Science Communication Lab

Early Career Scientists and Preprints Q&A

Eric Wieschaus (Princeton) Part 1: Patterning Development in the Embryo

Tom Rapoport (Harvard, HHMI) 1: Organelle Biosynthesis and Protein Sorting

Marc Kirschner (Harvard): Evolvability

Joseph Takahashi (UT Southwestern/HHMI) Part 1A: Circadian Clocks: Clock Genes, Cells and Circuits

Susan Taylor (UCSD) Part 1: Protein Phosphorylation in Biology

Stephen ORahilly (Cambridge) 1: The Causes of Obesity: Why Isn’t everybody fat?

Pamela Ronald (UC Davis) Part 1: Sustainable agriculture

Ron Vale (UCSF, HHMI) 3: Molecular Motor Proteins: Regulation of Mammalian Dynein

David Drubin (UC Berkeley) 2: Actin dynamics and endocytosis in yeast

Melissa Moore (U. Mass/HHMI) Part 2: Spliceosome Structure and Dynamics

Erik Jorgensen (U. Utah / HHMI) 2: Recycling synaptic vesicles: Ultrafast endocytosis

C. David Allis (Rockefeller U.) 1: Epigenetics: Why Your DNA Isn’t Enough

Anthony Hyman (Max Planck Institute) Part 3: Formation and duplication of centrioles

Kate Adamala (U of M) 1: Synthetic Cells: Building Life to Understand It

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (NIH) Part 3: Super Resolution Imaging

Julie Huang (Stanford U.): H. pylori finds its home

Yifan Cheng (UCSF & HHMI) 1: Single Particle Cryo-EM

David Drubin (UC Berkeley) 3: Actin dynamics and endocytosis in mammalian cells

Graham Hatfull (University of Pittsburgh/HHMI) Part 2: Bacteriophages: Genomic insights.

David Baker (U. Washington / HHMI) Part 1: Introduction to Protein Design

Tom Rapoport (Harvard, HHMI) 2: How are cellular organelles shaped?

Nobel winners Doudna, Charpentier discover how CRISPR Cas9 gene editing works | Good Chemistry

Elizabeth Blackburn (UCSF) Part 2: Telomeres and Telomerase in Human Stem Cells and in Cancer

Elizabeth Blackburn (UCSF) Part 1: The Roles of Telomeres and Telomerase

Emery Brown (Harvard Med., MIT) 1: Unconsciousness Under General Anesthetic is a Dynamic State

William Catterall (U. Washington) Part 3: Voltage-gated Calcium Channels

Julie Huber (WHOI) 1: Microbes, Fluids, and Rocks

Jurgen Knoblich (IMBA) 1: Asymmetric Cell Division; From Drosophila to Humans

Joanne Kamens 1: What is a Peer Mentoring Group?

Beth Stevens (Boston Children’s) 2: How Microglia Sculpt Brain Circuitry in Health and Disease

Thomas Kornberg (UCSF) 1: An introduction to paracrine signaling

Scott Edwards (Harvard) Part 2: Multilocus phylogeography of Australian birds

Tshaka Cunningham: Finding Faith in Science

Paul E. Turner (Yale) 1: Introduction to Virus Ecology and Evolution

Daniel Colon-Ramos (Yale/HHMI) 1: Cell biology of the synapse and behavior in C. elegans

Sebastian Lourido (Whitehead Inst. & MIT) 1:Toxoplasma gondii: a model apicomplexan

Michael Alley (Penn State) 3: Attaining Confidence in Your Scientific Presentations

Pascale Cossart (Institut Pasteur) Part 1: Bacterial pathogenesis: the Listeria paradigm

Stephen P. Bell (MIT / HHMI) 1b: Chromosomal DNA Replication: Initiation of DNA Replication

Baldomero “Toto” Olivera (U. Utah, HHMI): Venomous Cone Snails

Ralph Isberg (Tufts U / HHMI) Part 1: What Distinguishes a Pathogen from a Non-Pathogen?

Ralph Isberg (Tufts U / HHMI) Part 2: Community Behavior of an Extracellular Pathogen

Deshaies (Amgen) 1: A primer on the ubiquitin-proteasome system

William Catterall (U. Washington) Part 1: Electrical Signaling: Life in the Fast Lane

Isabella Catalano, PhD interview, Share Your Research Series

What Happened after the Redwoods Burned?: Fire Among Giants

Wang Xi, PhD interview, Share Your Research Series

Chrystelle Vilfranc (U. Cincinnati): Who Protects the Liver When it Faces Disease?

Bacterial DRAMA: Dispute Results in an Anti-Microbial Agent

Amrita A. Iyer (Baylor): Reprogramming in the Inner Ear: A Promising Path to Restore Hearing