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CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Alysson Muotri - Comparisons of Human and Ape Stem Cells
CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 22 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAlysson Muotri, Assistant Professor at UC San Diego, focuses on human brain development and evolution, exploring mobile elements as generators of neuronal diversity. He is also interested in modeling neurological diseases using human induced pluripotent stem cells. Series: "CARTA - Center for Ac...
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Katherine Pollard - Human Accelerated Regions in the Genome
CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 25 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsKatherine Pollard, Associate Investigator at the Gladstone Institutes and Associate Professor of Biostatistics at UC San Francisco, specializes in evolutionary genomics, in particular identifying genome sequences that differ significantly between or within species and their relationship to biomed...
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Yoav Gilad - A Comparative Study of Immune Response in Primates
CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 22 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsYoav Gilad is Associate Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago. He studies genetic and regulatory differences between humans and our close evolutionary relatives, with the long-term goal of identifying the genetic basis for human-specific traits, including genetic variation tha...
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Genevieve Konopka -Human-Specific Signaling Networks
CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 23 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsGenevieve Konopka is an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at UT Southwestern Medical Center. The focus of her research is elucidating how developmental signaling pathways are disrupted in neuropsychiatric illnesses, and identifying human-specific pathways that are vulnerable to neuropsychiatri...
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Ajiit Varki - Human-Specific Changes in Siglec Genes
CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 17 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAjit Varki, Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Co-Director of CARTA, and Co-Director of the Glycobiology Research and Training Center at the University of California, San Diego, focuses on a family of cell surface sugars called the sialic aci...
CARTA: Evolutionary Origins of Art and Aesthetics: Closing Remarks - Margaret J. Schoeninger
CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsClosing remarks for CARTA’s Evolutionary Origins of Art and Aesthetics symposium held in March 2009. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Show ID: 16440]
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Christopher Boehm -Social Selection Versus the Notorious Free Rider
CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsChristopher Boehm is Professor of Biological Sciences & Anthropology and Director of the Goodall Research Center at the University of Southern California. He is a cultural anthropologist with a subspecialty in primatology, who researches conflict resolution, altruism, moral origins, and feuding a...
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism- Christophe Boesch - Ecology of Cooperation and Altruism in Humans and Chimpanzees
CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsChristophe Boesch is Director of Primatology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. His research takes an inclusive approach, addressing the biology of chimpanzees from many viewpoints and applying this knowledge to our understanding of the evolution of co...
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Patricia Churchland - Brain-Based Values
CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPatricia Smith Churchland is Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego. The central focus of her research has been the exploration and development of the hypothesis that the mind is the brain. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 21283]
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Steve Frank - Social Evolution in Microbes Animals and Humans
CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSteve Frank is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. One of his current research projects is centered on microbial life history and sociality. The theory of virulence is an example of the broader problems of sociality and life history. Series: "C...
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Peter Hammerstein - Partner Choice Markets and the Evolution of Cooperation
CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPeter Hammerstein is a theoretical biologist at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Given his background in game theory and economics, he is interested in conflict and cooperation at the level of individuals and of genes. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anth...
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Sarah Hrdy - How Humans Became Such ‘Other-Regarding’ Apes
CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSarah Hrdy is currently professor emerita at the University of California, Davis. She is a renowned anthropologist and primate sociobiologist who seeks to understand, step by Darwinian step, how apes could have evolved to imagine and care about what the lives of others might be like. Series: "CA...
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Donald Pfaff - Brain Mechanisms Underlying Behavior that Obeys the Golden Rule
CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDonald Pfaff, head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior at The Rockefeller University, upends our entire understanding of ethics and social contracts with an intriguing proposition: the Golden Rule is hardwired into the human brain. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Trai...
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Peter Richerson - Tribal Social Instincts and Human Cooperation
CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPeter Richerson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis, focuses on the processes of cultural evolution. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Show ID: 21289]
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Elaine Mardis - The Orangu-tan Genome
CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsElaine Mardis, Associate Professor of Genetics at Washington University and Senior Research Scientist at Bio-Rad Laboratories, explores the orangutan genome. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 21980]
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Ed Green - The Neandertal and Denisovan Genomes
CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRichard “Ed” Green, Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, explains how and what we know about our relation to Neandertal Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 21981]
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Evan Eichler - Evolution of Human Duplications: Genomic Instability and New Genes
CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEvan Eichler is an Associate Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington. The long-term goal of his research is to understand the evolution, pathology and mechanisms of recent gene duplication and DNA transposition within the human genome. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic R...
