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Joseph Herdy talks zombie cells, selfish genes, and Alzheimer's disease
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While you might not appreciate a shipment of live, wriggling lamprey, Joseph Herdy, PhD, will tell you the parasitic fish can actually teach us quite ...
Salk Institute: Live "Beyond Lab Walls" podcast episode
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On October 30, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. PT/12:00 p.m. ET, the Salk Institute holds a special live, video edition of our Beyond Lab Walls podcast as we exp...
Tony Hunter enters the archives to share 50 years of Salk stories and cancer discoveries
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Hunter, PhD, is a cancer biologist, professor, and holder of the Renato Dulbecco Chair at Salk. 2025 marks Hunter's 50th year at the Institute—...
Aksinya Derevyanko talks creative ties between dance and neuroscience
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Aksinya Derevyanko is a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Nicola Allen's lab at Salk. For Derevyanko, recounting her journey from Russia to Spain t...
John Reynolds on how our brains can play tricks on us
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is my place in the universe? This question began Professor John Reynolds' introspective and philosophical journey into the world of neuroscience...
Joseph Swift says we're more like plants than we think
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph Swift is a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Joseph Ecker's lab at Salk, but has recently launched his own start-up called CropDiagnostix. I...
Jeff Jones shares what we can learn from jellyfish about human aging
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Jones is a staff scientist in the lab of Professor Rusty Gage. Jones' journey to science started on a dirt road in Florida and with a slew of que...
Irene Lopéz Gutiérrez advocates for interdisciplinary Alzheimer's research
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Beginning as a spark stirred by rainy day boredom in Galicia, Spain and encouraged by wanting to understand her grandfather's brain tumor, Irene Lopé...
Getting to the root of Alzheimer's
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Things are changing in Alzheimer's research. We've got new tools and new ideas, and we want you to know about them. To kick off Salk's "Year of Alzhei...
Kay Watt is harnessing plants to save the planet
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kay Watt was not a scientist when she arrived in the remote jungles of Panama, assigned to help coffee farmers protect their plants from environmental...
Daniel Hollern on B cells and breast cancer
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"What are the things that cause cancer in people? Can we prevent cancer?" These are the questions Assistant Professor Daniel Hollern is asking in his ...
Lara Labarta-Bajo explains how infections affect your brain
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can an infection in your lungs have such a lasting effect on your brain? Lara Labarta-Bajo, a postdoctoral researcher in Associate Professor Nicol...
Jesse Dixon talks DNA loops and six-toed cats
10 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know each of your cells contains a six-foot-long strand of DNA? In a miraculous feat of molecular origami, your genome can fold itself into a ...
Jake Minich looks to the sea to solve food scarcity on land
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jake Minich is a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Research Professor Todd Michael. Minich had a long and winding journey to Salk, crossing contin...
Laura Mainz on stopping cancer before it starts
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Mainz is a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Professor Jan Karlseder. Always curious about the human body, her father's cancer diagnosis ins...
Pamela Maher lets us in on plants' medicinal secrets
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the first year of her new life attending university in Montréal, Research Professor Pamela Maher made a fateful switch from political science to t...
Talmo Pereira is using AI to understand movement
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Salk Fellow Talmo Pereira first learned to code in his hometown in Brazil as a way to improve his video gaming. His lab now uses artificial intelligen...
Natanella Illouz-Eliaz explores how plants survive droughts
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Natanella Illouz-Eliaz is a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Professor Joseph Ecker. A plant biologist by training, she studies how plants recove...