40 | Tom Mullaney & Chris Rea on giving thanks to bias
Tom Mullaney is a Professor of History at Stanford University and the Kluge Chair in Technology and Society at the Library of Congress, and Chris Rea is a Professor of Asian Studies at the University ...
28 Aug 202343min
39 | Bonnie Bassler and living on the edge in a nerdy kind of way
Bonnie Bassler is the Chair of the Molecular Biology Department at Princeton. In this episode, Bonnie talks about her passion for scientific inquiry, creativity, mentorship, and how the journey of dis...
14 Aug 202338min
38 | Yukiko Yamashita, the queen of analogies
Yukiko Yamashita is a biology professor at MIT and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Yukiko’s research is amazingly broad, perhaps because she often only realizes at the end of a...
3 Jul 202326min
37 | Stephen Wolfram is the Worldly Scientist
Can you think of another big company CEO that does basic science? Stephen Wolfram is the CEO of Wolfram Research – the company that developed Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha – but most fundamentally he ...
19 Jun 202341min
36 | Laurence Hurst and the slime mold model of discovery
Laurence Hurst is a professor of Evolutionary Genetics and the founding Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution at The University of Bath. Martin actually learned biology from Laurence as a postdo...
5 Jun 202341min
35 | Edith Heard and the feeling for the system
Edith Heard is a Professor at the Collège de France and the Director General of Europe’s “CERN for biologists”, the European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL). In this episode, Edith explains how she gets ...
22 Mai 202337min
34 | Ewan Birney and the battle scars of discovery
Ewan Birney is the deputy director general of the European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL) and co-director of the European Bioinformatics Institute. In his research, Ewan combines his training in bioche...
8 Mai 202340min
33 | Paola Arlotta and science as a walk in the dark woods
Paola Arlotta is a developmental neurobiologist and a professor at Harvard. She studies how the most complex organ in the human body (in the world? in the universe maybe?) comes to be: the brain (!). ...
24 Apr 202351min
