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When cells lose their balance with Angelika Amon
This episode was recorded live in collaboration with Harvard University’s Science In The News for their Science by the Pint series. Together we hosted MIT professor Angelika Amon at Saloon Davis... Read More
Living Droplets with Phil Sharp
In this episode Tim chats with Phil Sharp, Nobel laureate, Institute Investigator at MIT and member of the Biology Department as well as the Koch Institute. Phil confronted the question of how large p... Read More
Cells: A Genetic Blueprint or Molecular Machines?
Cells: A Genetic Blueprint or Molecular Machines? In this episode, Tim and Max interview two MIT professors for a live event with Taste of Science Boston. Taste of Science is a nationwide science comm... Read More
Invent with Bob Langer
In the previous episode (“Better Questions”), we sat down with MIT Institute Professor Bob Langer and explored his story through the lens of revolutionary questions. But that’s just one side o... Read More
Better Questions with Bob Langer
Bob Langer is one of ten Institute Professors at MIT. His numerous innovations in materials used in medicine have had a significant positive impact on the world. In the first of a two-part series,... Read More
Turning Waste into Wealth with Rozzeta Dolah
This episode is with Dr Rozzeta Dolah, a postdoctoral fellow in Prof Rohit Karnik’s Microfluidics and Nanofluidics Research Laboratory at MIT. Her work revolves around process optimization in re... Read More
Defining Neuroethics with Ed Boyden
In the previous episode (“Getting the Data”), we learned about the many neuroscience tools Prof. Ed Boyden (MIT Media Lab, McGovern Institute) and his team have invented and disseminated t... Read More
Getting the Data with Ed Boyden
Ed Boyden is a professor in the MIT Media Lab (Synthetic Neurobiology) and McGovern Institute. He’s developed several revolutionary tools for researchers, including optogenetics — for controllin... Read More
Postdoc Reunion Afterparty: Brent Grocholski
GLiMPSE joined forces with the MIT Postdoctoral Association for their Postdoc Homecoming on March 15, 2019. Our own founder Alex moderated a discussion with a distinguished panel of former MIT postdo... Read More
Attacking Tuberculosis with Prof. Bryan Bryson
We are excited to present our interview with Prof. Bryan Bryson, Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT. Prof. Bryson is challenging the dogma of active and latent tuberculosis. His work... Read More
Good Bugs with César de la Fuente-Nunez
This is the second in a two-part series (first episode: ‘Bad Bugs’). Dr. César de la Fuente-Nunez is a postdoc working in Tim Lu’s lab at MIT. In this episode, we discuss probiotics... Read More
Bad Bugs with César de la Fuente-Nunez
Dr. César de la Fuente-Nunez is a postdoc working in Tim Lu’s lab (Synthetic Biology Group; Biological Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science). César investigates humans’ com... Read More
S2E10: Zoya Bylinskii – AI, Attention, & Creativity
Dr. Zoya Bylinskii is a recent PhD graduate from CSAIL at MIT under the supervision of Frédo Durand and Aude Oliva. Her work uses AI to decipher human attention and memory. Where are people looking? ... Read More
S2E9: Diana Orghian – The Optimism Bias
Diana Orghian is a social psychologist interested in how people perceive and extract meaning from the surrounding social world. She is a postdoctoral associate in the Collective Learning group (at Med... Read More