• Conversations with scientists

  • By: Vivien Marx
  • Podcast

Conversations with scientists

By: Vivien Marx
  • Summary

  • Scientists talk about what they do and why they do what they do. Their motivations, their trajectory, their setbacks, their achievements. They offer their personal take on science, mentoring and the many aspects that have shaped their work and their lives. Hosted by journalist Vivien Marx. Her work has appeared in Nature journals, Science, The Economist, The NY Times, The Wall Street Journal Europe and New Scientist among others. (Art: Justin Jackson)
    © 2024 Vivien Marx
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Episodes
  • Sneak-peek of the 2024 ISSCR annual meeting
    Dec 15 2024

    This podcast was uploaded earlier this year but somehow it was deleted, sorry. So it's not quite a sneak-peek anymore...Whether or not you attended the 2024 annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) or not, you might enjoy this conversation. It's with Dr. Amander Clark from the University of California at Los Angeles, she is also the current president of the ISSCR; Dr. Malin Parmar from Lund University and Dr. Agnete Kirkeby from the University of Copenhagen. They are program chairs of the ISSCR meeting. My co-host is manuscript editor Dr. Stylios Lefkoupolos from Nature Cell Biology.

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    46 mins
  • Sneak-peek of ASHG 2024
    Oct 26 2024

    The annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) is about to start. Here's a sneak-peek of the meeting with Dr. Bruce Gelb who is the current president of ASHG, he is also a researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine in New York City. My co-host --Dr. Mike Fletcher senior editor at Nature Genetics-- and I, asked Bruce Gelb about the meeting but also about some trends such as genetics and inclusion, biobanks, sequencing of the genomes of newborns, exposomics and more.

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    53 mins
  • Sneak-peek of the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
    Sep 22 2024

    Hear about some of the presentations at the upcoming 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. This sneak-peek that also is about some of the latest trends in neuroscience is with Yale University researcher Dr. Marina Picciotto, who is also the president of the Society for Neuroscience and Dr Damien Fair from the University of Minnesota. He is the chair of the Public Education and Communication committee of the Society for Neuroscience.

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    38 mins

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