Optogenetics is the study of light-controlled biological systems, this may sound futuristic, however, many organisms already change in response to light. In this episode, we talked with Dr. Armin Baumschlager about his work and understanding of how we can engineer artificial light-control in biology. We spoke about the applications of this in research, metabolic engineering and how one might go about engineering proteins for light-controlled behaviour.
Optogenetics is the study of light-controlled biological systems, this may sound futuristic, however, many organisms already change in response to light. In this episode, we talked with Dr. Armin Baumschlager about his work and understanding of how we can engineer artificial light-control in biology. We spoke about the applications of this in research, metabolic engineering and how one might go about engineering proteins for light-controlled behaviour.