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Welcome to the new year of school, and a new year of NeuroTalk! In our first episode of our second season, we speak with Yun Zhang about growing up in science, and learning and behavior in the nematode C.elegans! 

Yun Zhang is an associate professor of biology at Harvard University. 

Note to listeners: we had some connectivity issues while conducting the interview, so the audio quality is not as good in some places.

NeuroTalk S2E1 Yun Zhang

This week, we talk to Diana Bautista about the difference between itch and pain, the curious organ of the star-nosed mole, and more!

Dr. Bautista is an assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology at the University of California at Berkeley. 

NeuroTalk S2E2 DianaBautista

This week we bring you a special report about a scientific sleepover hosted by the California Academy of Science called Penguins & Pajamas! Stanford postdocs from a variety of disciplines presented on their research, and we bring stories from the event, and speak with Mary Cavanagh and Antoine de Morree from the Stanford postdoc association. 

NeuroTalk S2E3 Penguins&Pajamas

Each week SINTN (the Stanford Institute for Neuro-Innovation and Translational Neuroscience) invites a prominent scientist to come to campus and share their most recent work with the Stanford community. For professors, and a few students each week, this is also an opportunity to chat casually with these scientists one-on-one. Our goal with this program is to open that experience up to the broader neuroscience community.

We hope the conversation gives you some insight into the speaker’s personality and provides a platform for the kind of stories of science which are of interest to us but are often are left out of more formal papers or presentations...
how did the scientist really get interested in a subject ?
what are some of the more unexpected challenges they had to overcome?
In essence, it’s a conversation between neuroscientists, for neuroscientists.

This week’s speaker is Alison Doupe, a professor of psychiatry and physiology at the W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Integrative Neuroscience at UCSF.

NeuroTalk Ep1 Allison Doupe

each week SINTN (the Stanford Institute for Neuro-Innovation and Translational Neuroscience) invites a prominent scientist to come to campus and share their most recent work with the Stanford community. For professors, and a few students each week, this is also an opportunity to chat casually with these scientists one-on-one. With the goal of opening that experience up to the broader neuroscience community, we at NeuWrite West (a group dedicated to improving science communication), are launching a new podcast called NeuroTalk. Each week, we will engage the SINTN speaker in an informal interview/conversation, with the aim of gaining a better insight into the speaker’s personality, and providing a platform for the kinds of stories which are of interest to us but are often left out of more formal papers or presentations. In essence, it’s a conversation between neuroscientists, for neuroscientists.

This week’s guest is Dr. Michael Platt, a professor of neurobiology, and the director of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences.

NeuroTalk Ep2MichaelPlatt

In our third episode of NeuroTalk, we speak with professor Evan Eichler about the role of genetic variations in evolution and disease, the journey from the early days of the human genome project to personal genomics, juggling chromosomes, angora sweaters, and more.  Dr. Eichler is a professor of genome sciences at the University of Washington, and is a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator. 

NeuroTalk Ep3EvanEichler

In the fourth episode of NeuroTalk, we talk to Peggy Mason, a professor of Neurobiology at the University of Chicago, about pain, empathy, and sharing your lunch. 


NeuroTalk Ep4 Peggy Mason

This week, we speak with Mark Mayford, a professor of cell biology and neuroscience at the Salk Institute at the University of California at San Diego. 

NeuroTalk Ep6MarkMayford

This week we speak with Albert Lee, a research scientist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Janelia Farms. 

Note to listeners: the SINTN seminar series will be on a two week hiatus for spring break, and will return on April 4 with Glenn Turner from Cold Spring Harbor. We will bring you an interview with Dr. Turner on April 1. 

Neurotalk Ep7AlbertLee

This week we speak with Glenn Turner about the first in vivo whole cell recordings of Drosophila neurons, sparse coding in mushroom body neurons, and how to graduate with a PhD in 4 years. 

Dr. Turner is an Associate Investigator at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. 

Neurotalk Ep8GlennTurner

This week, we talk with Jonathan Wallis about how the brain encodes abstract rules, and translates those rules into behavioral decision making. 

Dr. Wallis is a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. 

NeuroTalk Ep9JonathanWallis

Ron Yu explains the tunotopy of the olfactory system, how mice can determine gender by smelling pheromones in urine, and more! 


Dr. Ron Yu is an Associate Investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research.

NeuroTalk Ep10RonYu

This week, we talk to Yingxi Lin about inhibition, memory, and talking to mice. 

Dr. Yingxi Lin is an assistant professor of neuroscience at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.

Note to listeners: We had some technical difficulties during our interview with Yingxi Lin, so the audio quality is not as good as it should be, and 
some of her answers are a little difficult to understand in a few places.

