After Office Hours Becky Arbiv, Rohin Maganti
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STEM podcast for prospective and current STEM students providing insight into the lives and careers of professors and graduate students. Becky and Rohin are recent alumni of Duke University's Biomedical Engineering Department.
Music Credits: Michelle Dantzler & Courtney Dantzler
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Dr. Brian Kobilka: Receptors, Creativity, Competition, and Collaboration (Episode 21)
Our conversation with Dr. Brian Kobilka, recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University. Dr. Kobilka is a humble, passionate scientist who strongly believes in the importance of collaboration in science. Tune in to hear about his incredible story. See more about him and his work at https://med.stanford.edu/kobilkalab.html.
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Dr. Bruce Donald: Language and Semantics, Robotics, Quantum Mechanics, Drug Design, and Caffeine (Episode 20)
Our conversation with Dr. Bruce Donald, James B. Duke Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Chemistry and Professor of Biochemistry and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. Dr. Donald is also the founder of Ten63 Therapeutics, whose mission to is to “Drug the Undruggable.” See more about Dr. Donald at https://users.cs.duke.edu/~brd/
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Dr. Hashim Al-Hashimi: Biological Computation, Turing Machines, and the Discovery of the Double Helix (Episode 19)
Our conversation with Dr. Hashim Al-Hashimi, James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry and Director of the Center for RNA Biology at Duke University. Dr. Al-Hashimi was the recipient of the National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology in 2020. See more about Dr. Al-Hashimi at https://www.biochem.duke.edu/hashim-m-al-hashimi-primary and his research at https://sites.duke.edu/alhashimilab/.
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Dr. Avi Loeb: Aliens, Astrophysics, Philosophy, and the Discovery of Oumuamua (Episode 18)
Our conversation with Dr. Avi Loeb, the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard university, Director, Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC), Founding Director, Black Hole Initiative (BHI), and author of the New York Times best seller Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth. Buy “Extraterrestrial”: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth at: https://www.amazon.com/Extraterrestrial-First-Intelligent-Beyond-Earth-ebook/dp/B081TTY4NX. See more from Dr. Loeb at: https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/.
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Season 2 Episode 6: Dr. Shaundra Daily
Our conversation with Dr. Shaundra Daily, Associate Professor of the Practice in the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science departments. Tune in to hear about her passion for engineering better learning environments, promoting diversity in tech, and pursuing unique approaches to fostering a more inclusive and equitable world in STEM.
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Season 2 Episode 5: Dr. Jessilyn Dunn
Tune in to hear our conversation with Dr. Jessilyn Dunn, Assistant Professor of BME, ECE, and Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at Duke University. She speaks about the ongoing wearable-centered research projects she is pursuing in her lab, her team's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and her some of her hobbies. Link to Dr. