Jasmine Thompson On How Curiosity Became A Career Plan

We talk with Jasmine Thompson about building a biotech career from the ground up, starting with BioBuilder and expanding into biomedical engineering, lab research, and software engineering. She shares how research habits, teamwork, and communication skills transfer across internships in biotech, pharma, and tech. • early spark for science through school, movies, and staying busy • discovering the BioBuilder apprenticeship and getting first wet lab experience at Ginkgo Bioworks • learning practical lab skills like pipetting, protocols, calculations, and cell culture • creating the Reject Rejections project to address bone marrow transplant rejection using synthetic biology concepts • building research instincts through literature review, experimental design, and thinking through immune pathways • presenting a poster and growing confidence in scientific communication • interning at Blueprint Medicines and measuring drug lipophilicity using lab workflows and UHPLC • joining Amazon via the Amazon Future Engineer scholarship and shipping software engineering work • using research and teamwork habits to handle high-pressure, customer-facing code • adding business and networking skills through the Takeoff Institute fellowship • advice to students on mistakes, curiosity, questions, and saying yes to opportunities If you'd like to learn more about today's conversation with Jasmine, please check out the show notes. Join me for the next Biobuilder Podcast.

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