Podcasts by Max Planck Florida’s Neurotransmissions Podcast
Neuroscience stories from the lab and life: By scientists, for everyone. Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI) researchers Ben Scholl, Ph.D., Joe Schumacher, Ph.D., Jeremy Chang, Ph.D, and Misha Smirnov, Ph.D. host Neurotransmissions: an engaging, accessible look inside the neuroscience research world, exploring current research topics and emerging technologies, public health issues in the domain of biomedical science, the intersection between science and society, and unique perspectives and experiences across generations of neuroscientists. Production and communication support by Dr. Helena Decker, Katie Edwards and Kevin Albertini.
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70. Homeostasis in the Body with Yuki Oka from 2022-01-20T20:14:15
Dr. Yuki Oka is an assistant professor at CalTech where his research focuses on understanding the neural and molecular basis of motivated behaviors toward homeostatic regulation. The long-term goal...
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69 - Perception with Hillel Adesnik from 2021-08-27T18:12:23
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 California, Berkley. Together they explore Dr....
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68. Understanding Movement with Mark Churchland from 2021-08-12T19:44:07
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. Dr. Churchland's lab at Columbia University st...
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67 - Deep Learning with Mackenzie Mathis from 2021-07-01T17:32:40
In this episode, Joe and Misha talk to Dr. Mackenzie Mathis about deep learning with artificial neural networks. She takes us through her experience developing computer vision tools like DeepLabCut...
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66- Catching Up on Connectomics with Dr. Jeff Lichtman from 2021-06-03T17:52:34
On this episode of Neurotransmissions, Dr Jeff Lichtman professor of Neuroscience at Harvard University and our guest from the 2nd episode of Neurotransmissions is back to visit during MPFI’s annua...
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65: Career Progression and Auditory Behavior with Dr. David Schneider from 2021-04-30T14:26
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 podcast (Episode 15), he was a postdoctoral fellow...
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64- Cerebellum and Writing with Dr. Indira Raman from 2021-04-16T14:31:26
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. Indira Raman from 2018! Join Joe, Audrey, and Matt as th...
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63 - Dr. Peter Dayan and Computational Neuroscience from 2021-02-23T16:58:41
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 of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybe...
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62 - Dr. Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, NeuroScience Fiction and Conciousness from 2020-12-30T20:52:58
In this episode, Joe and Misha talk to Dr. Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, author of the new book “NeuroScience Fiction” and researcher who famously identified the Jennifer Aniston neuron. They dive into ev...
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61 - Feedforward and Feedback Loops in the Visual System from 2020-12-01T16:29:52
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, Physiology, and Behavior and the University of Davis...
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60 - Black In Neuro With Dr. Kaela Singleton from 2020-10-30T16:23:53
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 president-elect of Black in Neuro. We learn ab...
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59 - The Future of Targeted Therapies for Autism with Dr. Peter Tsai from 2020-06-03T17:38:52
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 Neurotherapeutics, Neuroscience, Pediatrics, an...
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58 - Arc and Intercellular Signaling with Dr. Jason Shepherd from 2020-05-12T21:03:09
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 Neurobiology and Anatomy, Biochemistry and Opthalmology...
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57- Behavioral Time Scale Synaptic Plasticity with Dr. Jeff Magee from 2020-04-24T16:55:54
Cells that fire together wire together. Hebbian mechanisms of plasticity, summarized by that simple phrase, have dominated the field of learning and memory for decades. However, they present limita...
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56: Scientific Funding at the National Science Foundation with Dr. Kurt Thoroughman from 2020-04-07T16:48:52
On the final episode recorded live from the Society for Neuroscience Conference 2019, Jeremy sits down with Dr. Kurt Thoroughman, Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at ...
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55- SfN 2019: NINDS Building Up the Nerve with Dr. Lauren Ullrich from 2020-03-18T19:45:53
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 Program Manager at the National Institute of Ne...
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54- SfN2019: Journal of Neuroscience, Mentorship, & Nicotine Addiction with Dr. Marina Picciotto from 2020-03-05T13:42:58
Our series of interviews at the Society for Neuroscience Conference 2019 in Chicago keeps on rolling as Jeremy sits down with Dr. Marina Picciotto Charles B.G . Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and P...
