In the first Brains and Behavior Distinguished Lecture Series Podcast of the 2020-21 year, Greg sits down with Dr. Larry Young of Emory University to discuss his inspiration for getting into social psychiatry and his post-doc years at UT-Austin (3:17), researching social behavior in monogamous prairie voles (11:10), how oxytocin and vasopressin receptor expression overlaps with addiction circuitry to encode social responding (15:41), how social behavioral research helps us study the deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorder (35:27), teaching neuroscience to Tibetan monks (39:58), and the perks of being married to a neuroscientist (42:47).
Sep 25, 2020
46 min
Greg sits down with Ed Boyden, the Y. Eva Tan professor in Neurotechnology and the Synthetic Biology group Leader at MIT to discuss how things have been both at home and in the lab during COVID (1:56), his background as an engineer and how those skills translate to neuroscience (7:08), transitioning from learning and memory work to optogenetics research (12:55), expansion microscopy (20:07), science in the press and brining basic research to the public (25:35), updated research on fluorescent tags and how this can be used for brain mapping (32:46), and comparing science and quality of life in Boston vs. the bay area (42:09).
Sep 24, 2020
49 min
Greg chats with Dan Almira (from The beat w/ DA) and Domingo Rodriguez on the joy of football being back (1:45), recent news in the FSU football program (5:40), review the Georgia Tech game (13:48), preview FSU vs. Miami (48:04), and go through some listener questions (1:01:18).
Sep 23, 2020
1 hr 22 min