Beyond the Seminar: Conversations in Science
13 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsEver wanted to know what makes a scientist tick? Join Randy Carney in getting to know the invited weekly speakers joining the UC Davis Biomedical Engineering Department‘s Seminar Series. Long form interviews reveal the speaker‘s path along the road to their current position and what motivates them to explore their world with science.
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Prof. Aaron Kyle - Duke Biomedical Engineering
February 28, 2024 05:01 - 34 minutes - 78.4 MBThis week, Prof. Aaron Kyle shares his vision for intentional integration of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into engineering education. He speaks on overcoming his introverted nature to realize his passion for classroom instruction, and how his upbringing informed his career path across the US, from the midwest to Columbia and now his current position at Duke University.
Peymon Ghazi, Ph.D. - CEO of Malcova
February 18, 2023 00:13 - 28 minutes - 64.1 MBDr. Peymon Ghazi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Malcova, a company endeavoring to redefine breast CT scans to better visualize miccrocalcifications, tiny calcium deposits that provide early traces of cancer. He shares how he turned his back-of-the-napkin idea into a start-up company and the challenges faced along the way.
Prof. Noo Li Jeon - Seoul National University - School of Mechanical Engineering
January 25, 2023 13:01 - 38 minutes - 87.6 MBProf. Noo Li Jeon introduces his lab's groundbreaking work in developing organ-on-a-chip microfluidic devices for applications in high throughput drug screening and personalized medicine. He also shares the value of working at the interface between disciplines to discover new and exciting things.
Prof. Richard Corsi - University of California, Davis - Dean of the College of Engineering
September 22, 2022 22:33 - 39 minutes - 89.7 MBDean Rich Corsi describes why his Corsi-Rosenthal box, a DIY indoor air purifying phenomenon, will always be open-source. He also shares his passion for dog training and how he earned the moniker “The Singing Professor". If you'd like to build your own Corsi-Rosenthal box, you can find the information here: https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/news/corsi-rosenthal-box-diy-box-fan-air-filter-covid-19-and-wildfire-smoke
Prof. Carlos Rinaldi-Ramos - University of Florida Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
May 09, 2022 19:01 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MBThis week on the UC Davis Biomedical Engineering Department's Beyond the Seminar podcast, Prof. Carlos Rinaldi-Ramos breaks down his lab's work contributing to an exciting new modality: magnetic particle imaging (MPI). He also shares how representation in research labs illuminated his path to success from his time in Puerto Rico to his current position as chair of the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Florida.
Prof. Sara St. James - University of Utah Radiation Oncology
May 03, 2022 19:17 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBThis week on the UC Davis BME Beyond the Seminar podcast Prof. Sara St. James (University of Utah) breaks down how proton therapy is transforming cancer treatment, particularly for pediatric patients. She also dives in to how her engineering background improves her medical work and her mitten-knitting skills.
Prof. Sheri Sheppard - Stanford Mechanical Engineering
April 18, 2022 15:59 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBProf. Sheri Sheppard is a research scientist and renowned educator at Stanford University. This week on the podcast, she shares how her weaving path through music education, the auto industry, and Burning Man informs her approach to innovating methods to train future engineers.
Prof. Chris Hernandez - Cornell Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
February 22, 2022 17:42 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBProf. Chris Hernandez shares how he broke out of his comfort zone to envision a totally new area of scientific exploration - how does the gut microbiome dictate bone health? - and what he is looking for when recruiting a trainee to his lab.
Prof. Keyue Shen - USC Biomedical Engineering
February 05, 2022 04:25 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MBProf. Keyue Shen breaks down his lab's work to improve cancer therapeutics by focusing not on the cancer cell, but it’s environment, and shares his love of history and how his experience growing up in post-Cultural Revolution China shaped his natural inclination towards science experimentation.
Prof. Liana Lareau - UC Berkeley Bioengineering
November 02, 2021 18:05 - 26 minutes - 24 MBDr. Liana Lareau shares her passion for studying RNA, what is was like to work in Pat Brown's group as a trainee, and explains how it felt in 2020 to be working in a field with direct relevance to the emerging global pandemic. Here is a link to the iBiology video Liana mentions during the podcast: https://www.ibiology.org/genetics-and-gene-regulation/experiment-meselson-and-stahl/
Prof. Beth Pruitt - UC Santa Barbara Bioengineering
October 25, 2021 19:03 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MBDr. Beth Pruitt describes why she is interested in mechanobiology - how cells change their decision making when under load - and how joining the Navy paved a circuitous path to academia.
Prof. Tara Deans - University of Utah Biomedical Engineering
October 18, 2021 23:01 - 41 minutes - 37.5 MBProf. Tara Deans, an associate professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Utah, discusses her innovative ideas at the forefront of synthetic biology and opens up about the challenges of having a baby during graduate school.
Shivang Dave, Ph.D. - CEO of PlenOptika
October 11, 2021 19:56 - 53 minutes - 49 MBBioengineer Dr. Shivang Dave talks about the challenges of developing his start-up company, PlenOptika, and how his childhood trips to India informed his passion to contribute to solving issues in global health.