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Welcome to Florida State University's official entrepreneurship and innovation podcast, The InNOLEvation® Mindset! Hosted by Mark McNees and powered by the Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship. This podcast features audio and video versions of our podcast, which highlights student and alumni entrepreneurs and innovators from FSU.
Get inspired by the next generation of young business leaders and hear their inside stories. Learn from faculty who teach entrepreneurship and innovation courses at FSU as they share key insights.
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This week’s episode on the InNOLEvation® Mindset Podcast, powered by the Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship, host, Mark McNees interviews FSU’s iGEM PIs David Montez (Center for Undergraduate Research and Academic Engagement) and Cesar Rodriguez (FSU College of Medicine) about iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machines), a global bioengineering competition. They explain how FSU recruits a multidisciplinary cohort each fall for a yearlong experience and organizes 12–15 students into leadership, human practices, and engineering teams, emphasizing teamwork, public engagement, and student-led decision-making. They discuss mentoring through candid feedback, funding from multiple FSU colleges and offices, and the program’s medal history (bronze, no medal, four silvers, three golds), including maintaining participation during the pandemic. Past and current projects include Flowama for citrus greening and Esperance Healthcare, advancing an engineered bacteria solution for fish odor syndrome, now in an accelerator in Vienna, plus Beagle Bioworks on microplastics.
00:00 Welcome and Guests
00:40 Undergrad Research at FSU
01:34 What iGEM Is
02:10 Cesar’s Origin Story
04:00 Multidisciplinary Team Model
05:51 Team Structure and Mission
08:25 Recruiting and Evaluating Students
11:58 Funding and Paris Trip
14:41 Early Years and Medal Journey
19:19 Mentorship and Candid Feedback
23:55 Success Story Flowama
28:03 Pandemic and Program Resilience
29:22 Esperance Healthcare Startup
34:39 Anniversary Plans and Thanks
36:32 Closing and Subscribe
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