Max Planck Florida’s Neurotransmissions Podcast

100. The State of Neuroscience Research with MPFI's Scientific Directors

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this 100th and final episode of the MPFI Neurotransmissions Podcast, hosts Joe Schumacher, Lesley Colgan, Jeremy Cheng, and Akash Pal sit down to r...

99. Tools & Technology in Neuroscience with Dr. Tim Harris

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the MPFI Neurotransmissions Podcast, we sit down with the lead engineer behind the widely used Neuropixels Probe, Dr. Tim Harris fr...

98. Brain Circuits Behind Eating Habits With Dr. Mark Andermann

16 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the MPFI Neurotransmissions Podcast, we sit down with Dr. Mark Andermann (@AndermannLab), a renowned neuroscientist at Beth Israel ...

97. Locusts, Cannibalism And Smell with Dr. Bill Hansson

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Prof. Dr. Bill Hansson joins hosts Lesley and Joe to discuss his leadership as former Vice President of the Max Planck Society, his w...

96. Brain Power: Understanding the Brain's Energy Supply and Use with Dr. Tim Ryan

14 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Dr. Tim Ryan joins hosts Lesley and Joe to discuss how neurons rely on a constant source of energy to function. They discuss how the ...

95 Visual Neuroscience Objects & Scenes With Tony Movshon

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Dr. Tony Movshon returns to the podcast to chat with hosts Jeremy and Akash about his work in understanding visual pathways and the d...

94. Perception And Abstraction With Jerry Chen

12 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Max Planck Florida's Neurotransmissions Podcast, we meet new cohost Dr. Akash Pal, who joins Jeremy in a discussion with Associate ...

93. Neuro-Emotional Well-Being with Kuan Hong Wang

15 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of MPFI's Neurotransmissions Lesley and Jeremy speak with Dr. Kuan Hong Wang, Professor at the University of Rochester and Co-Director...

92. Launching a Neuroplasticity Lab in India with Anant Jain

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of MPFI's Neurotransmissions Podcast dives into the fascinating world of neuroplasticity, the brain's ability to change and adapt. We're ...

91. 4D-Cellular Physiology with Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, hosts Lesley and Jeremy speak with Dr. Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Senior Group Leader and Head of Janelia's 4D Cellular Physiology...

Podcast Survey 2024

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Help Shape the Podcast. Visit the link to fill out a survey that will help us better understand our podcast audience, hear your likes and dislikes, an...

90. Mini 2-P Microscopy With Weijian Zong

23 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, hosts Lesley and Joe speak with Dr. Weijian Zong about the motivation, challenges, and advancements behind the development of the MIN...

89. Epigenetics, Astrocytes And Olfaction With Dr. Debosmita Sardar

15 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, hosts Joe and Lesley chat with Dr. Debosmita Sardar about her research into the roles of astrocytes, epigenetics, and serotonylation ...

88. SFN 2023 with Carolyn Rodriguez, Tim Holford, And Alexis Green

21 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this special 2023 Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Lesley discusses the experience of attending the SfN conference for the first time with postbac...

87. Understanding Computational Neuroscience with Rodrigo De Oliveira Pena

30 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, hosts Joe and Lesley chat with Dr. Rodrigo Pena about computational neuroscience and the power of this field to advance our understan...

86. Human-Specific Genes with Ewoud Schmidt

16 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, hosts Joe and Lesley chat with Dr. Ewoud Schmidt about his work in studying neuronal circuit development, function, and behavior and ...

85. The Neuroaesthetics of Music With Daniela Sammler

26 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, hosts Joe and Lesley sit down with Daniela Sammler, a researcher investigating neurocognitive functions related to language and music...

84. Social Competence with Nancy Padilla-Coreano

28 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, hosts Joe and Lesley sit down with Nancy Padilla-Coreano, a Principal Investigator at the University of Florida, to discuss the expan...

83. SFN 2022 Part 2 with Justus Kebschull, Rachel Arey, and Ubadah Sabbagh

14 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this special two-episode conference podcast, Joe brings you scientific highlights from the 2022 Society for Neuroscience Meeting. In Part 2 Joe dis...

82. SFN 2022 Part 1 with Gordon Smith, Won Chan Oh, and Bethany Stanhope

14 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this special two-episode conference podcast, Joe brings you scientific highlights from the 2022 Society for Neuroscience Meeting. In Part 1 Joe cat...

