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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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57:19

Science summer: The MBL course 'Physio'

Conversations with scientists ·

2025/07/08

Summer courses are not exactly science and chilling but some courses do make it possible to combine the two a little. In this podcast Dr. Daria Ivanova, from the University of Geneva, Dr Sam Lord from University of California San Francisco and Dr. Will Ratcliffe from Georgia Tech talk about the course and how they experienced it as a participant, as a teaching associated and as an instructor.

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45:51

Sneak-peek of the 2024 ISSCR annual meeting

Conversations with scientists ·

2024/12/15

This podcast was uploaded earlier this year but somehow it was deleted, sorry. So it's not quite a sneak-peek anymore...Whether or not you attended the 2024 annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) or not, you might enjoy this conversation. It's with Dr. Amander Clark from the University of California at Los Angeles, she is also the current president of the ISSCR; Dr. Malin Parmar from Lund University and Dr. Agnete Kirkeby from the University of

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53:04

Sneak-peek of ASHG 2024

Conversations with scientists ·

2024/10/26

The annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) is about to start. Here's a sneak-peek of the meeting with Dr. Bruce Gelb who is the current president of ASHG, he is also a researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine in New York City. My co-host --Dr. Mike Fletcher senior editor at Nature Genetics-- and I, asked Bruce Gelb about the meeting but also about some trends such as genetics and inclusion, biobanks, sequencing of the genomes of newborns, exposomics and more.

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37:52

Sneak-peek of the 2024 annual meeting of the Society...

Conversations with scientists ·

2024/09/22

Hear about some of the presentations at the upcoming 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. This sneak-peek that also is ab out some of the latest trends in neuroscience is with Yale University researcher Dr. Marina Picciotto, who is also the president of the Society for Neuroscience and Dr Damien Fair from the University of Minnesota. He is the chair of the Public Education and Communication committee of the Society for Neuroscience.

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45:51

Sneak-peek of the ISSCR annual meeting 2024

Conversations with scientists ·

2024/06/23

Stem cells are intriguing cells with a lot of flexibility in their biographies. And these cells are the focus of the annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, ISSCR. It's happening soon: in July. Here is a sneak-peek of the meeting with the ISSCR leadership: Dr. Amander Clark from the University of California at Los Angeles, she is the current president of the ISSCR. Dr Malin Parmar from Lund University and Dr Agnete Kirkeby from the University of Copenhagen. They

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28:59

A chat with NSF director Dr Sethuraman Panchanathan

Conversations with scientists ·

2024/05/15

This podcast is with Dr Sethuraman Panchanathan who directs the US National Science Foundation. He talks about his nickname, about AI and data science, about training AI models, about transparency, about the language of collaboration, competitiveness, about talent. He says: "I think what we need as a nation is not only to unleash every ounce of talent in our country, the domestic talent, at full force and full scale. And we should welcome and aggregate and retain every ounce of global

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21:31

Science while parenting, part 1

Conversations with scientists ·

2024/04/07

Can you be a scientist and parent? Of course. But it's not always easy. Dr. Ying Diao is at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign is in the chemical and biomolecular engineering department. She has a stack of awards, a lab and two children. She talks about her research, for instance a project focused on wearable electronics for plants, that tracks their growth and well-being. The idea came to her during her pregnancy. She talks about deciding to have children and the reactions of

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51:39

Here’s some dirt

Conversations with scientists ·

2024/03/06

This episode is about dirt or, phrased more scientifically, soil. It’s about soil health, soil biodiversity and ecology. It’s a conversation with Dr. Ciska Veen, soil and ecosystems researcher at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology and Dr. Wim van der Putten, who heads terrestrial ecology at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology. (Art: J. Jackson; Music: Jungle Jam by Evert Z, lcensed from Artlist.io.

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33:02

Persistence and success in science

Conversations with scientists ·

2024/01/02

Jean King, who is the dean of arts and sciences at WPI-Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts, talks about what Nobel Laureate Katalin Karikó means to her and about persistence and success in science. (Art: J. Jackson; Music: Towers by sero, licensed from artlist.io)

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50:29

How to get big projects to soar: Anna Barker, Ellison...

