Author: glimpsemaster
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
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
S2E8: Mike Shah – Teaching Humans Computer Science is Fun
Dr. Mike Shah is a lecturer in the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University. He studies how to improve the speed of computer software and make coding intuitive to the uni... Read More
S2E7: Sydney Levine – Encoding Morality into Machines
Sydney Levine is a postdoc working jointly with Iyad Rahwan (Scalable Cooperation Group, MIT Media Lab), Joshua Tenenbaum (Computational Cognitive Science Group, MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences), and... Read More
S2E6 – Jessica Polka – Preprints Improve Publishing
Jessica Polka is the executive director of Accelerating Science And Publication in Biology (ASAPbio) Website: asapbio.org Twitter: @ASAPbio_! OpenPharma: https://openpharma.blog/ https://www.biorxiv.o... Read More
S2E5: Shruti Muralidhar – How Memories Change the Brain
Dr. Shruti Muralidhar is a postdoc in the Susumu Tonegawa’s lab at MIT’s Picower Institute. She is working on the biological mechanisms of making memories. In this episode we discuss spide... Read More
S2E4: Peter Sudmant – Genetics, Aging & Diversity
Peter Sudmant is currently a postdoc in Chris Burge’s lab in the Department of Biology at MIT, where he studies species diversity and aging at different genomic scales. Prior to his arrival in Cambr... Read More
S2E3: Lauren Stopfer – Everything you Need to Know about MIT Grad School!
Lauren Stopfer is a bioengineering graduate student in the White and Lauffenburger labs. She is developing new tools to profile what proteins cancer cells present to the immune system. In this episode... Read More
S2E2: Nichole Daringer – Engineering Human Cells
Dr. Nichole Daringer is a postdoc in the Jim Collins lab at MIT. She is working on engineering new receptors in human cells. In this episode we discuss receptors, GMOs, the advantages of overthinkin... Read More
S2E1: Tyler Ford – Engineering Cells to do the Impossible
Dr. Tyler Ford completed his PhD in Pam Silver’s group at Harvard. He is currently an Outreach Scientist, Blog Editor, and podcaster at Addgene Inc. a non-profit plasmid repository. In this epis... Read More
S2 E0: Meet the New Kids!
Welcome to Season 2 of GLiMPSE podcast. We are getting some help this year from Tim Fessenden (middle) and Max Robinson (right), two postdocs at MIT. In this short episode, I introduce season 2 and do... Read More
#14 “A Veterinarian walks into MIT…” with Galit Frydman
Dr. Galit Frydman has just completed her PhD in Biological Engineering at MIT while simultaneously pursuing a postdoctoral fellowship in Comparative Medicine at MIT and in Surgical Sciences at MGH. In... Read More
#13 Synthetic Biology, Perfumes and Foot-Cheese with Christina Agapakis
Dr. Christina Agapakis is the creative director at Ginko Bioworks. In this episode we discuss her amazing journey from Pam Silver’s lab to her current position at Ginko Bioworks. Along the way s... Read More