In this episode, Lawton will be interviewing Dr. Carl Denard and a Ph.D. candidate from his lab, Sam Martinusen. We talk about the research conducted in professor Denard's lab at the University of Florida as well as speculate as to what the field of synthetic biology may look like in the near future. In addition to talking about the research conducted in the Denard Lab, we talk about the pressing issues affecting underprivileged communities in regard to their exposure to the STEM field.