81. Pain and Plasticity With Sang Jeong Kim

01 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Lesley has a chat with Dr. Sang Jeong Kim about his research on the neural mechanisms of pain and plasticity. Dr. Kim is the Director...

80. Neuroscience of Locomotion with Ole Kiehn

17 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Locomotion is a universal motor action expressed as the output of many integrated brain functions, with brainstem circuits acting as the gate between ...

79. Taste by Touch in Octopus with Nicholas Bellono

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, hosts Lesley and Anant chat with Harvard University Assitant Professor, Dr. Nicholas Bellono about studying signal processing and how...

78. Could Sleep be Nature's Time-out? | Giorgio F. Gilestro

12 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sleep is a highly conserved behavior among the animal kingdom, appearing as distant as jellyfish and elephants. It is generally believed that sleep se...

77. Sunposium 2023 with Denise Cai, Ugur Dag, and Sergiu Pasca

15 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, hosts Joe, Lesley, and Jeremy bring you scientific highlights from the recent Sunposium23 conference. They sit down with three of the...

76. Gene Transcription and Its Regulation with Patrick Cramer

15 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, hosts Lesley and Joe chat with the Max Planck Society President-elect, Dr. Patrick Cramer. Dr. Cramer is a chemist and molecular biol...

75. Neural Computation in Flies with Lukas Groschner

17 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, host Joe chats with Dr. Lukas Groschner, a Max Planck NeuroMEETS invited speaker, about his curiosity-driven research into the molecu...

74. The Power of Democratizing Neurotechnologies with Ed Boyden

02 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, hosts Joe and Jeremy catch up with Dr. Ed Boyden on the many applications of his neurotechnologies such as optogenetics and expansion...

73. The Role of a Dopamine System in Decision Making with Erin Calipari

11 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, hosts Joe Schumacher and Anant Jain chat with award-winning research scientist, educator, and advocate Erin Calipari about a new role...

72. New Techniques for 3D Optogenetics with Valentina Emiliani

26 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, hosts Jeremy and Ingo chat with Dr. Valentina Emiliani. Dr. Emiliani's lab has pioneered the use of wave-front shaping for neuroscien...

71. Dopamine in the Brain with Stephen Lammel

30 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, hosts Misha and Ingo chat with Dr. Stephen Lammel. Dr. Lammel’s lab at UC Berkley explores the circuitry behind neuropsychiatric di...

70. Homeostasis in the Body with Yuki Oka

20 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Yuki Oka is an assistant professor at CalTech where his research focuses on understanding the neural and molecular basis of motivated behaviors to...

69 - Perception with Hillel Adesnik

27 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Jeremy and Joe talk with Dr. Hillel Adesnik, Associate Professor at the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of...

68. Understanding Movement with Mark Churchland

12 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Dr. Mark Churchland talks with MPFI postdocs Jeremy Chang and Alex Gribizis about his research into the function of the motor cortex....

67 - Deep Learning with Mackenzie Mathis

01 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Joe and Misha talk to Dr. Mackenzie Mathis about deep learning with artificial neural networks. She takes us through her experience d...

66- Catching Up on Connectomics with Dr. Jeff Lichtman

03 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of Neurotransmissions, Dr Jeff Lichtman professor of Neuroscience at Harvard University and our guest from the 2nd episode of Neurotra...

65: Career Progression and Auditory Behavior with Dr. David Schneider

30 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On this career-focused episode Joe, Audrey, and Jeremy catch up with friend of the podcast Dr. David Schneider. When Dr. Schneider was last on the pod...

64- Cerebellum and Writing with Dr. Indira Raman

16 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As they say, “Better late than never!”. We've been digging back into our archive and found this once thought to be a lost interview with Dr. Indir...

63 - Dr. Peter Dayan and Computational Neuroscience

23 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How can quantitative methods help us understand how the brain works? On this episode Joe, Jeremy, and Alex are joined by Dr. Peter Dayan the director ...

62 - Dr. Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, NeuroScience Fiction and Conciousness

30 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Joe and Misha talk to Dr. Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, author of the new book “NeuroScience Fiction” and researcher who famously identi...

61 - Feedforward and Feedback Loops in the Visual System

01 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode Jeremy and new guest co-host Alex Gribizis chat with Dr. W. Martin Usrey, Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurobiology, Physi...

