Podcast Episode

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS

Listen Free in iTunes

Listen Free on Stitcher Radio

Dr. Lisa Monteggia is the Ginny and John Eulich Professor in Autism Spectrum Disorders within the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She received her Masters Degree in Biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Afterwards, she spent several years working in the industry world for a pharmaceutical company. She received her PhD in Neuroscience from the Chicago Medical School and went on to complete a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University before joining the faculty at UT Southwestern. Lisa has received a number of awards for her excellence in research, including recently in 2011 the Rising Star Award from the International Mental Health Research Organization and the Daniel H. Efron Award for outstanding basic or translational research by the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. Lisa is with us today to tell us about her journey through life and science.

[Read more…] about 041: Dr. Lisa Monteggia: Happily Piecing Together the Puzzle of Antidepressant Drug Efficacy

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS

Listen Free in iTunes

Listen Free on Stitcher Radio

Dr. Mike Angiletta is a Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University as well as the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Programs there. He is also a Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Global Institute of Sustainability. Mike received his PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Pennsylvania. He served as a faculty member at Indiana State University before accepting a position at ASU. Mike has received a number of awards and honors throughout his career, including the Marsh Book-of-the-Year Award from the British Ecological Society in 2010 and the Theodore Dreiser Distinguished Research Award from Indiana State University. Mike is with us today to tell us about his journey through life and science.

[Read more…] about 040: Dr. Mike Angilletta: Studying Degrees of Adaptation in Animals in Response to Changing Climates

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS

Listen Free in iTunes

Listen Free on Stitcher Radio

Dr. Ken Olsen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis as well as a Research Associate at the Missouri Botanical Garden. He received his Masters Degree in Botany from the University of Texas at Austin and his PhD in Population and Evolutionary Biology from Washington University in St. Louis. He then went on to complete a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Genetics at North Carolina State University. Ken is joining us today to tell us about his journey through life and science.

[Read more…] about 039: Dr. Ken Olsen: Cultivating an Understanding of the Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change in Plants

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS

Listen Free in iTunes

Listen Free on Stitcher Radio

Dr. Mike Bevis is a Professor of Geodynamics in the School of Earth Sciences at The Ohio State University. He received his PhD in Geophysics from Cornell University. He has also been awarded the prestigious distinction of being an Ohio Eminent Scholar in Geodynamics and is also a Fellow of the International Association of Geodesy. Mike is joining us today to tell us about his journey through life and science.

[Read more…] about 038: Dr. Mike Bevis: A Researcher Who Found His Place in Science Using GPS to Study the Earth’s Surface

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS

Listen Free in iTunes

Listen Free on Stitcher Radio

Dr. Lucas Pozzo-Miller is a Professor in the Department of Neurobiology the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He received his Masters and his PhD in Biology from Córdoba National University in Argentina, and completed post-doctoral fellowships at Case Western Reserve University with Dennis Landis and the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology with John Connor. He also performed research at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Holewith Rodolfo Llinás. Lucas then held a Senior Staff Fellow position at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, within the National Institutes of Health before accepting a position at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Lucas is joining us today to tell us about his journey through life and science.

[Read more…] about 037: Dr. Lucas Pozzo-Miller: Exploring the Pathway Less Traveled to Better Understand Rett Syndrome