:22:30) - SpaceX goes public at a $2.5 trillion valuation — what the space economy actually means
    (00:26:00) - Why biology — not steel or solar — is the only real answer to the upmass problem
    (00:35:00) - Lynn's origin story: from studying extremophiles to being told to engineer them for NASA
    (00:42:00) - The astro pharmacy: programming bacteria to brew medicine on demand during a six-month Mars transit
    (00:51:00) - The Hell Cell, AI in the lab, and Lynn's Tetris approach to building multi-disciplinary teams
    (01:04:00) - Gravity, radiation, the 2030s Mars timeline, and what from Lynn's lab shows up in your house first
    Links and Resources:
    Lynn Rothschild
    NASA interview with Lynn Rothschild
    Nature's Hardware Store - Lynn on Building the Future with Biology
    The Peptide Gold Rush
    Bemotrizinol - new FDA approved sunscreen ingredient
    185. Brick Happens: Chris Maurer of Redhouse Studio Redesigns Remote Living for Earth and Mars
    93. Houston, We Have a Protocol: NASA's Kate Rubins on Biotech in Space
    116. Cell Yeah for Space!: Pioneer Labs' Erika DeBenedictis on Engineering Life for Mars
    156. When Matter Makes Decisions: Michael Levin on the Intelligence of Form
    111. Space Genes and Subway Scenes: Chris Mason on Planning Life’s Next Big Leap
    BioInnovations Events - For 25% off use code: Grow Everything
    Topics Covered:
    Synthetic biology in space, astrobiology, space biomanufacturing, Mars missions, biomining, on-demand pharmaceuticals, extremophiles, mycelium architecture, space sustainability, lunar infrastructure
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    186. N.Y. Tech Week Live Demo: Engineering the Future of Manufacturing with Roebling's Brentan Alexander

    18/06/2026 | 39 min
    Recorded live at New York Tech Week, Karl and Erum sit down with Brenton Alexander (CTO at Roebling) to unpack one of the biggest bottlenecks in scaling “biology as technology”: figuring out what it really takes to design and finance physical infrastructure. Brenton walks through how Roebling uses AI alongside deterministic engineering models (physics/thermodynamics) to accelerate early facility design, generate capex/opex estimates with uncertainty ranges (not false precision), and help teams run scenarios fast—so founders, investors, and operators can make better go/no-go decisions earlier, reduce wasteful iteration across siloed teams, and focus human expertise where it matters most.
    Grow Everything brings the bioeconomy to life. Hosts Karl Schmieder and Erum Azeez Khan share stories and interview the leaders and influencers changing the world by growing everything. Biology is the oldest technology. And it can be engineered. What are we growing?
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    Chapters:
    (00:00:00) Welcome to Grow Everything Live at NY Tech Week
    (00:02:10) The “infrastructure gap”: why feasibility work is slow and expensive
    (00:03:05) What Roebling does: accelerating the path from R&D to final investment decision
    (00:05:05) Live demo setup: building a yeast-based fermentation facility for a red bio-dye
    (00:07:15) What the platform decides (and why inputs matter): equipment, DSP, and cost drivers
    (00:10:00) “Why not just use Claude?” Deterministic models + AI tooling for defensible results
    (00:14:30) Handling uncertainty: ranges, distributions, and Monte Carlo-style scenario runs
    (00:18:40) What changes for engineers/consultants: shifting effort from manual work to judgment
    (00:23:10) Reading the outputs: capex/opex, IRR, and the “tornado chart” of uncertainty drivers
    (00:28:10) Audience Q&A: logistics/customer delivery, AI’s impact on costs, review fatigue, and assumptions
    (00:29:30) Long-term direction: more fidelity, narrower bounds, EPC-ready handoff
    (00:30:05) Audience Q&A begins
    (00:30:30) Q1: logistics + customer delivery costs (not just “at the gate”)
    (00:32:55) Q2: how AI changes operating cost assumptions over time
    (00:34:15) Q3: review fatigue—how to structure checks and triage what matters
    (00:36:10) Q4: what did the model assume for “colorant”? (and why specificity matters)
    (00:38:15) Wrap-up + thank-yous
    Links and Resources:
    Roebling
    Roebling Early Access Program
    Brentan Alexandar
    Edward Shenderovich
    65. Scaling Cells, Dreaming Big: The Biomanufacturing Cloud with Synonym’s Edward Shenderovich
    166. The Great Reformulation: Joshua Lachter Rethinks How We Make Everything at Scale
    172. Generating Needles in Haystacks: Elise de Reus Designs Proteins with Cradle
    BioInnovations Events - For 25% off use code: Grow Everything
    Topics Covered:
    Roebling, bioprocess modeling, techno-economic analysis, fermentation economics, food dyes, bio-based ingredients, process engineering, AI for biomanufacturing, scale-up planning, regulatory considerations, industrial engineering AI.
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    Music by: Nihilore 
    Production by: Amplafy Media
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Grow Everything explores the world of biology as technology. Hosts Erum Khan and Karl Schmieder interview leaders and influencers biologizing industries with tools like synthetic biology, precision fermentation, bioprospecting, and more. These companies make biomaterials from waste, cosmetics that restore healthy hair and skin, and delicious cultivated foods in a bioreactor and so much more. Join us as we discuss the latest and greatest across biotech, engineered biology, entrepreneurship, and culture and how this transition is solving healthcare and climate change challenges.
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