Dr Marc Vidal on Futures in Biotech
I’ve just finished listening to the two-part interview with Dr Marc Vidal at Futures in Biotech and found that amongst other things, he is a great speaker.
I noticed a slight accent in his speech, so I decided to look up “Marc Vidal” at Wikipedia, but found the wrong Marc Vidal…
But getting back to his interview, I noticed that these top researchers are always (or almost) able to explain such complicated things as the interactome or ORFeome to people that no very little about biotechnology or genetics, like one of the podcast interviewers.
Do famous biotech researchers become so due to their ability to express their thoughts or do they acquire this skill set as they are requested to explain their groundbreaking work in interviews and speeches?
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He is Belgium if I am not mistaken. I have seen him in two smallish conferences and he is very much a social guy.
I think in order to be noticed you have to be very good at promoting your ideas. There is a limited attention and a lot of good science so I would guess that those memes (systems, synthetic, interactomes, comparative genomics/interactomics, networks, evo-devo …) get spread in part because there is some sound scientific reasoning behind them but also very much because the people pushing them are well connected and good at meme promotion. So, my opinion is that they have to be good at communicators to get there in the first place.
Yes, indeed from Belgium. So is Denis Wirtz - on an upcoming episode on Nanobiotech. Marc Vidal is one of my favorite scientists, and was on my guest list from day 1.
Cheers