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OMGenomics Podcast

OMGenomics Podcast

Written by: Maria Nattestad and Robert Aboukhalil
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 A casual conversational podcast about the non-scientific parts of life in the biotech industry, this show contains conversations about topics including career paths, side hustles, and whatever is going on in the field right now. Hosted by Maria Nattestad and Robert Aboukhalil, this show includes a mix of interviews with guests doing interesting things in this space, answering listener questions, and otherwise just talking about topics we think are interesting, all while avoiding the actual science as much as possible. We're taking the conversations we might have at a conference cocktail hour and bringing them to you on your walk, drive, or while you do dishes.2023 Maria Nattestad and Robert Aboukhalil Biological Sciences Science
Episodes
  • 001: Sabbaticals

    001: Sabbaticals
    Feb 5 2023
    We discuss our experiences with unofficial industry sabbaticals, aka taking time between jobs for our own projects. Topics: * Funemployment versus sabbatical * Robert's 2021 sabbatical building sandbox.bio learning platform and 42basepairs genomics cloud platform * Maria's 2017 OMGenomics entrepreneurship experience, building Circa visualization software and a YouTube channel * Sabbatical projects helping you get the next job * Satisfaction and meaning from personal projects Links: * Ask us a question!: omgenomics.com/podcast * 42basepairs.com (Robert's genomics cloud platform) * sandbox.bio (Robert's bioinformatics learning platform) * omgenomics.com/circa (Maria's visualization tool) * youtube.com/omgenomics (Maria's YouTube channel) * OMGenomics Q&A episode featuring Robert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SfDHheyKBU&ab_channel=OMGenomics Where to find us online: https://omgenomics.com
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    33 mins
  • 002: You Might be an Imposter

    002: You Might be an Imposter
    Mar 5 2023
    Accepting that we're all imposters in bioinformatics, we tell stories from our own careers. Topics: * Robert's grad school experience in a biology program coming from a computer engineering background. * Maria's experience interviewing at grad schools. * "You can't just go around being like, I'm an idiot. Even if you feel like an idiot, that's just not helpful." Where to find us online: https://omgenomics.com
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    30 mins
  • 003: Job hopping

    003: Job hopping
    Apr 5 2023
    Inspired by opinions seen on Twitter, we discuss whether people should stay much more than 1 year per company to avoid being judged by future employers as a job-hopper, and whether companies should be discriminating this way. Topics: * Benefits of job hopping, early versus late in your career. * A debatable statement by chatGPT. * Is it ethically okay? disloyal? greedy? * Being loyal to a corporate entity that may have no feelings for you. * How can employers/teams deal with the reality of short stints. * The bus/lottery factor. * But isn't this different for biotech than tech? Where to find us online: https://omgenomics.com
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    20 mins
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