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The hidden epidemic of despair among young scientists and what some institutions are doing to address it
This piece is part of a series on graduate student mental health coinciding with the Berkeley Science Review’s article on the same subject.
Read MoreThis week on Brains & Bourbon, we sit down with Mariko Bennett to discuss the magic and mystery of glia, the future of gene therapy, and why clamato juice is a thing. Mariko is an MD/PhD student in Ben Barres's lab here at Stanford. "Brains and Bourbon" is a show about cocktails and neuroscience. Each week, we invite a neuroscientist to discuss the process and motivation behind their science, and to share their favorite cocktail with us. You have a brain and you like to drink, so come sit down and have a drink with us.
On this episode of Brains & Bourbon, we sit down with Mariko Bennett to discuss the magic and mystery of glia, the future of gene therapy, and why clamato juice is a thing.
Mariko is an MD/PhD student in Ben Barres's lab here at Stanford.
"Brains and Bourbon" is a show about cocktails and neuroscience. Each week, we invite a neuroscientist to discuss the process and motivation behind their science, and to share their favorite cocktail with us.
You have a brain and you like to drink, so come sit down and have a drink with us.
Be sure to catch this week's episode of Brains & Bourbon featuring Stanford professor Tony Ricci today at 1pm on Stanford radio KZSU 90.1FM
This week on Neurotalk, we speak with Hey-Kyoung Lee about the first chemical LTD experiments, the role of phosphorylation in learning and memory, and how a happy accident increased our knowledge of mutimodal sensory plasticity! Dr. Lee is an associate professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins Mind/Brain Institute.
This week on Neurotalk, we speak with Hey-Kyoung Lee about the first chemical LTD experiments, the role of phosphorylation in learning and memory, and how a happy accident increased our knowledge of mutimodal sensory plasticity!
Dr. Lee is an associate professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins Mind/Brain Institute.
Also! We are excited to announce that you can now listen to Neurotalk and our new radio show Brains and Bourbon on all of your mobile devices via Stitcher! Just subscribe to our channel here: Neuwrite West on Stitcher!
In our inaugural radio version of "Brains and Bourbon," Astra Bryant shares a whiskey sour with us as we discuss brain oscillations and epilepsy, studying attention in birds, and the agony and ecstasy of the optochicken. Astra is a 5th year graduate student in Eric Knudsen and John Huguenard's labs here at Stanford. "Brains and Bourbon" is a show about cocktails and neuroscience. Each week, we invite a neuroscientist to discuss the process and motivation behind their science, and to share their favorite cocktail with us. You have a brain and you like to drink, so come sit down and have a drink with us.
Last summer, we produced a few episodes of a podcast called Brains and Bourbon, and we are happy to announce the return of Brains and Bourbon both in podcast form and as a radio show on Stanford radio KZSU 90.1 FM.
Each week, we will invite a neuroscientist to discuss the process and motivation behind their science, and share their favorite cocktail with us. The show will initially air on KZSU (which you can stream here) every Wednesday at 1pm, and then will be posted here and on our Soundcloud page.
In our inaugural radio version, Neuwrite's own Astra Bryant shares a whiskey sour with us as we discuss brain oscillations and epilepsy, studying attention in birds, and the agony and ecstasy of the optochicken.
You can find our first three episodes on our Soundcloud page:
Brains and Bourbon Ep1 Attention/Old Fashioned/Nick Steinmetz
Brains and Bourbon Ep2 Plasticity/Chartreuse/George Vidal
Brains and Bourbon Ep3 Neuroinflammation/Sazerac/Egle Cekanaviciute
You can subscribe to Brains and Bourbon, Neurotalk, and any other Neuwrite West podcast by subscribing to "NeuWriteWest" on iTunes.
This post is about an online course. But it’s not about the world of online learning. It’s about great learning, great teaching, and truly impactful classes. It’s about science, passion, and human communication, and what I’ve learned from one outstanding online biology course.
Read MoreEven though I write for this neuroscience-focused blog, I know little about neuroscience, as my PhD research is in the cell cycle, a completely different field of biology. This month, I challenged myself to relate my PhD research about the cell cycle to neuroscience. I will present three concepts from the cell-cycle field: irreversible transitions, checkpoints, and multi-purpose proteins, and explain their potential usefulness for neuroscience.
Read MoreThis week on Neurotalk, we speak with Ryan Watts about axon guidance, developing new tools for treating Alzheimer's disease, and more! Dr. Watts is the director of the department of neuroscience at Genentech.
This week on Neurotalk, we speak with Ryan Watts about axon guidance, developing new tools for treating Alzheimer's disease, and more!
Dr. Watts is the director of the department of neuroscience at Genentech.
As many Stanford community members know, my advisor, Stephen Smith is leaving to work at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle WA. I will also be moving with him to work at the Allen Institute starting most likely next fall. Therefore, NeuroTalk is in need of a new host next year. We would like to invite anyone who is interested to contact me at fcollman@stanford.edu.
In order to encourage people to consider taking on this role and to express my appreciation for the opportunity, I’d like to take a moment to express what a pleasure it has been to do this show.
First and foremost, although it is my voice you usually hear, Erica, Mark and I work as a team to put this show together. The three of us collaborate on doing research on the speaker’s background and putting together questions that we hope will illicit some interesting stories from our guests. Erica in particular does a tremendous amount of the heavy lifting, not only with question development, but also by doing the bulk of the editing, including subtracting out many of the awkward UM’s and stumbles of my speech. Erica and Mark will continue to be a part of the show next year, and so whoever steps in to host will continue to have their amazing support.
Second, for me, this has been an amazing opportunity to meet and chat with a wide variety of important neuroscientists, all of whom are pretty interesting people. Over the course of the 30 or so interviews we have done so far, I have gained a greater appreciation for the breadth and variety of research that is relevant to our understanding of the brain. It has also given me a taste of how truly diverse the trajectories of scientists are… not only through their science, but through their lives. Hearing about unemployed and reformed rocker Jeff Isaacson cold calling Dick Tsien in his office at Yale, or hearing about Yishi Jin growing up during the Cultural Revolution, looking for even partial pages of textbooks to learn about science, has been tremendously interesting and really inspiring.
So, I encourage anyone who thinks they may be interested in this position to get in touch with me.
This week on Neurotalk, we speak with Tim Ryan about using voltage sensitive dyes to study synaptic transmission, how ATP is synthesized at the synapse, the value of teaching at Wood's Hole, and more! Dr. Ryan is a professor in the Department of Biochemistry at Weill Cornell Medical College.
This week on Neurotalk, we speak with Tim Ryan about using voltage sensitive dyes to study synaptic transmission, how ATP is synthesized at the synapse, the value of teaching at Wood's Hole, and more!
Dr. Ryan is a professor in the Department of Biochemistry at Weill Cornell Medical College.
Have you thought about your immune system recently? Did it let you down over the holidays and leave you sniffling? Are you thinking of ways that you could boost your immunity? Are you drinking probiotic yoghurt drinks to support your friendly bacteria?
We take the idea of the immune system for granted today, so it may surprise you to learn that less than 200 years ago, most people didn’t realise the body had any natural defences against disease.
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