60 - Black In Neuro With Dr. Kaela Singleton

30 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Joe and Misha talk with Kaela Singleton, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Cell Biology at Emory University and co-founder and...

59 - The Future of Targeted Therapies for Autism with Dr. Peter Tsai

03 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How does the clinic influence the bench? Joe, Jeremy, and Audrey are joined by Dr. Peter Tsai Assistant Professor in the departments of Neurology and ...

58 - Arc and Intercellular Signaling with Dr. Jason Shepherd

12 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How did an ancient virus help shape the human brain? In this episode, Joe and Jeremy sit down with Dr. Jason Shepherd, Assistant Professor of Neurobio...

57- Behavioral Time Scale Synaptic Plasticity with Dr. Jeff Magee

24 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Cells that fire together wire together. Hebbian mechanisms of plasticity, summarized by that simple phrase, have dominated the field of learning and m...

56: Scientific Funding at the National Science Foundation with Dr. Kurt Thoroughman

07 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On the final episode recorded live from the Society for Neuroscience Conference 2019, Jeremy sits down with Dr. Kurt Thoroughman, Associate Professor ...

55- SfN 2019: NINDS Building Up the Nerve with Dr. Lauren Ullrich

18 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

At the 2019 Society for Neuroscience Conference in Chicago Misha catches up with an old friend of the podcast Dr. Lauren Ullrich (Ep #13), Scientific ...

54- SfN2019: Journal of Neuroscience, Mentorship, & Nicotine Addiction with Dr. Marina Picciotto

05 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Our series of interviews at the Society for Neuroscience Conference 2019 in Chicago keeps on rolling as Jeremy sits down with Dr. Marina Picciotto Cha...

53- SfN 2019: Backyard Brains with Drs. Greg Gage and Etienne Serbe

25 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The neuro-revolution is coming. In this episode Jeremy sits down with Drs. Greg Gage and Etienne Serbe in Chicago from Backyard Brains. From an exciti...

52 - SfN 2019: Pathways to Graduate School with Tavita Garrett

14 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Once again Neurotransmissions traveled to the annual Society for Neuroscience conference to chat with some new and old friends. In the first episode o...

51: (Part Two) Ion Channels and Synapses with Dr. Bert Sakmann

03 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Our two-part series of interviews with Dr. Bert Sakmann continues as he explains to Joe and Misha how he got interested in neuroscience, his work on c...

50 (Part One): Building MPFI with Dr. Bert Sakmann

23 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How does a Max Planck Institute end up in Florida? On this special 50th episode we have the first part of a two-part series of interviews recorded in ...

Ep 49 - Language: Constructing Knowledge Beyond Words with Dr. David Poeppel

02 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How does language get processed in the brain? New research is taking our understanding of how the brain processes language and speech beyond Broca and...

48- Electrophysiology and Cell Types with Dr. Bernardo Rudy

13 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Misha and Andre are joined by Dr. Bernardo Rudy, Valentino D.B. Mazzia, MD, JD Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiol...

47: How Visual is the Visual Cortex? with Dr. Nathalie Rochefort

02 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How visual is the visual cortex? In this episode, Joe and Jeremy are joined by Dr. Nathalie Rochefort, Sir Henry Dale Fellow and Chancellor's Fellow a...

46: Connectomics with Dr. Moritz Helmstaedter

15 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What approaches are researchers taking to understand which neurons talk to each other in the brain? Joe and Misha sit down with Dr. Moritz Helmstaedte...

45 - Counting Neurons with Dr. Roberto Lent

14 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We dug up another episode from our archive for you to enjoy this week. Misha, Joe, and guest co-host Dr. Helena Decker, MPFI's Head of Scientific Comm...

44 - The Human Brain with Pierre Vanderhaeghen

20 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Joe and Andre sit down with Dr. Pierre Vanderhaeghen, Group leader at VIB research institute. Learn about what makes the human brain special methods t...

43- The Brain from Inside Out with Dr. Gyorgy Buzsaki

06 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode Joe and first time co-host Jeremy Chang sit down with Dr. Gyorgy Buzsaki, Biggs Professor of Neuroscience at New York University. They...

42- A New Zealander in Germany with Dr. Jason Kerr

16 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, we returned to our vault and found this March 2016 discussion (our first recording ever!), where Joe, Misha, and Ben were joined by D...

