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E113 Kat Bruce: Turning Nature into Data

Founder of NatureMetrics and a pioneering force in the emerging field of nature tech - Kat Bruce’s journey is anything but conventional—from studying tropical ecology in the depths of the Amazon rainforest to navigating the challenges of launching a cutting-edge company that uses DNA sequencing to transform how we monitor biodiversity worldwide.

Kat shares the story of how next-generation sequencing revolutionised environmental science, enabling her team to decode entire ecosystems from a single environmental sample. She reflects on the early skepticism she faced, the technical hurdles…

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