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53- SfN 2019: Backyard Brains with Drs. Greg Gage and Etienne Serbe from 2020-02-25T18:14:26
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 exciting challenge centered around the SfN conference...
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52 - SfN 2019: Pathways to Graduate School with Tavita Garrett from 2020-02-14T05:02:20
Once again Neurotransmissions traveled to the annual Society for Neuroscience conference to chat with some new and old friends. In the first episode of our five-part miniseries, Misha is joined by ...
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51: (Part Two) Ion Channels and Synapses with Dr. Bert Sakmann from 2020-02-03T21:11:10
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 characterizing ion channels, the finer points of...
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51: Ion Channels and Synapses with Dr. Bert Sakmann from 2020-02-03T21:11:10
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 characterizing ion channels, the finer points of...
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50 (Part One): Building MPFI with Dr. Bert Sakmann from 2020-01-23T15:35:44
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 June 2016, with Dr. Bert Sakmann, Nobel Prize R...
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Ep 49 - Language: Constructing Knowledge Beyond Words with Dr. David Poeppel from 2020-01-02T16:39:35
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 Wernicke's areas. This week Joe and Misha are ...
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48- Electrophysiology and Cell Types with Dr. Bernardo Rudy from 2019-12-13T15:24:35
In this episode, Misha and Andre are joined by Dr. Bernardo Rudy, Valentino D.B. Mazzia, MD, JD Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care, and Pain Medicine and ...
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47: How Visual is the Visual Cortex? with Dr. Nathalie Rochefort from 2019-12-02T20:56:44
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 at the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences at th...
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46: Connectomics with Dr. Moritz Helmstaedter from 2019-11-15T14:45:04
What approaches are researchers taking to understand which neurons talk to each other in the brain? Joe and Misha sit down with Dr. Moritz Helmstaedter, Scientific Director and Head of the Departme...
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45 - Counting Neurons with Dr. Roberto Lent from 2019-10-14T18:08:33
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 Communications, sit down with Dr. Roberto Lent, hea...
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44 - The Human Brain with Pierre Vanderhaeghen from 2019-09-20T16:18:34
Joe and Andre sit down with Dr. Pierre Vanderhaeghen, Group leader at VIB research institute. Learn about what makes the human brain special methods that Dr. Vanderhaeghen's group uses to investiga...
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43- The Brain from Inside Out with Dr. Gyorgy Buzsaki from 2019-09-06T15:47:45
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 explore the types of oscillatory activity that...
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42- A New Zealander in Germany with Dr. Jason Kerr from 2019-08-16T16:28:17
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 Dr. Jason Kerr, Director of the Department of Be...
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41- SFN 2017 Dr. Christine Constantinople and Dr. Matthew Lovett-Baron from 2019-07-26T17:27:45
On our final episode recorded at SfN 2017, Joe sits down with Dr. Christine Constantinople, now Assistant Professor at New York University, to discuss risk-reward learning and starting up a lab. Th...
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40: SFN 2017 Podcast #2 Bridget Queenan from 2019-07-12T15:31:34
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 director of the UCSB Brain Initiative, to chat abo...
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39: SFN 2017 Traumatic Brain Injury with Dr. Mark Burns from 2019-06-27T18:28:53
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 week Misha sat down with Dr. Mark Burns, Assoc...
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38: Associative Learning in the Amygdala with Dr. Andreas Lüthi from 2019-06-04T19:29:15
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 at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedic...
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Episode 37: Synaptic Organizers with Dr. Hisashi Umemori from 2019-05-17T19:13:35
On this episode, Michael is joined by former MPFI Post-Baccalaureate Research Experience (PRE) Fellow Amber Luongo and Dr. Hisashi Umemori, associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical Schoo...
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36: Meditation, Predation, and Octopuses with Dr. Cris Niell from 2019-05-06T15:06:36
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 Dr. Niell is looking at the effects of meditatio...
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35: Wiring up the Brain, Society for Neuroscience, and Graduate School with Dr. Carol Mason from 2019-04-11T18:10:31
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 and Cell Biology, Neuroscience and Ophthalmic Scie...