41- SFN 2017 Dr. Christine Constantinople and Dr. Matthew Lovett-Baron

26 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On our final episode recorded at SfN 2017, Joe sits down with Dr. Christine Constantinople, now Assistant Professor at New York University, to discuss...

40: SFN 2017 Podcast #2 Bridget Queenan

12 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Our series of in the field recordings from SfN 2017 continues as Misha gets a chance to catch up again with Dr. BN Queenan (Episode 13), associate dir...

39: SFN 2017 Traumatic Brain Injury with Dr. Mark Burns

27 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Once again the podcast hit to road to meet up with new and old friends to talk all things neuroscience at the 2017 SfN meeting in Washington D.C. This...

38: Associative Learning in the Amygdala with Dr. Andreas Lüthi

04 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How do you learn the appropriate response to a fear-inducing stimulus? Misha and Andre are joined on this episode by Dr. Andreas Lüthi, Group Leader ...

Episode 37: Synaptic Organizers with Dr. Hisashi Umemori

17 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, Michael is joined by former MPFI Post-Baccalaureate Research Experience (PRE) Fellow Amber Luongo and Dr. Hisashi Umemori, associate ...

36: Meditation, Predation, and Octopuses with Dr. Cris Niell

06 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, Joe and Misha are joined by Dr. Cris Niell, Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Oregon. Learn how D...

35: Wiring up the Brain, Society for Neuroscience, and Graduate School with Dr. Carol Mason

11 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode we’re digging back into the vault to a Spring 2016 conversation Joe, Misha, and Ben had with Dr Carol Mason Professor of Pathology a...

34: Nature vs Nurture with Dr. Liqun Luo

29 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What is it that defines us, nature or nurture? Michael and Andre sit down with Liqun Luo, Professor of Biology at Stanford University, to discuss the ...

33: The Plastic Brain with Dr. Brenda Bloodgood

14 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of Max Planck Florida's Neurotransmissions Podcast Misha and Paul sit down with Dr. Brenda Bloodgood, assistant professor in the Divis...

Synaptic Plasticity and Cancer in Intellectual Disabilities with Dr. Claudia Bagni

01 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of Max Planck Florida's Neurotransmissions Dr. Paul Evans, former Postdoc in the Yasuda lab and current MPFI Academic Programs Coordin...

31: Peering into the Fly Brain with Dr. Vivek Jayaraman

08 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes studying smaller, simpler problems can give us valuable insights into larger, more complex ones. On this episode of Max Planck Florida's Neu...

30: Building Brains with Dr. Oscar Marin

24 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Can investigating how the neocortex is built further our understanding of the function of the brain? Join Michael and Andre as they sit down with Dr....

#29 - Modular Motifs of the Neocortex with Dr. Andreas Burkhalter

04 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Join Joe and Misha as they survey the neocortex with Dr. Andreas Burkhalter, Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Washington University. As they d...

Episode 28- Interrogating the Cerebellum with Dr. David DiGregorio

21 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On this podcast, Misha, Joe, and Matthias sit down with Dr. David DiGregorio, group leader of the Dynamic Neuronal Imaging Laboratory at Institut Past...

Episode 27: A vision quest with Dr. Michael Stryker

06 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How does an aspiring poet become one of the pioneers of new model systems for studying the visual cortex? Find out as Joe and Ben sit down with Dr. Mi...

#26 Theory Meets Experiment with Dr. Judith Hirsch and Dr. Fritz Sommer

21 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Using whole-cell recording techniques, Judith Hirsch investigates how the early visual pathway helps translate the visual world into a coherent percep...

Episode 25: Breaking the diffraction limit with Dr. Stefan Hell

13 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 25: Breaking the diffraction limit with Dr. Stefan Hell How does one go about breaking the laws of physics? On this podcast, Joe, Misha, and ...

#24 Music to our Ears: Birdsong, Speech, and Neural Circuits with Dr. Rich Mooney

01 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Driven by a lifelong love of music, Rich Mooney's career as a neuroscientist focuses on the circuits that integrate sensory and motor signals in the s...

#23: Sunposium 2017: Part 3, Natural Behaviors with Drs. Michael Long and David Anderson

19 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How neural circuits form the basis of complex natural behaviors is a fundamental question in neuroscience, and from an evolutionary perspective, these...

#22: Sunposium 2017: Part 2, Technological innovation with Drs. Ed Boyden & Viviana Gradinaru

02 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

To advance our understanding of the nervous system, we need to know how to ask the right questions about the structure and function of neural circuits...

