Best Molecular Imaging Podcasts (2025)

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815: Fascinated by the Effects of Material Properties on the Form and Function of Fishes - Dr. Adam Summers 50:02

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Dr. Adam Summers is a Professor in the School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences and Department of Biology at the University of Washington, and he conducts research in his lab within the Friday Harbor Laboratories there. With a background in engineering and mathematics, Adam works on applying engineering and physics principles to living systems. He …

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Bio BITES 42: Bites, Blood Meals, and Behavioral Switches: Decoding Mosquito Behavior with Dr. Duvall 43:44

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Even if mosquitoes make your skin crawl—or you think of them as nothing more than the flying, biting pests we all can’t stand—you'll be surprised by how fascinating they really are. In this episode of Bio Bytes, Dr. Laura Duvall, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, joins Celine to explore the surprising science behind…

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814: Uncovering the Secrets of Ancient Creatures By Studying Fossils and the Fossilization Process - Dr. Sarah Gabbott 51:23

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Dr. Sarah Gabbott is a Professor of Palaeontology in the School of Geography, Geology, and the Environment at the University of Leicester. She is also Director of Green Circle Nature Regeneration CIC, a non-profit organization in the UK, and she is co-author of the recently released book Discarded: How Technofossils Will be Our Ultimate Legacy. As …

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Bio Bytes 41: From Bedside to Breakthrough: Dr. Rosenblatt on Innovation and Impact in Anesthesiology 40:42

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In this episode of Bio Bytes and our ongoing Bench to Bedside series, we learn about Dr. Meg Rosenblatt, Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at Mount Sinai Morningside and West and Professor of Anesthesiology. She is recognized as the first person to deliver 20% intralipid therapy to treat local anesthetic systemic toxicity in a patient. We e…

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813: Investigating the Impacts of the Gut Microbiome on Immunotherapy Cancer Treatments - Dr. Jennifer Wargo 35:18

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Dr. Jennifer Wargo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgical Oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and a Stand Up To Cancer researcher. Jennifer is a physician scientist, and this means she splits her time between providing care to patients and doing research to find better ways of treating disease. Specificall…

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Welcome To Half-Life 1:16

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Welcome to Half-Life, your weekly dose of what’s hot and happening in nuclear medicine. I’m Dr. William Kane Olwit, consultant radiologist and nuclear medicine fellow. Every week on this show, we’ll explore cutting-edge research, game-changing trends, and clinical insights shaping the future of molecular imaging and theranostics, especially from th…

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812: Studying the Evolutionary Diversity of Squishy Sea Creatures - Dr. Joseph Ryan 38:00

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Dr. Joseph Ryan is an Assistant Professor of Biology at the Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience at the University of Florida. Joe studies DNA from squishy marine invertebrates like ctenophores (e.g. comb jellies), cnidarians (e.g. jellyfish), tunicates (e.g. sea squirts), and sea cucumbers. His goal is to understand how different types of anim…

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Alpha Therapy: Opportunities, Challenges, and Clinical Impact 25:42

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In this episode, host Dr. Mike Nickels welcomes nuclear medicine pioneer Dr. Richard Wahl for an in-depth exploration of alpha-emitting radiopharmaceuticals. Learn where alpha therapy holds the most clinical promise, and what’s needed to bring these powerful agents into routine care. From supply chain hurdles to toxicity management and future clini…

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811: Investigating Clams with Photosynthetic Algae, Parasites in Mud Shrimp, and Other Species Interactions that Shape Evolution - Dr. Jingchun Li 42:59

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Dr. Jingchun Li is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado Boulder, and she is the Curator of Invertebrates at CU Boulder’s Museum of Natural History. She is also a Packard Foundation Fellow and a National Geographic Explorer. Jingchun studies how different species interact with eac…

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Theranostics Unpacked: Precision, Promise, and the Future of Nuclear Medicine 22:12

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In this inaugural episode of the WMIS Podcast, Dr. Mike Nickels sits down with Dr. Diane Abou of NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes for a dynamic conversation about the rise of theranostics in nuclear medicine. Tune in as they unpack what theranostics really means, why it’s gaining momentum, and how it's transforming the future of patient care. Learn …

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Bio Bytes 40: Engineering Novel Immune Circuits with Dr. Livnat Jerby 39:56

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Join us for a fascinating conversation with Dr. Livnat Jerby, an Assistant Professor of Genetics at Stanford University, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator, and Paul Allen Distinguished Investigator. In this episode, Dr. Jerby shares how her lab is decoding and engineering immune circuits to create next-generation cell therapies, drawing on high-t…

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810: Studying Social Behavior, Reproduction, and Health in Female-Dominant Species - Dr. Christine Drea 42:15

