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Conversations with scientists

Scientists talk about what they do and why they do what they do. Their motivations, their trajectory, their setbacks, their achievements. They offer their personal take on science, mentoring and the many aspects that have shaped their work and their lives. Hosted by journalist Vivien Marx. Her work has appeared in Nature journals, Science, The Economist, The NY Times, The Wall Street Journal Europe and New Scientist among others. (Art: Justin Jackson)

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Not lost in space Episode #1

Conversations with scientists ·

2021/08/08

This podcast is about two scientists, Dr. Patrik Ståhl and Dr. Fredrik Salmén, who are joint first authors of a paper that kickstarted a field. It's about finding work they did with colleagues to enable finding out where in tissue gene expressions is happening. It's called spatially resolved transcriptomics. It is a Nature Methods Method of the Year and I did a story about it here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-020-01033-y . This is a podcast series that shares more of what I found

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27:30

Hello brittlestar

Conversations with scientists ·

2021/07/01

Marine echinoderms speak to developmental biologist Dr. Paola Oliveri at University College London for many reasons. Their evolution of a novel body plan is one of them. In a conversation she talks about teaching evolution, her training, her students and her love of science.

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32:44

Long-COVID Part 3: A chat with Terina Martinez

Conversations with scientists ·

2021/04/28

COVID-19 has been bad. Many, likely millions of people, who have survived their COVID-battle, face a difficult array of symptoms. Breathing problems, joint pain, heart palpitations, brain fog are a few of them. This is part 3 of a three-part podcast series on long-COVID. This episode is a conversation with Dr. Terina Martinez, a field application scientist at Taconic Biosciences, which develops and sells mouse models. She talks about the challenges and possibilities of modeling long-COVID

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36:33

Long-COVID Part 1: A chat with Nadia Rosenthal

Conversations with scientists ·

2021/04/28

COVID-19 has been bad. Many, likely millions of people, who have survived their COVID-battle, face a difficult array of symptoms. Breathing problems, joint pain, heart palpitations, brain fog are a few of them. This is part 1 of a three-part podcast series on long-COVID. You can also find my piece in Nature Methods on long-COVID here. Dr. Nadia Rosenthal, who directs science at the Jackson Laboratory, and her team are working on ways to model this diversity of symptoms, which can help

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19:17

Long-COVID Part 2: A chat with Avi Nath

Conversations with scientists ·

2021/04/28

Around the world, COVID-19 has been awful. Many, likely millions of people, who have survived their COVID-battle, face a difficult array of symptoms. Breathing problems, joint pain, heart palpitations, brain fog are a few of them. This is part 2 of a three-part podcast series on long-COVID. This episode focuses on brain fog, one of the difficult symptoms of long-COVID. It's a conversation with neuroimmunologist Dr. Avi Nath, who is intramural clinical director of the National Institute for

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27:05

A chat with with Na Ji

Conversations with scientists ·

2020/11/13

She's driven by curiosity. Na Ji is a physicist and neuroscientist at University of California, Berkeley. She develops ways to study the brain and she reads voraciously. She seeks to capture the signals that neurons pass to another with imaging and in multiple brain regions. She also teaches a class for people interested in physics. She calls it 'Physics for Modern Citizens.

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57:22

Bye-Bye Bunny

Conversations with scientists ·

2020/08/06

This episode of Conversations with ..Scientists--Bye-Bye Bunny-- is about research into diseases such as COVID-19 and neurological diseases, too. It's about the antibodies in our bodies. And it's about research antibodies. And it explores the possibility of perhaps generating and producing research antibodies without the use of animals. It includes Dr. Alison Gray from Afability and the University of Nottingham, Dr. Katie Crosby from Cell Signaling Technology, Dr. Alejandra Solache from

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27:45

Computational pipelines: to build and maintain them

Conversations with scientists ·

2020/06/27

Pipelines are basically a series of steps. Algorithms are linked to one another, the output of one algorithm is the input to another. Pipelines can be simple and pretty complex. And maintenance of pipelines also ranges from simple to complex. They can run like a dream, they can get stuck, they can break. To talk about trends in this area, I sat down, virtually that is, with two scientists at DNAnexus: John Ellithorpe who is DNAnexus executive vice president and chief product officer and

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Sneak peak of AACR II 2020

Conversations with scientists ·

2020/06/22

Part I of the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research—it was all virtual—had 61,000 attendees. Part II is about to start. Here’s a sneak peek about the meeting, its hundreds of talks and thousands of posters. Virtual conferences mean less of a carbon footprint, maybe a broader reach and a chance for attendees who cannot typically travel to AACR to attend virtually. Commenting on AACR II and about virtual conferences more generally: Dr. Elaine Mardis: the current

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14:24

Job-hunting at ‘ACCR.’

Conversations with scientists ·

2020/06/22

Part I of the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research was all virtual. There were 61,000 attendees, including some job-hunters. I wonder how this year’s conference that is about to get underway will affect job-hunting. This episode is with scientists talking about their hopes and allergic points as they job-hunt. It’s based on conversations with job-hunters last year and this year. The guests on this episode are: Dr. Antonio Ward of the University of South Alabama,

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9:31

A chat with Hui Yang

Conversations with scientists ·

2020/06/07

Today’s episode is with and about Hui Yang. Dr. Yang is a researcher at the Institute of Neuroscience at Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, which is part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has developed new base-editor variants. Base-editing is a kind of gene-editing. Overall the result led to base-editors with fewer off-targets, high on-target efficiency and a narrowed editing window, fewer indels and fewer off-targets, he says. Yang sees a lot of promise for these base

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11:13

A chat with Carol Robinson

Conversations with scientists ·

2020/05/03

Proteins in a cell don't tend to practice social distancing. They have many associates but capturing all of the associates in one experiment is difficult. Dr. Carol Robinson and her team developed a way to be able to dissociate such complexes in a mass spectrometer and look at them in one experiment. It's a new kind of mass spectrometer and one she and her team co-developed with Thermo Fisher Scientific. Robinson is the first female professor of the University of Oxford, previously the

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