
Episode 2: Manuel La Torre-Poueymirou
- Undergraduate at the University of Puerto Rico‚ Rio Piedras Campus
- Major: Cellular and Molecular Biology
- Additional studies in Electronics Engineering
- Current Area of Research: Electrochemistry, for the development of economically accessible medical devices for early-stage cancer detection through electrode platforms.
- Areas of Research Interest: Ecology, Biophysics, Cellular, and Molecular Biology to Electrophysiology
- Voltammogram
- https://www.palmsens.com/voltammogram/
- Guánica's Dry Forest
- https://www.discoverpuertorico.com/article/visit-guanicas-dry-forest
- Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotinic_acetylcholine_receptor
- 2019 MIT MSRP Summer Internship Program
- https://oge.mit.edu/graddiversity/msrp/2019-msrp-interns/manuel-la-torre-poueymirou/
- MD-PhD
- https://students-residents.aamc.org/choosing-medical-career/article/why-pursue-md-phd/
- Pan American Games
- https://www.panamsports.org/
Dec 20, 2020
26 min

Episode 1 Shownotes:
Taylor Baum
PhD Student at MIT
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Current Research: Neuroscience and Biology - Intersection of Control Theory and the Circulatory System
Current Lab: MIT Neuroscience Statistics Research Laboratory
Felix Sosa
PhD Student at Harvard
Departments of Psychology and Computer Science at Harvard
The Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines at MIT
Current Labs:
Computation, Cognition, and Development Lab - MIT: http://cocosci.mit.edu/
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab - Harvard: http://gershmanlab.webfactional.com/
Current Research: Intersection of AI, Cognitive Science, and Programming Languages
Program Synthesis
Show-notes in Order of Mention:
MIT Neuroscience Statistics Research Laboratory: http://www.neurostat.mit.edu/
MIT Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines: https://cbmm.mit.edu/
MIT Computational Cognitive Science Group: http://cocosci.mit.edu/
MSRP - MIT Summer Research Program: https://oge.mit.edu/graddiversity/msrp/
Felix Sosa:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpZxbFKDaSDCbm3NtGQ2taw
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/flxsosa
Twitter: https://twitter.com/flxsosa
MISTI - MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives: https://misti.mit.edu/
IDSS MicroMasters Program - Uruguay: https://idss.mit.edu/news/idss-builds-educational-partnership-in-uruguay/
Dmitry Kolpashchikov: https://sciences.ucf.edu/chemistry/person/dmitry-kolpashchikov/
AI@UCF: https://ucfai.org/
Melanie Stefan - A CV of failures: http://melaniestefan.net/Mela_24Nov2017.pdf
Claude Steele: https://claudesteele.com/
Whistling Vivaldi: https://www.amazon.com/Whistling-Vivaldi-Stereotypes-Affect-Issues/dp/0393339726
MIT Graduate Women in Course 6: http://gw6.scripts.mit.edu/
Graduate Women at MIT: https://gsc.mit.edu/gwamit/
Stereotype Threat: https://diversity.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/stereotype_threat_overview.pdf
Dangerous Things: https://dangerousthings.com/
AI Is Not Real Ep 1: https://youtu.be/lOfJVXL1QjM
Jul 24, 2020
1 hr 13 min