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Dr. Christine Drea is the Earl D. McLean Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, as well as Professor in the Department of Biology, the University Program in Ecology, and the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences at Duke University. Research in Christine’s lab examines animal behavior from an integrative perspective. She and her colleagues are investig…

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809: Bright Researcher Studying Exoplanets and their Stars and Developing New Astrophysics Technology - Dr. Kevin France 33:53

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Dr. Kevin France is an Assistant Professor in the Department for Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences as well as an investigator within the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Kevin’s research focuses on improving our understanding of planetary systems outside of our own solar system. His research he…

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Understanding Metabolic PET Markers Beyond SUV 28:29

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Standardized uptake values (SUV) measure a patient's response to nuclear medicine therapy. But what other markers of success are there, and do these markers and the interpretation of them vary depending on the disease being imaged? Sally Barrington, MD, works specifically on lymphoma and shares her expertise on what markers of success and criteria …

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808: Unraveling How Mitochondria Can Be Used to Reverse Aging and Treat Age-Related Diseases - Dr. Keshav Singh 51:31

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Dr. Keshav K. Singh is the Joy and Bill Harbert Endowed Chair and Professor of Genetics, Dermatology and Pathology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is also the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Mitochondrion Journal. In addition, Keshav is the founder and Chief Scientific Officer of the company Yuva Biosciences. Research in Keshav’s lab…

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807: Conducting Cool Science on Conservation in Arctic and Subarctic Ecosystems - Dr. Luise Hermanutz 57:00

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Dr. Luise Hermanutz is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Memorial University in Canada. Her work is dedicated to solving the puzzle of how organisms survive and adapt in their environments. She is interested in how plants and animals interact and how that shapes the world around us. Most of Luise's work focuses on northern boreal forests …

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806: Creating Two-Dimensional Material Structures to Investigate Novel Quantum States of Matter - Dr. Jia "Leo" Lee 30:07

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Dr. Jia "Leo" Li is an Associate Professor of Physics at Brown University. He is a condensed matter experimental physicist, and his research involves stacking different layers of two-dimensional (2D) material together to discover new electronic properties that could revolutionize future technology, including the next generation of computers and ele…

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805: Creating Cell-Free Gene Editing On A Chip For Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment - Dr. Eric Kmiec 44:34

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Dr. Eric Kmiec is Director of the Gene Editing Institute of the Helen F. Graham Cancer and Research Institute at Christiana Care Health System. He also holds faculty appointments at the University of Delaware and the Wistar Institute. Eric and his colleagues are working to develop new ways to treat cancer by destroying the genes that cause cancer c…

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804: Studying How Dryland Ecosystems Respond to Changes in Water Availability - Dr. Andrew Felton 46:07

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Dr. Andrew Felton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences within the College of Agriculture at Montana State University-Bozeman where he is Principal Investigator of the Felton Lab there. Andrew splits his time between teaching and his research lab. His research focuses on dry land ecosystems, which …

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803: Conducting Research on Complex Marine Microbial Communities - Dr. Ed DeLong 49:03

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Dr. Edward DeLong is a Professor in the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawai’i Mānoa as well as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. Research in Ed’s lab brings together a variety of disciplines to study microbial communities in the ocean. He is interested in their ecology, evolution…

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PSMA PET: From Adolescence to Adulthood 31:31

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Is PSMA becoming so regularly used that it's...boring? Not according to this lively discussion. Join us for episode 9 of the JNM Podcast, where host Ken Herrmann discusses the state of PSMA PET with experts Thomas Hope, Oliver Sartor, and Wolfgang Fendler. The panel talks about PSMA PET in clinical trials vs. real-life disease management, appropria…

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802: Using Remote Sensing to Study Space Weather and the Earth’s Natural Space Environment - Dr. Emma Spanswick 43:22

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Dr. Emma Louise Spanswick is an Associate Professor and a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Tier II Canada Research Chair in Geospace Dynamics and Space Plasma Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Calgary. Emma studies the Earth’s natural space environment, which is connected to our upper atmospher…

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801: Using Gene Editing to Create Enhanced Cell Therapies - Dr. Kyle Cromer 56:01

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Dr. Kyle Cromer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. In his lab, Kyle takes gene editing a step further beyond just modifying “the typos” in DNA to correct them back to what the code should be. He uses genome-editing approaches to introduce new functions into cells…

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800: Protecting Children's Health from Toxic Hazards and Environmental Exposures - Dr. Philip Landrigan 41:45

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Dr. Philip J. Landrigan is a pediatrician and a public health doctor. He is Professor of Biology, Director of the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good, and Director of the Global Observatory on Planetary Health at the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society at Boston College. He is also Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics…

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Revolutionizing Cardiovascular Imaging with Flurpiridaz 34:20

