Dr. Bruce Damer is the founding director and chief scientist of the BIOTA Institute. His work has touched on a vast array of topics, ranging from programming some of the first graphic user interfaces for personal computers, to asteroid mining, to establishing the hot spring hypothesis for the origins of life.

Author David Schwartz discusses his book "The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age".

Sanford Simon is the Günter Blobel Professor and head of the Laboratory of Cellular Biophysics at The Rockefeller University. His work spans from pediatric cancer to the motion of individual molecules within the cell.

Noel Goddard is a Principal for the Accelerate NY Seed Fund where she evaluates and performs diligence on applicant companies and their technologies.  Prior to her role with Accelerate NY, Noel directed the formulation R&D for Symbiotic Health, a NYC startup company focused on oral drug delivery of cellular and biologic therapeutics to the lower GI tract.  She also founded a food safety diagnostics company in Calverton, NY, and worked with Sapling Learning, a STEM educational software...

Christopher Gardner is the founder of iValue LLC as well as the author of the highly acclaimed book The Valuation of Information Technology: A Guide for Strategy Development, Valuation, and Financial Planning (John Wiley & Sons), and Measuring Value in Healthcare. Previously he was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP where he led the Information Technology Strategy Group in the New York office. He was also a vice president at Bain & Company and worked at A.T. Kearney where he was...

Tom Hindmarsh Sten is a David Rockefeller Fellow at The Rockefeller University working in the Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior under Professor Vanessa Ruta. He studies how organisms can have different responses to the same stimulus by mathematically modeling and running experiments on the courtship behavior of fruit flys.

Dr. Owen Muir is a psychiatrist at and co-founder of Brooklyn Minds where he uses deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (dTMS) and Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) to treat a wide range of personality and mood disorders. He also is the CEO of Sphere, an insurance technology company focused on improving outcomes and increasing the accessibility of behavior health treatments such as those found at Brooklyn Minds.

Phil Kidd is a postdoctoral researcher at Rockefeller University studying olfaction in the laboratory of neural circuits and behavior. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics at Cornell where he worked under Eric Siggia and Nobel Prize winner Michael Young to model and study the effects of temperature fluctuations on circadian rhythms.

Eric Angel Ramos is a Ph.D. candidate in Animal Behavior and Comparative Psychology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Scientist at Fundación Internacional para la Naturaleza y la Sustentabilid. His research concerns the behavioral ecology and conservation of marine mammals primarily in Belize and Mexico. He conducts research on a variety of marine mammals including bottlenose dolphins and Antillean manatees throughout coastal and offshore habitats using passive acoustic...

In this episode, we interview Professor Marcelo Magnasco, head of The Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University. He is a mathematical physicist turned mathematical biologist who has conducted research in numerous subfields ranging from thermodynamics and statistical mechanics to computational neuroscience, to dolphin communication and behavior.   DISCORD: https://discord.gg/7Yq2ueBFGT​ EPISODE LINKS: The Rockefeller University Website:...