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Alysson Muotri - Comparisons of Human and Ape Stem Cells
CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlysson Muotri, Assistant Professor at UC San Diego, focuses on human brain development and evolution, exploring mobile elements as generators of neuronal diversity. He is also interested in modeling neurological diseases using human induced pluripotent stem cells. Series: "CARTA - Center for Ac...
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Katherine Pollard - Human Accelerated Regions in the Genome
CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsKatherine Pollard, Associate Investigator at the Gladstone Institutes and Associate Professor of Biostatistics at UC San Francisco, specializes in evolutionary genomics, in particular identifying genome sequences that differ significantly between or within species and their relationship to biomed...
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Yoav Gilad - A Comparative Study of Immune Response in Primates
CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsYoav Gilad is Associate Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago. He studies genetic and regulatory differences between humans and our close evolutionary relatives, with the long-term goal of identifying the genetic basis for human-specific traits, including genetic variation tha...
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Genevieve Konopka -Human-Specific Signaling Networks
CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGenevieve Konopka is an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at UT Southwestern Medical Center. The focus of her research is elucidating how developmental signaling pathways are disrupted in neuropsychiatric illnesses, and identifying human-specific pathways that are vulnerable to neuropsychiatri...
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Ajiit Varki - Human-Specific Changes in Siglec Genes
CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAjit Varki, Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Co-Director of CARTA, and Co-Director of the Glycobiology Research and Training Center at the University of California, San Diego, focuses on a family of cell surface sugars called the sialic aci...
Animalia Stupendium: The Common Kingfisher
Stuff To Blow Your Mind - April 24, 2024 19:41 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 5.5K ratingsBored with dragons, the wizard Argomandanies turns his arcane attention to the fantastic fauna of the natural world. Welcome to Animalia Stupendium, a chronicle of Earth’s amazing biodiversity with all the enthusiasm of a fantasy monster book. In this episode, the wizard will consider the subtle...
Dr. Francesca Sargolini
Stories of WiN - April 24, 2024 19:41 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis episode features Margarida’s interview with Francesca who studies the neuronal basis of spatial cognition
What is the Mars Perseverance Rover Doing Now?
Superheroes of Science - April 24, 2024 15:23 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsBriony Horgan, Associate Professor of Planetary Sciences at Purdue University, is working to determine whether we are alone in the Universe, or if life once existed on other planets such as Mars. She explains what the Perseverance Rover is doing on Mars, (like looking for ancient microbial life!...
1668 - Possession of Mineral Rights...Planting Soybeans
Agriculture Today - April 24, 2024 15:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratingsCo-Equal Ownership of Rights Soybean Planting Considerations Safety When Working with Cattle 00:01:05 – Co-Equal Ownership of Rights: Roger McEowen, K-State and Washburn law professor, starts the show by reviewing his recent blog article “Rights of Co-Tenants.” He explains the issues...
Eclipse-O-Rama
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science - April 24, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsOn April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse passed over Mexico, the United States, and Canada. This week on Planetary Radio, we take a trip to The Planetary Society’s Eclipse-O-Rama festival in Fredericksburg, Texas, where hundreds gathered to witness totality. We share the reactions of festival att...
Why am I killing my house plants?
Oxford Sparks Big Questions - April 24, 2024 11:30 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHouse plants can be a cheerful pop of colour in your home. But do you find after the initial burst of life, your plants start to fade, looking sad and unhealthy? M Garrido Davies, from the Department of Biology, shares top tips for helping house plants to flourish, starting with learning m...
The surprising things that hummingbirds eat
Weekly Bird Report - April 24, 2024 11:06 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThe Weekly Bird Report with Mark Faherty can be heard every Wednesday on WCAI, the local NPR station for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and the South Coast. Mark has been the Science Coordinator at Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary since August 2007 and has led birding trip...
Status of Needle Blight in the South | Timber University #263
Natural Resources University - April 24, 2024 11:01 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsOver the past few years, brownspot needle blight and an assemblage of other problematic pathogenic species have garnered increasing concern in pine systems across the South. Join us as we discuss these along with current research efforts centered on this problem with Dr. John Riggins, Mississipp...
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