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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

621 - Shawn Kubli (Immunologist/Cancer Researcher)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Shawn Kubli is an American immunologist and surfer, currently land-locked in Toronto, Ontario. Working in the biotech industry for Treadwell Therapeutics, his research group develops living drugs – cell therapy – that harness the intrinsic power of the immune system to fight cancer. Shawn’s academic background in evolutionary genetics and ecology shape …

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Rade humano papachango. Oh, Cancer is really a genetic disease that it's constantly evolving and the tumor micro environment is really chaotic and complex and it's kind of like an ecosystem of cells so I have a totally different frame of reference which I think you know most in cellular immunology don't

0:47.4

really appreciate. My guess this week is Sean Kubli, fascinating dude.

0:54.0

One of the coolest things about having a podcast, and I hope one of the coolest things about listening to this podcast in particular, and podcasts to be fair and honest is that you

1:09.2

get to hang out with someone who's an expert in their field and you get to just sort of, you know, pick their

1:17.7

brains a little bit and this guy's got a lot of brain to pick. He's fascinating guys. I said he's I met him at the

1:26.3

Budakon retreat. He was there doing a teacher training I guess and it was after our Sex of Dawn retreat and we

1:38.6

hung out and one day I gave a talk to the new people who had shown up and I was talking about this genetic study

1:49.3

done by Klaus Vedicand in Switzerland all about women picking up information about men's immune

1:56.5

systems from the way they smell the sort of you know what the the content of pheromones is that's picked up subconsciously and how that relates to

2:08.4

dating and attraction and so on and so forth.

2:11.7

And this is stuff I've talked about many times in many

2:13.8

interviews and presentations and you know they're probably 30 people there and

2:20.8

I see this guy sort of in the back, this quiet guy, he kind of says, he raises his hand and he says,

2:28.0

well, the way you describe that, it's not 100% accurate. And I thought oh fuck here we go worst-case

2:37.2

scenario right and I you know if he was just gonna bust my balls a little bit or what you know if he was just going to bust my balls a little bit or what, you know, if this was an ego thing or what was going on.

2:46.8

But anyway, he went on and he explained that, you know, I think the way I had described it was that the women were attracted to men whose immune systems

2:59.0

compensated for the woman's deficiencies in her immune system and he pointed out that actually

3:06.7

it's that the women are attracted to men who had very sort of non homogeneous that their immune system was very different from the

3:19.4

women's and so it's the same concept that there was this compensatory,

3:24.0

complementary kind of mechanism, but he wanted to point out

3:29.3

that I had misphrased it a little bit.

3:31.6

And by the end of listening know listening to him talk I realized like oh okay this guy he's not busting my balls he's just really into accuracy and

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