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Neurotalk is a weekly podcast featuring interviews with neuroscientists about the brain. 

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Today, our guest is Dr. Antonello Bonci, Scientific Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, as well as a Senior Investigator within NIDA and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University. In this episode, we will talk about cocaine and Ritalin, new clinical trials using TMS to treat addiction, and ringing in the New Year.

Neurotalk S4E1 Antonello Bonci

Today, our guest is Prof. György Buzsaki, the Biggs Professor of Neuroscience in the Dept. of Neuroscience and Physiology at NYU. In this episode, we will talk about the crucial importance of brain rhythms, the hippocampus and how memories are stored, and Professor Buzsaki’s favorite philosopher.  

Neurotalk S4E3 Gyorgy Buzsaki

Today, our guest is Andrew Huberman, Assistant Professor of Neurosciences at University of California, San Diego. In this episode, we will talk about visual system development, really following your gut interests, and theory of mind in cuttlefish.

Neurotalk S4E6 Andrew Huberman

Today, our guest is Rui Costa,an HHMI investigator at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Portugal. Well be speaking with him about using transgenics to study complex disease, the neural mechanisms underlying habit learning (like piano playing), and keeping cows as pets.

Neurotalk S4E12 Rui Costa

Our guest is Nirao Shah, Associate Professor in the Dept. of Anatomy at UCSF. We speak with him about neural crest stem cells, circuits underlying sexual dimorphism, and his first exposure to research in India. 


Neurotalk S4E14 Nirao Shah

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

"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

Neurotalk, the interview series for Stanford University's week neuroscience seminar, and Brains & Bourbon, a casual cocktails and chat series featuring prominent members of our neuroscience community.