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The HOLOBIONT podcast was created in Spring 2021 with the aims of sharing my fascination for the living world and starting conversations around exciting topics in microbiology, virology, evolution and computational biology.
The term HOLOBIONT, derived from holo- ( whole) and -biont ( life), was first proposed by the biologist Lynn Margulis in 1991. In this conception, organisms are considered as super-organisms formed by a host and all of its associated microbial communities.
The "units of life", formed by interactions between hosts and micro-organisms like viruses and bacteria, are compelling to me for all the levels at which they can be studied. I find incredible beauty in the complexity of these assemblies.
Making sense of the HOLOBIONT requires bridging many scientific disciplines, which I all try to thread together by inviting experts with different backgrounds and research focuses; from structural biology, to classical virology, to biological engineering, physics, epidemiology and many more..
Ursule Demaël
I am a first-year PhD student in Immunity and Infection at University College London (UCL). I founded the podcast while I was an undergraduate student of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Oxford. Originally, I grew up in France and Switzerland.
I have wide ranging interests in immunology, evolution, microbiology and cancer immunotherapy. I am interested in entrepreneurship within the life sciences, and am personally driven by the discoveries and insights that stem from exploration across scientific fields.
As a podcast enthusiast, I started this project to share my passion for the life sciences by interviewing experts.
"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so.
He studies it because he takes pleasure in it,
and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful"
Henri Poincaré (Science and Method, 1908)
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