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The JNM Podcast is back in 2025! Join Ken Herrmann, MD, and co-moderator Frank Bengel, MD, for an episode on cardiovascular perfusion imaging. In the U.S., SPECT imaging makes up five to six million studies per year. But PET studies make up just 2.2 million, and only 7%, or 150,000 of those, are cardiac PET imaging. But that may be about to change.…

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799: Protecting the World's Most Peaceful Primates - Dr. Karen Strier 57:54

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Dr. Karen Strier is the Vilas Research Professor and Irven Devore Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Karen is a Primate behavioral ecologist. She is working to understand the biological basis of human behavior, evolution, and adaptation by studying our closest living relatives. Research in Karen’s group involves obser…

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798: Researching the Regulation of Circadian Rhythms - Dr. Joseph Takahashi 39:03

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Dr. Joseph S. Takahashi is Professor and Chair of Neuroscience and the Loyd B. Sands Distinguished Chair in Neuroscience at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He is also an Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Joe and his lab members are trying to better understand the biological clocks in our bodies that control o…

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Bio Bytes 39 [BenchtoBedside Series]: Biomedical Informatics in Neurocritical Care with Dr. Soojin Park 23:18

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Join us for an illuminating discussion with Dr. Soojin Park, an Associate Professor of Neurology (in Biomedical informatics) and an Associate Attending Physician at Columbia University. Dr. Park discusses her career trajectory in neurocritical care and biomedical informatics as well as the potential of machine learning techniques to leverage clinic…

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797: Examining How Our Brains Make Decisions About Investing Effort and the Impacts of Mental Illness - Dr. Michael Treadway 57:19

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Dr. Michael Treadway is the Winship Distinguished Research Professor in Psychology and Director of Clinical Training in the Department of Psychology at Emory University. He is also affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory. One of the aims of Michael’s lab is to investigate how the brain makes decisions about whe…

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796: Using Structural Geology to Understand Earth's History - Dr. Marcia Bjornerud 35:10

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Dr. Marcia Bjornerud is Professor of Geology and the Walter Schober Professor of Environmental Studies at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. In addition, she is a writer for “Elements”, the New Yorker’s science and technology blog, and she is the author of the textbook The Blue Planet: An Introduction to Earth System Science, the popular science boo…

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795: Applying Big Data Analytics to Understand the Biology and Epidemiology of Psychiatric Disorders - Dr. Renato Polimanti 40:25

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Dr. Renato Polimanti is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and he also has appointments in Biomedical Informatics & Data Science, as well as Chronic Disease Epidemiology at the Yale University School of Medicine, the School of Public Health, and the Wu Tsai Institute. Research in Renato’s lab examines human genetics from different perspectives. …

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Bio Bytes 38 [BenchtoBedside Series]: Biomedical Informatics with Dr. George Hripcsak 33:51

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Join us for an enlightening conversation with Dr. George Hripcsak, the Vivian Beaumont Allen Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. Dr. Hripcsak shares insights regarding his research in biomedical informatics, focusing on how data from electronic health records can be leveraged to transform clinical research and patient care. …

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794: Fascinating Field Work Following Birds of the North American Boreal Forests - Dr. Bruce Beehler 48:58

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Dr. Bruce Beehler is an ornithologist and Research Associate in the Bird Division of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. Bruce's research is focused on the birds of the boreal conifer forests of the U.S. and Canada. He is interested in understanding how the permanent resident birds survive in these forests year round. …

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793: Improving our Understanding of How Snakes and Lizards Hear - Dr. Dawei "David" Han 33:01

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Dr. Dawei “David” Han is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park. David studies how snakes hear. Snakes are able to detect sound without external ear structures, particularly low frequency vibrations, and David is interested in how this process works, as well as the structures and pathways invo…

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792: Investigating Interactions Between Amphibian Immune Systems, Invading Pathogens, and the Environment - Dr. Barbara Katzenback 38:17

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Dr. Barbara Katzenback is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Waterloo. Barb studies how frogs defend themselves from diseases to stay alive, and she also investigates how the environments that frogs live in impact their ability to defend against diseases. Frogs and other amphibians are critical components of th…

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791: Studying Photosynthetic Sea Slugs and Other Underwater Invertebrates - Dr. Michael Middlebrooks 34:38

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Dr. Michael Middlebrooks is an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Tampa. Michael’s research focuses on various species of sea slugs, particularly a group called the Sacaglossan sea slugs. Some of them have developed the ability to use chloroplasts from the algae they eat to become photosynthetic themselves. Michael studies how bein…

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790: Investigating the Intersection of Public Health, Infectious Disease, and Behavior Change to Improve Human Health - Dr. Satesh Bidaisee 50:54

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Dr. Satesh Bidaisee is a Professor of Public Health and Preventative Medicine and Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies at St. George’s University in Grenada. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Center for Global Health at Old Dominion University and a Visiting Professor at Chitkara University in India and at Kasetsart University in Thailand. Many…

