Amal Katrib studied biomedical physics and computational biology for her Ph.D. from UCLA. She went on to learn about women's health during her postdoc at the Institute for Systems Biology. Now she's blazing her own trail; she founded a telemedicine platform to virtually connect doctors to Syrian refugees and other marginalized communities (eSAHA) and she's writing a book about how to understand health risks in a world full of fake news. She's incredibly passionate about making the world a...

Blythe Sather is the Senior Director of T cell engineering at Lyell Immunopharma, an emerging company focused on developing new cell therapies to treat cancer! She's also an amazing lady scientist. We talk about what its like to create a ground-breaking, paradigm-shifting new medicine, the importance of mentorship, and her longterm goals of running her own company one day.

Ali is an assistant professor at the University of Washington and a principle investigator at Seattle Children's Research Institute. Her research looks at changes in the placenta during pregnancy. We talk about her career in science, what we know and don't know about pregnancy, and how certain substances like pthalates (in soft plastics) can have an impact on the developing fetus. I hope you learn something new about this under-studied area of molecular biology! Support this podcast:...

Dani Bergey is a former research scientist and full time biological illustrator. We talk about animation, COVID, evolutionary biology and the scientists who inspire her! Join us for our first podcast episode, and forgive us as we learn to master our A/V skills. More episodes to come! Things we talk about: AlphaGo - The Movie Cognition Studio Inc DeepMind AI Podcast E. O. Wilson's The Meaning of Human Existence Raoul Marks (animator) The Mandalorian's "Volume" Production Video Support this...