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34: Nature vs Nurture with Dr. Liqun Luo from 2019-03-29T14:14:39
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 role of genetics and experience in the developm...
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33: The Plastic Brain with Dr. Brenda Bloodgood from 2019-03-14T17:51:38
On this episode of Max Planck Florida's Neurotransmissions Podcast Misha and Paul sit down with Dr. Brenda Bloodgood, assistant professor in the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of...
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Synaptic Plasticity and Cancer in Intellectual Disabilities with Dr. Claudia Bagni from 2019-03-01T16:10:19
On this episode of Max Planck Florida's Neurotransmissions Dr. Paul Evans, former Postdoc in the Yasuda lab and current MPFI Academic Programs Coordinator, and Dr. Audrey Bonnan, Postdoc in the Chr...
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31: Peering into the Fly Brain with Dr. Vivek Jayaraman from 2019-02-08T19:55:29
Sometimes studying smaller, simpler problems can give us valuable insights into larger, more complex ones. On this episode of Max Planck Florida's Neurotransmissions podcast, Joe and Dan Wilson, fo...
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30: Building Brains with Dr. Oscar Marin from 2019-01-24T13:00:13
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. Oscar Marin, Director and Group Leader at the ...
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#29 - Modular Motifs of the Neocortex with Dr. Andreas Burkhalter from 2019-01-04T15:58:42
Join Joe and Misha as they survey the neocortex with Dr. Andreas Burkhalter, Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Washington University. As they discuss Dr. Burkhalter's path from studying visi...
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Episode 28- Interrogating the Cerebellum with Dr. David DiGregorio from 2018-12-21T15:00:45
On this podcast, Misha, Joe, and Matthias sit down with Dr. David DiGregorio, group leader of the Dynamic Neuronal Imaging Laboratory at Institut Pasteur, to discuss the cerebellum. From the cerebe...
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Episode 27: A vision quest with Dr. Michael Stryker from 2018-12-06T22:07:48
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. Michael Stryker, Professor of Physiology at the U...
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#26 Theory Meets Experiment with Dr. Judith Hirsch and Dr. Fritz Sommer from 2018-11-21T17:25:04
Using whole-cell recording techniques, Judith Hirsch investigates how the early visual pathway helps translate the visual world into a coherent perception. Fritz Sommer takes theoretical and comput...
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Episode 25: Breaking the diffraction limit with Dr. Stefan Hell from 2018-11-13T21:07:42
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 Vered sit down with Dr. Stefan Hell to ...
#24 Music to our Ears: Birdsong, Speech, and Neural Circuits with Dr. Rich Mooney from 2018-11-01T18:17:59
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 service of behavior. In a wide ranging intervie...
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#23: Sunposium 2017: Part 3, Natural Behaviors with Drs. Michael Long and David Anderson from 2018-01-19T17:16:43
How neural circuits form the basis of complex natural behaviors is a fundamental question in neuroscience, and from an evolutionary perspective, these circuits enable the survival and reproduction ...
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#22: Sunposium 2017: Part 2, Technological innovation with Drs. Ed Boyden & Viviana Gradinaru from 2018-01-02T16:38:40
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. This is often facilitated by new techniques ...
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#21: The Neural Computation of Space, with Dr. Edvard Moser from 2017-11-29T13:23:26
"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 lives, and the discovery of our brain's internal s...
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#20: Live from Sunposium 2017: Part 1, The Value of Scientific Knowledge with Dr. Thomas Südhof from 2017-09-29T18:05:58
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 biennial scientific meeting featuring talks from many ...
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#19: SfN 2016: Part 4, Neural Circuits for Complex Behaviors from 2017-08-28T18:27:55
Our series of interviews from SfN 2016 concludes with a grand finale! Two fantastic researchers share their experiences studying neural circuits regulating important behaviors. First, Joe sits down...
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#18: Smart cerebellums and career decisions with Dr. Kamran Khodakhah from 2017-08-11T15:42:56
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 Misha, Ben, and first time host Audrey Bonnan lea...