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Social Media in (Nuclear) Medicine 21:57

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Get ready for an episode that's a bit...meta. In Episode 7, our host Ken Herrmann is joined by the podcasters behind GU Cast: Declan Murphy, FRACS, FRCS, and Renu Eapen, MBBS, FRACS. Together with Wolfgang Weber, MD, PhD, they discuss how social media has shaped the landscape of medicine - from how we get medical news, to sharing new research to in…

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789: Studying the Molecular Mechanisms Important for the Parasite that Causes Malaria - Dr. Karine Le Roch 39:01

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Dr. Karine Gaelle Le Roch is a Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology and Director of the Center for Infectious Disease and Vector Research at the University of California, Riverside. Karine’s research focuses on parasites, and much of her work has focused on the parasite that causes malaria in humans. She is working to …

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788: Researching the Comparative Genomics of Pathological and Beneficial Bacteria - Dr. Rebecca Wattam 49:44

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Dr. Rebecca Wattam is a Research Associate Professor in the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory within the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech. Rebecca is the outreach and biology lead for a bioinformatics research center that scientists use to share and analyze their data on bacteria and bacterial genomes. This research center …

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787: Examining the Neural Circuits Involved in Using Timing Differences to Localize Sound - Dr. Catherine Carr 42:48

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Dr. Catherine Emily Carr is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park. In the lab, Catherine is interested in understanding how animals perceive their environment. This work involves observing animal behavior in the field, as well as laboratory studies to try to understand the biol…

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786: Branching Out to Better Understand Evolutionary Relatedness By Examining Phylogenetic Trees - Dr. James O'Dwyer 46:19

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Dr. James O'Dwyer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Biology and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The research in James’s lab uses computational and theoretical approaches to better understand the patterns we observe in the world. He is an ecologist and is particularl…

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Bio Bytes 37: Academia, Scientific Publishing, and Translational Research in Targeted Protein Degradation with Michele Pagano 47:11

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Michele Pagano, Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at NYU School of Medicine, takes us through his groundbreaking research on the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System and Cullin-RING Ligases. As a leading Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor Pagano shares insights into targeted protein degradation…

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785: Investigating Interactions Between the Immune System and Central Nervous System - Dr. Jonathan Kipnis 50:47

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Dr. Jonathan (Jony) Kipnis is a BJC Investigator and the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He is also Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Neurosurgery and Director of the Brain Immunology and Glia Center there. Jony is a neuroimmunologist. H…

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784: In Her Element Examining Mobile DNA Sequences and Genome Evolution - Dr. Susan Wessler 46:39

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Dr. Susan Wessler is a Distinguished Professor of Genetics at the University of California, Riverside. She is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor and the Home Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences. Sue is a geneticist whose research focuses on transposable elements, which are pieces of DNA that move from one site to another. In…

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Bringing PRRT to First Line: NETTER-2 28:48

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Join us for episode 6 of the JNM podcast. Moderator Ken Herrmann, MD is joined by Simron Singh, MD and Lisa Bodei, MD, PhD to discuss NETTER-2. NETTER-2 was the first trial to examine radioligand therapy as a first-line therapy for cancers, as opposed to waiting until later stages. Our panelists discuss the results of this trial and its implication…

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783: Studying the Biology of Eye Diseases to Inform the Development of New Therapies - Dr. Ruchira Singh 32:31

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Dr. Ruchira Singh is an Associate Professor and the recipient of the Dean’s Professorship in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Rochester Medical Center where she also has joint appointments in the Department of Biomedical Genetics and the Center for Visual Science. Ruchira studies eye diseases to understand why some people can’t …

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782: Nanoscientist and Physicist Studying the Manipulation of Single Molecules and Atoms - Dr. Philip Moriarty 40:14

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Dr. Philip Moriarty is a Professor of Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nottingham. In addition, he is an avid contributor to the Sixty Symbols YouTube video project and author of the book When the Uncertainty Principle Goes to 11: Or How to Explain Quantum Physics with Heavy Metal. Philip is an enthusiastic heavy …

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781: Bringing to Light the Benefits of Bacteria and the Connections Between Health and the Human Microbiome - Dr. Patrick Schloss 53:12

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Dr. Patrick Schloss is an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan. As a microbial ecologist, Pat is fascinated by bacterial communities. He believes that bacterial communities in and on us are interacting with each other and with us, to keep us healthy. If something goes wrong with these co…

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780: Researching Soft Robots, Medical Robots, and Haptics in Human-Robot Interactions - Dr. Allison Okamura 37:38

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Dr. Allison Okamura is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She also holds a courtesy appointment in Computer science there. Research in Allison’s lab examines three different areas of robotics. The first is haptics, which involves human machine interactions through the sense of touch. The second is designing medical robots…

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