16 | Agnel Sfeir on science as an obsession
Agnel Sfeir is a leading scientist in the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, who studies fundamental aspects of the biology of the cell. Agnel revels in asking seemingly simple questi...
16 Maj 202242min
15 | Nikolaus Rajewsky on how to think like a bacterium
Nikolaus Rajewsky is the founding director of the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology. After studying Physics, he moved into systems biology, studying the role of RNA in gene regulation. In t...
21 Mars 202226min
14 | Bill Martin on paying attention
Professor Bill Martin from Düsseldorf University is a leading evolutionary biologist, who has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the origins of eukaryotes, the cell nucleus, and li...
24 Feb 202239min
13 | Steven Strogatz on ruthless simplification
Steven Strogatz, one of the world’s foremost applied mathematicians, is a Professor at Cornell University. While biologists have evolution as a guiding principle, mathematicians have beauty, economy,...
7 Feb 202247min
12 | Samantha Morris on building your own creative lineage
Professor Sam Morris from Washington University in St. Louis is elucidating how cells make developmental decisions as they navigate the space of cell identity. She had a rocky start in science, but fa...
8 Jan 202254min
11 | Ruth Lehmann and the Saturday afternoon experiment
How do world-class scientists make discoveries? “Observing and listening” says Professor Ruth Lehmann, the Director of MIT’s Whitehead Institute. Ruth’s pioneering research focuses on germ cells and e...
24 Dec 202136min
10 | Tom McLeish on the poetry of science
How is science like art? In this episode, we talk about the similarities between the creative processes of science and art with Tom McLeish, a Fellow of the Royal Society and Professor of Natural Phil...
30 Sep 202139min
9 | Ben Lehner on how to start your own scientific field
Ben Lehner is a Professor and Coordinator of the Systems Biology Programme at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona. In this episode, Ben talks with us about how careerism is bad for science....
2 Sep 202147min
