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Prof. Su Guo, Professor of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at UCSF
April 03, 2021

Toward Molecular Genetic Dissection of Neural Circuits For Emotional and Motivational Behaviors, Identification of a brain center whose activity discriminates a choice behavior in zebrafish, Identification of environmental stressors and validation of ligh

Prof. Cecilia Lunardini, Professor of Physics at Arizona State University.
April 01, 2021

Dirac and Majorana neutrino signatures of primordial black holes, Pre-supernova neutrinos: directional sensitivity and prospects for progenitor identification, and A concordance scenario for the observation of a neutrino from a Tidal Disruption Event. Pro

Prof. Howard Fields, Professor Emeritus, Neurology at UCSF
March 30, 2021

A Motivation-Decision Model of Pain: The Role of Opioids, Understanding opioid reward, How expectations influence pain, and the role of placebo effect in clinical trial design for CNS diseases. Prof. Howard Fields is Professor Emeritus, Neurology at UCSF

Prof. Itay Goldstein, Professor of Finance and Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
March 28, 2021

The Real Effects of Financial Markets, Trading frenzies, Feedback Effects, Asymmetric Trading, and the Limits to Arbitrage, Financial Crises: Fundamentals vs. Panic, Investor flows and fragility in corporate bond funds, and Financial Fragility in the COVI

Prof. Richard Lebed, Professor of Physics at Arizona State University.
March 26, 2021

The relationship between quarks and hadrons, Heavy-Quark QCD Exotica, and Exotics in the Dynamical Diquark Model Prof. Richard Lebed is Professor of Physics at Arizona State University.  His research involves studying the properties of, and interacti

Prof. Ryan Hickox, Professor of Astronomy at Dartmouth College
March 24, 2021

Black hole variability and the star formation-AGN connection, Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei, A Large Population of Luminous Active Galactic Nuclei Lacking X-ray Detections, and Cosmic evolution of supermassive black holes Ryan Hickox is a Professor of A

Prof. Maria Kazachenko, Assistant Professor of Astrophysical & Planetary Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder
March 22, 2021

Challenges and Advances in Modeling of the Solar Atmosphere, The Coronal Global Evolutionary Model, Active Region Irradiance during Quiescent Periods, and Inferring depth-dependent plasma motions from surface observations using the DeepVel neural network

Prof Erik Berglöf, Professor of economics at the London School of Economics.
March 20, 2021

Tackling the pandemic globally, the challenges for developing countries and risk management for future pandemics Prof Erik Berglöf is professor of economics at the London School of Economics. He is also the Chief Economist of the Asian Infrastructure Inve

Prof. Scott Baraban, Professor & Chair in Neuroscience Research, UCSF
March 18, 2021

Persistent Seizure Control in Epileptic Mice Transplanted With Gamma Aminobutyric Acid Progenitors, Clemizole and modulators of serotonin signalling suppress seizures in Dravet syndrome, Phenotypic analysis of catastrophic childhood epilepsy genes: The Ep

Prof. Paul Taylor, Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt university
March 16, 2021

Taking Postracialism seriously: From Movement Mythology to Racial Formation Prof. Paul Taylor, who is professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt university. Prof. Taylor focuses on the Philosophy of race. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scien