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
8 | Yana Bromberg on getting creative with machine learning
Yana Bromberg is a Professor at Rutgers, where she teaches computers to speak the functional language of biological sequences. In this episode, she talks with Itai and Martin about the amazing creativ...
28 Juni 202151min
7 | Michael Strevens on how science really works
In this episode, Itai and Martin talk to New Zealander Michael Strevens, who – after studying mathematics and computer science – became professor of philosophy at New York University. Michael recently...
7 Juni 202144min
6 | Harmit Malik’s dark alleys to discovery
In this episode, Itai and Martin talk to Harmit Malik, Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and President of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. Harmit’s main Night Sci...
24 Maj 202140min
5 | Sarah Teichmann’s artist colony of scientists
In this episode, Itai and Martin talk to Sarah Teichman, Head of Cellular Genetics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Director of Research in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England. In...
17 Maj 202120min
