The Microscopists is a podcast from Bitesize Bio and ZEISS Microscopy that takes you into revealing, entertaining, and personal meetings with the great microscopists of our time. Your host is Dr Peter O’Toole. Peter will help you understand what drives great, successful scientists, what really inspires them and what they enjoy most in life.

This set of candid, fun, and engaging interviews serves not only to help inspire upcoming scientists but to show how career tracks and work-life balance are managed by some of the best. Not only are they great at work, but they have some amazing stories to tell about their lives outside science.

Latest Episodes

Panel Discussion — BioImaging North America (BINA) Executive Board Members

#S6:E67 — In this special episode, Peter O'Toole is joined by Executive Board Members of BioImaging North America (BINA), including:• Alison North, Research Associate ...

Andres Kamaid, Leonel Malacrida, and Mariana De Niz

#66 — In this special episode, Peter O'Toole is joined by researchers from the Latin American community, including: • Andres Kamaid, Researcher at the Institut Pasteur...

Ron Germain (National Institutes of Health)

#65 — Ronald Germain, M.D. is a Distinguished Investigator and Lab Chief of the Lymphocyte Biology Section at the National Institutes of Health. In this episode of The...

Jean-Yves Tinevez (Institut Pasteur)

#64 — Jean-Yves Tinevez is a Research Engineer at Institut Pasteur. In this episode of The Microscopists, Jean-Yves joins Peter O’Toole to discuss why he finds support...

Kedar Narayan (Frederick National Laboratory and National Cancer Institute)

#63 — Kedar Narayan (Frederick National Laboratory and National Cancer Institute) joins Peter O’Toole to discuss how he originally wanted to be a designer and never to...

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