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#17: Science writing and life living with Dr. Brett Mensh from 2017-08-04T17:30:06
In this very special episode, we get to talk with emergency room physician, engineer, neuroscientist, scientific advisor, and person extraordinaire Brett Mensh. As a professional grant writing spec...
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#16: Metabolic Mayhem: Energy Homeostasis with Dr. Jens Bruning from 2017-07-24T22:08:36
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 this episode, Joe is joined by Dr. Jens Bruning, ...
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#15: SfN 2016: Part 3, Sensory-motor Neural Circuits from 2017-05-06T18:45:45
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 coordination of both sensory and motor circuit...
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#14: Neocortex: Organizational and Functional Principles with Dr. Andreas Tolias from 2017-04-21T14:50:28
The neocortex is a hallmark of mammalian brain evolution, and the underlying principles that define cortical circuits have captured the attention of neuroscientists for decades. In this episode, we...
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#13: SfN 2016: Part 2, Beyond the Bench: Exploring Science Careers Outside of the Lab from 2017-04-14T16:31:32
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. Misha talks to Dr. Sofia Jurgensen, senior scient...
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#12: CRISPR/Cas9: A gene editing revolution with Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier from 2017-03-29T15:39:58
In what has been hailed as the discovery of the century, Emmanuelle Charpentier and her colleagues unraveled the molecular machinery of bacterial immune systems and repurposed them into the powerfu...
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#11: SfN 2016: Part 1, Scientific Communication with NPR’s Jon Hamilton from 2017-03-14T22:30:55
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 episode, Joe talks with award-winning NPR corre...
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#10: Epilepsy with Dr. Patrick Forcelli from 2017-01-06T20:54:03
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 different forms of epilepsy, as well as his research...
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#9: Dendrites and Data Sharing with Dr. Karel Svoboda from 2016-10-28T20:41:57
Neurons share information via synapses, but how do scientists? We talk to the distinguished Dr. Karel Svoboda from Janelia Research Campus about his breakthroughs in understanding synapses, proble...
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#8.5: Dr. David Ferster on Writing from 2016-10-25T16:24:55
Welcome to a special mini-episode of Neurotransmissions. After our interview with Dr. Ferster, we had and unexpectedly candid and enlightening conversation about communicating Science. Find out w...
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#8: Visual Computation with Dr. David Ferster from 2016-10-20T12:58:35
The mammalian visual cortex performs important transformations of the information that is transmitted from the eye to the brain. We sit down with Dr. David Ferster, Professor Emeritus from Northwe...
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#7: Get to know your president! - Development, Experience and Plasticity with Dr. Hollis Cline from 2016-07-12T19:04:51
Looking inside the brains of translucent amphibians, Dr. Hollis Cline studies the development and plasticity of the visual system. Join Misha, Joe, and Andre as they get to know more about her rese...
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#6: Biology and Sexism - Equality for Women in Scientific Careers from 2016-06-24T15:14:47
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 investigate this phenomenon, Joe and Misha explore...
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#5: The Hedgehog and the Fox - Connectomics, Part 2 with Dr. Tony Movshon from 2016-05-26T16:09:17
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 perspective is lacking in a connectomics approach tha...
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#4: Neurons, Astronomy and Superman - Adaptive Optics with Dr. Na Ji from 2016-05-04T18:28:11
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 Janelia Research Campus explains how optical tr...
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#3: A Life in Focus: The Journey of Dr. Eric Betzig from 2016-04-14T20:01:58
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 fundamental, physical limit on their resolution. ...
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#2: Connectomics - Unraveling a Society of Cells with Dr. Jeff Lichtman from 2016-03-25T16:30:48
Humans have 10 times more neurons in our brain than there are people on the earth, so how do these billions of cells manage to all work together? Misha, Ben, and Joe sit down with Dr. Jeff Lichtman...
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#1: Basic Science, the Brain, and Going to Mars, with Dr. David Fitzpatrick from 2016-03-18T15:13:31
What is basic science, and how is it significant in the realm of brain research and the future progress of our society? Your hosts Joe, Misha, and Ben sit down with Dr. David Fitzpatrick, Scientifi...
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