Episodes
Monday Jun 18, 2018
Episode 008 - Sarah Elizabeth Stewart | Viral Oncologist
Monday Jun 18, 2018
Monday Jun 18, 2018
Alternate Title: Tumor Has It
Emma tells Emlyn about Sarah Elizabeth Stewart, a Mexican-American researcher who convinced the world that cancer-causing viruses were real, and Emlyn tells Emma about how pollution may promote alzheimers and about Bonobo "doulas"! This episode gets a bit raunchy when we talk about bonobos. You have been warned.
Sources:
Main Story - Sarah Elizabeth Stewart
- Obituary by John P. Utz: http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/canres/37/12/4674.full.pdf
- Biography by Carl Fulghieri and Sharon Bloom in Emerging Infectious Diseases: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4012821/
- Obituary by Bernice Eddy: https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article-abstract/59/4/1039/920231?redirectedFrom=fulltext
- Article: “Ludwik Gross, Sarah Stewart, and the 1950s discoveries of Gross murine leukemia virus and polyoma virus” by Gregory J. Morgan https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/science/article/pii/S1369848614000946
- The tale of the great cuckoo egg by George Klein. https://www.nature.com/articles/22906
Women who werk
Shoutout #1
- “Dirty air can harm your brain and stress the body” by Lindsey Konkel: https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/dirty-air-can-harm-your-brain-and-stress-body
- L. Calderón-Garcidueñas et al. Hallmarks of Alzheimer disease are evolving relentlessly in Metropolitan Mexico City infants, children and young adults. APOE4 carriers have higher suicide risk and higher odds of reaching NFT stage V at ≤ 40 years of age. Environmental Research.Vol. 164, July 2018, p. 475. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2018.03.023.
Shoutout #2
- Pregnant bonobos get a little delivery help from their friends: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pregnant-bonobos-get-little-delivery-help-their-friends?tgt=nr
- E. Demuru, P.F. Ferrari and E. Palagi. Is birth attendance a uniquely human feature? New evidence suggests that bonobo females protect and support the parturient. Evolution and Human Behavior. Published online May 9, 2018. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.05.003.
Thursday Jun 14, 2018
Episode 000 - STEM Fatale Promo
Thursday Jun 14, 2018
Thursday Jun 14, 2018
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Monday Jun 04, 2018
Episode 006 - Rita Levi-Montalcini | Neurobiologist
Monday Jun 04, 2018
Monday Jun 04, 2018
Alternate Title: NERVE-ana: In Utero
Emma tells Emlyn about the Italian neurobiologist and nobel laureate, Rita Levi-Montalcini, and Emlyn tells Emma about the mathematical rules of living cells and about males that choose very, very bad mates.
Sources
Main Story - Rita Levi Montalcini
- Biography in Treccani http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/rita-levi-montalcini_(Dizionario-Biografico)/
- Biography in Neurological Sciences https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10072-013-1303-2
- Obituary: https://source.wustl.edu/2013/01/obituary-nobel-laureate-rita-levimontalcini/
- Biography in Trends in Cell Biology https://www.cell.com/trends/cell-biology/fulltext/S0962-8924(04)00143-6?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0962892404001436%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
- Biography in Nature https://www.nature.com/news/2009/090401/full/458564a.html
Women who werk
Shoutout #1
- Robyn P. Araujo, Lance A. Liotta. The topological requirements for robust perfect adaptation in networks of any size. Nature Communications, 2018; 9 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04151-6
- Queensland University of Technology. "Math sheds light on how living cells 'think'." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 2 May 2018. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180502094636.htm
Shoutout #2
- Shevy Waner, Uzi Motro, Yael Lubin, Ally R. Harari. Male mate choice in a sexually cannibalistic widow spider. Animal Behaviour, 2018; 137: 189 DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.01.016
- American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. "Brown widow male spiders prefer sex with older females likely to eat them afterwards." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 30 April 2018.
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Monday May 21, 2018
Episode 004 - Barbara McClintock | Cytogeneticist
Monday May 21, 2018
Monday May 21, 2018
Alternate Title: The A-MAIZE-ing Race
Emma tells Emlyn about the "Mother of Chromosomes," Barbara McClintock, and Emlyn tells Emma about the Bajau people and why male fruit flies like to mate. This episode gets a bit raunchy when we talk about fruit flies. You have been warned.
Sources:
Main Story - Barbara McClintock
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A Feeling for the Organism by Evelyn Fox Keller
- The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control by Nathaniel C. Comfort
- The Barbara McClintock Papers - NIH https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retrieve/Narrative/LL/p-nid/45
- Biography by Cold Spring Harbor Labs http://library.cshl.edu/sp/scientists/barbara_mcclintock/mcclintock_biography.html
- Biography by American National Biography http://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1302550
Women who werk
Shoutout #1
- Larger spleens may help ‘sea nomads’ stay underwater longer: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/larger-spleens-help-bajau-divers-stay-underwater-longer?tgt=nr
- M. Ilardo et al. Physiological and genetic adaptations to diving in sea nomads. Cell. Published online April 19, 2018. doi:10/1016/j.cell.2018.03.054
Shoutout #2
- Male Fruit Flies Love to Cum, and Turn to Alcohol If They Can't: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43b87b/male-fruit-flies-love-to-cum-and-turn-to-alcohol-if-they-cant
- S. Zer-Krispil et al. Ejaculation induced by the activation of Crz neurons is rewarding to Drosophila males. Current Biology. Vol. 28, May 7, 2018. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.03.039.
Trivia
Article: “Almost a Fellow…” by the Royal Society
http://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science/2012/03/08/almost-a-fellow/