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Epistimones
by Paco Chow and Megan Lee
Conversations with experts about their work in neuroscience, synthetic biology, mathematics, and various other academic fields to make science accessible to everyone.Follow us on Twitter @EpistimonesPod
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#30 – Armin Lak: Dopaminergic circuits in decision making
Armin Lak is a neuroscientist and is a Sir Henry Dale Fellow at the University of Oxford, studying the neuronal circuits that govern learning and decision making. In particular, his research focuses on the role of dopaminergic neurons in different types of decision making through a combination of...
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#29 – Chaitanya Gokhale: Theoretical eco-evolutionary dynamics
Chaitanya Gokhale is a research group leader in theoretical eco-evolutionary dynamics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology. His lab uses theoretical biology to elucidate the associations and interactions that power emergent complexity at multiple scales. TIMESTAMPS (00:35) –…
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#28 – Oriel FeldmanHall: Studying morality in the brain
Oriel FeldmanHall is the Alfred Manning Associate Professor of Cognitive, Linguistics and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. Her research focuses on studying the neural basis of moral decision making, altruism, and socio-emotional decision making. Specifically, she uses techniques from...
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#27 – Adam Packer: Simultaneous manipulation and recording of neural activity with light
Adam Packer is a neuroscientist and a Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellow at the University of Oxford. He has helped pioneered all-optical interrogation techniques that allow simultaneous manipulation and recording of neural circuit activity with cellular resolution in vivo, and his research...
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#26 – Christopher McFarland: Cancer evolution
Christopher McFarland is an Assistant Professor in Genetics and Genome Science at Case Western Reserve University. His lab integrates evolutionary theory with quantitative experimentation to better understand tumour biology. TIMESTAMPS (00:28) – Relevance of evolution to cancer (03:00) – Genome...
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#25 – Will Ratcliff: Multicellularity and social evolution
Will Ratcliff is an Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech. His lab combines mathematical modelling, synthetic biology and experimental evolution, in particular long term evolution experiments (LTEEs), to study the evolution of multicellularity and the spatial...
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#24 – Tristram Wyatt: Our unique odour world
Tristram Wyatt is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford and an emeritus fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. His research focuses on the evolution of pheromones, these chemical signals transmitted between animals of the same species, influencing social...
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#23 – Greg Pask: Decoding the chemical language of ants
Greg Pask is an insect neurobiologist at Middlebury College studying how insects use smell to communicate with each other. In particular, his research focuses on using a range of techniques in molecular biology, genetics, electrophysiology and animal behaviour to understand the mechanisms by…
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#22 – Lisa Monteggia: Ketamine and the neurobiology of antidepressants
Lisa Monteggia is the Barlow Family Director of the Vanderbilt Brain Institute and Professor of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University. Her research focuses on the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying psychiatric disorders like depression, uncovering the mechanisms by which traditional...
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#21 – Elizabeth Bonawitz: How children learn about the world
Elizabeth Bonawitz is the David J. Vitale Associate Professor of Learning Sciences at Harvard University, studying the psychological and computational mechanisms underlying the learning of causal beliefs. In particular, her research combines cognitive development experiments with computational...
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#20 – Jose Jimenez: Quantum biology, cell economics and synthetic biology
Jose Jimenez is a Senior Lecturer in Synthetic Biology at Imperial College London, whose research occurs at the interface of synthetic biology and evolution. His lab is interested in how evolution shapes the properties of proteins exhibiting quantum mechanisms, cell economics, and the dynamics of...
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#19 – Ian Maze: Serotonin and the epigenetics of depression
Ian Maze is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacological Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His research involves studying the chromatin-based mechanisms of adult cognitive and psychiatric disorders like addiction and major...
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#18 – Jenny Saffran: How babies learn language
Jenny Saffran is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying how infants use statistical learning – the detection of pattern and regularities in the environment, to learn about the structure of language. Language learning is a highly complex problem and is not a...