Conversations with scientists ·

2023/11/22

What good does it do to start a big research project? How do you get it to soar? Dr. Anna Barker has some answers about that from the past, the present and the future. She is chief strategy officer at the Ellison Institute, a think tank and research institute. Before that, she was the principal deputy director of the US National Cancer Institute and deputy director for strategic scientific initiatives there. One of her projects is The Cancer Genome Atlas, co-directed with Dr. Francis

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33:22

Sneak-peek of SfN 2023

Conversations with scientists ·

2023/11/08

The Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, a big conference in neuroscience, is about to start. This year, it's in Washington. And here is a sneak peek of the meeting for you. Along with editors at Springer Nature, I got the chance to ask a bit about the meeting before it starts shortly. It was a mash up of a press conference of sorts and a wider discussion with colleagues from Scientific American and from Nature Neuroscience. In this podcast episode, you will hear questions from them and

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47:32

When housing insecurity gets in the way

Conversations with scientists ·

2023/10/31

Science and academia need diversity. Easier said than done because, for example, many students face housing insecurity, which keeps them from a focus on their studies. But that's something students are trying to change. I spoke with current and former students at UC Santa Cruz about this. In this episode you will hear from Abbi Cundall, Natalie Clifford, Emerald Waters, Zennon Ulyate-Crow and Nicolas Robles. (Art: J. Jackson, Music: Nonsense by Raw licensed from artist.io)

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9:39

Lab languages

Conversations with scientists ·

2023/10/18

Labs and a lab's team members often speak many languages. Science is international. But in a lab environment languages can set people apart. I wrote a story about lab languages for Nature Methods here: https://rdcu.be/doPnv There's a blog post here: https://cellmolbiocommunity.springernature.com/posts/podcast-lab-languages . And here is more from that story. It's a conversation with Dr. Denis Wirtz, a cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and

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24:51

Athlete-scientists Part 2

Conversations with scientists ·

2023/06/03

Dr. Liz Bradley, who is on the computer science faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder, is an athlete-scientist. She is a mathematician and a former Olympic rower. In this podcast you will hear about her, about sweeping and sculling, about rugby, why it's good to have a notebook, about data analysis and some pitfalls that can happen in data analysis when you use software analysis but don't know exactly what the tools do and about the importance of whitespace. (Art: J. Jackson, Music

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85:29

Science and the arts

Conversations with scientists ·

2023/05/07

Science and the arts have much to say to one another. This episode is a conversation between scientists and artists, between scientists who foster the arts through fellowships and residencies and artists active in science and people who live in both worlds: science and the arts. All this makes for interesting and sometimes challenging groups of identities. With: London-based artist Charlotte Jarvis, Designer, now medical student Mika Futz, Jean Mary Zarate, editor with Nature Neuroscience,

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21:55

Trees: A conversation with David Neale, University of...

Conversations with scientists ·

2023/04/16

A conversation with David Neale, professor emeritus of the University of California Davis and director of the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation. As a forester and scientist, he works on trees, also the genomics of trees to understand more about their longevity and adaptability to events such as climate change. And he wants to empower the next generation people interested in these questions. (Art: J. Jackson, Music: Break of Dawn / Anthony Vega licensed from artlist.io.)

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21:26

Athlete-scientists Part 1

Conversations with scientists ·

2023/03/17

University of California San Diego researcher Dr. Gene Yeo is an athlete-scientist. He has completed two Iron Man competitions, a number of half Iron Man competitions and both full and half marathons. He says: "On these long long runs and long bike rides, you know, you get the time to sort of zone out a little bit, right. And it helps you focus on, you know, answering some questions." This podcast is about his approach to his sport, how it influences his science, what his sport gives him

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39:35

The push-pull of cells

Conversations with scientists ·

2023/02/19

Cells push things around and get pushed around, it's all in a day's work. Tracking this, such as by tracking actin and the cytoskeleton, takes microscopy and labels. Lifeact, for example, is a popular, widely used label. This conversation is with the Lifeact developers Dr. Michael Sixt from Institute of Science and Technology Austria and Dr. Roland Wedlich-Söldner from the University of Münster in Germany. Among other topics, they talk about how the label came to be, how to use it, what's

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38:14

Long-read sequencing: Steven Salzberg, Johns Hopkins...

Conversations with scientists ·

2023/01/24

Dr. Steven Salzberg is a Johns Hopkins University researcher and director of the Center for Computational Biology at Hopkins. I spoke with him about genomics, about long-read sequencing, about human biology and human diversity, about funding, technology choice, about complete and incomplete genomes, about jobs in bioinformatics. He described his technology choices and about the choices one has to make in small labs. He shared his thoughts about the trend toward pangenomes and graph genomes

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Long-read sequencing: Gordon Sanghera, CEO of Oxford...

Conversations with scientists ·

2023/01/12

When scientists want to know about genes, chances are they use instruments called sequencers. Some of them can generate long-reads, which helps with analyzing genomes. The method of the year according to Nature Methods is: long read-sequencing. For a story I chatted with scientists at companies and in academia about long-read sequencing and did some podcasts, too. This episode is with Dr. Gordon Sanghera, CEO of Oxford Nanopore Technologies. (Art: J. Jackson).The following music was used

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