#21: The Neural Computation of Space, with Dr. Edvard Moser

29 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

"Where are we and where are we going?" Our sense of where we are in the world is one of the most fundamental cognitive elements of our day-to-day liv...

#20: Live from Sunposium 2017: Part 1, The Value of Scientific Knowledge with Dr. Thomas Südhof

29 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Live from West Palm Beach, it's Sunposium 2017! Here is Part 1 in a series of conversations we had at MPFI's Sunposium Conference, which is a biennia...

#19: SfN 2016: Part 4, Neural Circuits for Complex Behaviors

28 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Our series of interviews from SfN 2016 concludes with a grand finale! Two fantastic researchers share their experiences studying neural circuits regul...

#18: Smart cerebellums and career decisions with Dr. Kamran Khodakhah

11 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve heard that an injured cerebellum can make you uncoordinated, but can it also make you mean? Listen to an awesome and engaging interview where ...

#17: Science writing and life living with Dr. Brett Mensh

04 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this very special episode, we get to talk with emergency room physician, engineer, neuroscientist, scientific advisor, and person extraordinaire Br...

#16: Metabolic Mayhem: Energy Homeostasis with Dr. Jens Bruning

24 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Everything we do requires energy, so it's not surprising that our brains are wired to regulate how we acquire and use that energy for survival. In th...

#15: SfN 2016: Part 3, Sensory-motor Neural Circuits

06 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Whether you're navigating through a forest, hunting prey, avoiding predators, or listening to a podcast in the gym, behaviors in the world require the...

#14: Neocortex: Organizational and Functional Principles with Dr. Andreas Tolias

21 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The neocortex is a hallmark of mammalian brain evolution, and the underlying principles that define cortical circuits have captured the attention of n...

#13: SfN 2016: Part 2, Beyond the Bench: Exploring Science Careers Outside of the Lab

14 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

For the second installment of our on-the-floor recording from SfN, we find out about some lesser-known opportunities and careers available to PhDs. Mi...

#12: CRISPR/Cas9: A gene editing revolution with Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier

29 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In what has been hailed as the discovery of the century, Emmanuelle Charpentier and her colleagues unraveled the molecular machinery of bacterial immu...

#11: SfN 2016: Part 1, Scientific Communication with NPR’s Jon Hamilton

14 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The podcast hit the road to San Diego for the annual SfN meeting and met up with new and old friends to talk all things neuroscience. In this weeks e...

#10: Epilepsy with Dr. Patrick Forcelli

06 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Epilepsy is a complex group of disorders with a diverse set of causes. We sit down with Georgetown University's Dr. Patrick Forcelli to discuss diffe...

#9: Dendrites and Data Sharing with Dr. Karel Svoboda

28 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Neurons share information via synapses, but how do scientists? We talk to the distinguished Dr. Karel Svoboda from Janelia Research Campus about his ...

#8.5: Dr. David Ferster on Writing

25 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to a special mini-episode of Neurotransmissions. After our interview with Dr. Ferster, we had and unexpectedly candid and enlightening conver...

#8: Visual Computation with Dr. David Ferster

20 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The mammalian visual cortex performs important transformations of the information that is transmitted from the eye to the brain. We sit down with Dr....

#7: Get to know your president! - Development, Experience and Plasticity with Dr. Hollis Cline

12 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Looking inside the brains of translucent amphibians, Dr. Hollis Cline studies the development and plasticity of the visual system. Join Misha, Joe, an...

#6: Biology and Sexism - Equality for Women in Scientific Careers

24 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Women are awarded over half of all doctorate degrees in the life sciences, but account for a small fraction of high-ranking academic positions. To in...

#5: The Hedgehog and the Fox - Connectomics, Part 2 with Dr. Tony Movshon

26 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What can we learn from studying the vast complexity of wiring in the brain? In this week's episode, Professor Movshon explains why a functional perspe...

#4: Neurons, Astronomy and Superman - Adaptive Optics with Dr. Na Ji

04 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How do neuroscientists see through layers of grey matter to produce images of cells that are deeply embedded in living brains? Dr. Na Ji from HHMI's ...

#3: A Life in Focus: The Journey of Dr. Eric Betzig

14 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

From Cornell to Bell Labs and beyond, Eric Betzig spent an entire career trying to see the unseeable. The optics of conventional microscopes face a fu...