NeuroTalk Ep11YingxiLin

This week's guest is Dr. Yishi Jin, who tells us how a happy laser accident led to a better understanding of the process of axon regeneration, and how the suppression of science during China's cultural revolution fueled her young scientific curiosity.

Dr. Yishi Jin is a professor of neurobiology, and a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator at UC San Diego.

NeuroTalk Ep12YishiJin

This week on Neurotalk, we talk to Cynthia Moss about her early experience working in a mental institute, the best way to catch a bat, and what bat place cells tell us about our own brains!

Cynthia Moss is a professor of psychology and systems neuroscience at the University of Maryland at College Park. 

To view the bat videos mentioned in the interview, visit Professor Moss's webpage here: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/batlab/movies.html

NeuroTalk Ep13CynthiaMoss

This week on Neurotalk, we talk to Mala Murthy about vengeful flies, courtship songs, and the BRAIN initiative.

Mala Murthy is an assistant professor of molecular biology and neuroscience at Princeton University. 

NeuroTalk Ep14MalaMurthy

"Brains and Bourbon" is a show about cocktails and neuroscience. Each week, we invite a neuroscientist to discuss the process and motivation behind their science, and to share their favorite cocktail with us.

Our first guest is Nick Steinmetz, a 6th year graduate student in Kwabena Boahen and Tirin Moore’s labs here at Stanford, who talks to us about attention and monkeys, and shows us how to make an Old Fashioned cocktail. 
 

You have a brain and you like to drink, so come sit down and have a drink with us.

Brains & Bourbon EP1 Attention:OldFashioned:Nick Steinmetz

"Brains and Bourbon" is a show about cocktails and neuroscience. Each week, we invite a neuroscientist to discuss the process and motivation behind their science, and to share their favorite cocktail with us.

This week, our guest is George Vidal, a 4th year graduate student in Carla Shatz's lab here at Stanford, who talks to us about neuronal plasticity, and the intersection of science and religion, and shares with us his favorite cocktail, green Chartreuse.

This is the SHORT version of the interview, which includes the following sections:

Introducing George Vidal 0:00-1:09
Making green Chartreuse 1:09-3:54
What is neuronal plasticity? 3:54-5:59
Structural plasticity and spine motility 5:59-10:54
The role of PirB on plasticity 10:54-12:53
Not My Field 12:53-16:53
Science and religion, and the future Father Vidal 16:53-23:22
Goodbye and end credits 23:22-24:28

You can listen to the full, 42 minute version of the show here: http://soundcloud.com/neuwritewest/brains-bourbon-ep2plasticity-full

Brains & Bourbon Ep2 Plasticity:Chartreuse:GeorgeVidal SHORT

"Brains and Bourbon" is a show about cocktails and neuroscience. Each week, we invite a neuroscientist to discuss the process and motivation behind their science, and to share their favorite cocktail with us.

This week, our guest is George Vidal, a 4th year graduate student in Carla Shatz's lab here at Stanford, who talks to us about neuronal plasticity, and the intersection of science and religion, and shares with us his favorite cocktail, green Chartreuse. 

This is the FULL version of the interview, which includes the following sections:

Introducing George Vidal 0:00-1:09
Making green Chartreuse 1:09-3:54
What is neuronal plasticity? 3:54-6:08
Structural plasticity and spine motility 6:08-13:30
Are learning, memory, and plasticity the same thing? 13:30-15:52
The role of PirB on plasticity 15:52-17:51
George describes his first experiment 17:51-20:22
Not My Field 20:22-28:25
Science and religion, and the future Father Vidal 28:25-39:30
Goodbye and end credits 39:30-40:10

You can listen to the short, 25 minute version of the show here: http://soundcloud.com/neuwritewest/brains-bourbon-ep2plasticity-short

Brains & Bourbon Ep2 Plasticity:Chartreuse:GeorgeVidal FULL

Our guest this week is Egle Cekanaviciute, a 5th year graduate student in Marion Buckwalter's lab, who teaches us how to make a Sazerac, and talks to us about teaching, neuroinflammation, and brain parasites and zombie mice!

This is the FULL version of the episode, which includes the following sections:

Introducing Egle Cekanaviciute: 0:00-0:38
Making a Sazerac: 0:38-2:45
Early life in Lithuania: 2:45-7:10
Life as an immigrant in the U.S.: 7:10-8:07
Making it work at Harvard: 8:07-10:56
Egle the polymath: 10:56-13:48
Studying shamans in the Amazon: 13:48-17:12
Culturally defined neuroscience?: 17:12-19:09
Shamans in the western cultures: 19:09-21:00
Teaching: 21:00-27:10
Not My Field: 27:10-30:44
Immune response in the brain: 30:44-36:21
Brain parasites and zombie mice: 36:21-41:57
"R" is for "radio": 41:57-43:07
Goodbye and end credits: 43:07-43:50

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