PNAS Science Sessions
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Welcome to Science Sessions, the PNAS podcast program. Listen to brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, Academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of work published in PNAS, plus a broad range of scientific news about discoveries that affect the world around us.
Episodes
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Jun 7, 2019 • 6min
Simulating material behavior
Emily Carter's work merges quantum mechanics, applied mathematics, and solid state physics to create simulations of various molecules and materials. Listen as Dr. Carter discusses her research and her 2008 election to the National Academy of Sciences.
Jun 7, 2019 • 5min
Human expansion out of Africa
Richard Klein served as editor for the PNAS Special Feature titled "Out of Africa". This collection of articles explores the historical expansion of Homo sapiens from Africa to Eurasia. The Special Feature, along with an editorial by Dr. Klein, will publish in the September 22 issue of PNAS.
Jun 7, 2019 • 5min
Seeing inside cells
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health works to characterize the fundamental principles governing protein geography and movement within cells. Dr. Lippincott-Schwartz talks about her work and her recent election to the National Academy of Sciences.
Jun 7, 2019 • 5min
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner Yoshiro Nagao
"Decreases in dengue transmission may act to increase the incidence of dengue hemorrhagic fever"
Jun 7, 2019 • 5min
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner Karen McComb
"Cross-modal individual recognition in domestic horses (Equus caballus)."
Jun 7, 2019 • 5min
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner Marius Wernig
"Neurons derived from reprogrammed fibroblasts functionally integrate into the fetal brain and improve symptoms of rats with Parkinson's disease"
Jun 7, 2019 • 5min
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner Albert-Laszlo Barabási
"The implications of human metabolic network topology for disease comorbidity"
Jun 7, 2019 • 5min
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner John Rossi
"MicroRNA-directed transcriptional gene silencing in mammalian cells"
Jun 7, 2019 • 5min
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner Raymond Jeanloz
"Fluid helium at conditions of giant planetary interiors"
Jun 7, 2019 • 5min
Interview with Randy Schekman
Randy Schekman, the PNAS Editor-in-Chief, discusses the selection process and history of the Cozzarelli Prize. The Cozzarelli Prize is given annually to six outstanding PNAS articles, each representing one of the major disciplines of the National Academy of Sciences.