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#17 – Irene Tracey: Perceiving pain
Irene Tracey is a neuroscientist at the University of Oxford, using neuroimaging tools to study the neurobiological mechanisms of pain perception in acute and chronic pain, as well how states of consciousness are altered with anaesthetics. Until recently, she held the Nuffield Chair of…
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#16 – Kent Berridge: Dopamine, desire and pleasure
Kent Berridge is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Michigan, studying the neurobiology and brain systems underlying psychological processes like motivation, pleasure, craving, and addiction. His research has shown a dissociation between reward liking…
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#15 – Juan Caicedo: Deep learning algorithms for cell imaging
Juan Caicedo is a Schmidt Fellow and computer scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, working at the intersection of biology and machine learning. His research involves the use of deep learning and machine learning approaches to analyze microscopy images and genetic data for decoding...
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#14 – Randy Gallistel: Rethinking the neurobiology of memory
Randy Gallistel is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University, studying the cellular substrate of learning and memory. He is one of the biggest critics of the mainstream hypothesis that synaptic plasticity is the neurobiological basis of memory, and has argued for the…
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#13 – Kate Jeffery: Evolution, complexity, and how brains represent space
Kate Jeffery is a Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience at University College London, researching how the brain assembles sensory information into an internal representation of space for navigation. Her current research focuses on how the brain represents complex space like three dimensional…
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#12 – Thomas Gorochowski: Programming biology
Thomas Gorochowski is a synthetic biologist and Royal Society University Research Fellow based in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol. His lab applies tools from synthetic biology for the rational engineering of biological systems, to both provide insights into how...
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#11 – Vandana Ravindran: Modelling biological networks
Vandana Ravindran is a computational biologist at the Oslo Center for Biostatistics and Epidemiology. Her research involves applying mathematical modelling, specifically complex network analysis, to understand viral interactions in relation to cancer. TIMESTAMPS (00:29) – Basis of complex network...
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#10 – Shelley Adamo: How parasites control minds
Shelley Adamo is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Dalhousie University and is an expert in Ecoimmunology and Comparative Psychoneuroimmunology. Her research uses invertebrate model systems to explore the mechanistic relationship between behavior and physiology, one fascinating…
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#9 – Ege Kavalali: How neurons communicate
Ege Kavalali is a Professor of Pharmacology and Acting Chair of the Department of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University, and is also the William Stokes Chair in Experimental Therapeutics. His research focuses on understanding the fundamentals of how synaptic communication occurs between neurons...
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#8 – Chris Eliasmith: Reverse engineering the brain
Chris Eliasmith is the current Director of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of Waterloo, and is a Professor of Philosophy and Systems Design Engineering. Chris works on understanding how the brain processes information through reverse engineering and simulating the human...
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#7 – Nick Yeung: Thinking about thinking
Nick Yeung is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, studying the metacognitive and neural mechanisms of human thinking and reasoning. In particular, his research examines how people evaluate their decisions, why our minds wander, and how different cognitive functions...
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#6 – Kerry Walker: How and why we hear
Kerry Walker is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, studying the neural mechanisms of auditory perception. Her research focuses on understanding how the coordinated activity of neural populations in human and animal brains lead to representations of pitch, rhythm,...
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#5 – Russell Foster: Biological clockwork
Russell Foster is a world leading Professor of Circadian Neuroscience and is the Head of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophtalmology and Director of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute at the University of Oxford. His research addresses the neuroscience of vision and circadian rhythms, as...
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#4 – Simon Butt: How the brain wires itself
Simon Butt is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford working on the developing brain. His research focuses on using developmental genetics to investigate cortical interneuron diversity, and how the genetics and physiology involved determines the emergent circuitry of…
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#3 – Andrew Saxe: Deep learning and the brain
Andrew Saxe is a theoretical neuroscientist and is a Sir Henry Dale Fellow and Joint Group Leader at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit and Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL. His research focuses on developing a mathematical toolkit for analysing and describing phenomena in neuroscience....
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#2 – Vladyslav Vyazovskiy: Mysteries of sleep
Vladyslav Vyazovskiy is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and a leading researcher in the field of sleep, studying the dynamics of brain activity and neurophysiological substrates during sleep, in order to answer the question of what is sleep and why is it...
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#1 – Philip Maini: Modelling patterns in nature
Philip Maini is a Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Oxford and is the head of the Centre for Mathematical Biology in the Mathematical Institute. His research includes mathematical modelling of tumours, wound healing and embryonic pattern formation, and the theoretical…
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Conversations with experts about their work in neuroscience, synthetic biology, mathematics, and various other academic fields to make science accessible to everyone.Follow us on Twitter @EpistimonesPod
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Paco Chow and Megan Lee
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