My biochemistry watchlist – some suggestions for biochemistry, biology, and chemistry seminar series, recorded courses, etc. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7btBytjKFA&ab_channel=thebumblingbiochemist

YouTube: https://youtu.be/R7btBytjKFA 

There’s a lot more than just cat videos on YouTube! There’s great free science content. I love watching seminars and courses during workouts (and other times) and here’s some of what’s on my playlist!

These are some recurring seminar series I subscribe to:

• NIH Director’s Wednesday Afternoon Lectures, from NIH VideoCast channel – they have weekly seminars from leading biomedical researchers covering a range of health-related topics, from genetics, microbiology, immunology, cancer biology, neuroscience, etc.
  • Link to playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1F9CE65D2F87D4A7
  • One of my favorites, by Dr. Rachel Green, Colliding Ribosomes Function as a Sentinel for Cellular Distress https://youtu.be/Kh9uR9aRuGI?list=PL1F9CE65D2F87D4A7

• RNA Collaborative Seminar Series – typically two ~30 talks by RNA researchers. You can also sign up to get Zoom links so you can watch live and ask questions. https://www.youtube.com/@rnacollaborativeseminarser5993/videos
  • One of my favorites was the January 18, 2023 one, “University of Michigan Center for RNA Biomedicine, Rachel Niederer, Assistant Professor, Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School – “Uncovering Novel Translational Control Elements within 5′-UTRs” and Jay Querido, Assistant Professor, Biological Chemistry; Assistant Research Professor, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan Medical School– “The Structural Basis of Translational Initiation and its Regulation by the RNA Helicase eIF4A” https://youtu.be/yzZkH5Zk50s

• CSHL Leading Strand – keynote lectures and interviews with scientists attending meetings at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingStrand/videos

• QBI TV – videos from UCSF’s Quantitative Biosciences Institute: https://www.youtube.com/@QBITVUCSF/about

• UCSF Academic Senate – in particular, the Faculty Research Lectures https://www.youtube.com/@ucsfacademicsenate4266/videos
  • A great one by Dr. Alexander (Sandy) Johnson, “Why things are the way they are in biology: a molecular biologist grapples with evolution” https://youtu.be/lq8UBbhmd2w

• Broad Institute – lots of cool stuff. https://www.youtube.com/@broadinstitute/videos
  • I really liked their Broad-MIT Seminar Series in Chemical Biology talks, including: David Liu, Base Editing and Prime Editing: Precise Chemistry on the Genome without Double-Strand DNA Breaks https://youtu.be/6tHs6_l2hSY

• Life Sciences Across the Globe, from HHMI’s Janelia campus – shortish research and “culture” talks from scientists from around the world (different institutions take turns) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTHgpZlI_u0hwjPDFH7KpW79uOPpvEP9x

• GARDP Webinars – talks on various aspects of Antimicrobial resistance and the development of new antibiotics https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTHgpZlI_u0hwjPDFH7KpW79uOPpvEP9x

• Dana Farber TPD series – talks on Targeted Protein Degradation (PROTACS, molecular glues, etc.) https://www.youtube.com/@dana-farbertpd2793/videos
  • A great one from Berkeley’s Dr. Dan Nomura on Reimagining drivability using chemoproteomic platforms https://youtu.be/0V5M76FFbYw

• Biochemistry Focus webinar series from the Biochemical Society – a variety of biochemistry talks and some career-related stuff https://www.youtube.com/@biochemistryfocus

• SBGrid Consortium – structural biology software talks, often given by the software developers https://www.youtube.com/@SBGridTV/featured

Here are some courses I like:

• Chem 128: Intro to Chem Biology by Dr. Gregory Weiss at UC Irvine https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqOZ6FD_RQ7nT_YuhXKJVEDPjGvj5Lspa

• MIT 508J Biological Chemistry II, Spring 2016 by Drs. Elizabeth Nolan & JoAnne Stubbe – Lots of great stuff about the mechanistic basis of translation and how scientists figure it out  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63vvR4xtexZdoPywRYIZI0-

• Chem 51B Organic Chemistry Winter 2013, by Dr. David Van Vranken at UC Irvine: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnFu5j2p3EshW7-oYpH70PiR4OFZ5mh40

• Cell Biology by the Numbers by Dr. Ron Milo – 2014/15 – intuitive thinking about relative sizes, concentrations, speeds, etc. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnW9-ausEh9GDI5e728mPN1LXnO0deocP
  • Corresponding online book: http://book.bionumbers.org/

Huge thanks to all those involved in these videos!

There’s tons more great content out there as well. And once you find a good channel you can subscribe so you can see when they post new stuff and decide whether you want to watch it. If you’re looking for seminars, try typing a topic or subject and “seminar” or “lecture” and/or setting the time filter to only show you longer videos.

If you’re interested, you can also find playlists I’ve put together of my own videos here: https://www.youtube.com/@thebumblingbiochemist/playlists 

As always, just doing it to help people, not self-promote for monetary gain or anything. I do not monetize any of this. 

Hope you find something that interests you other than cats!

And if you’re looking for podcasts:

YouTube: https://youtu.be/UJE8UIQq9xY 

 Just thought I’d share some of my favorite science podcasts in case anyone was looking for things to listen to…

Huge thanks to all the hosts!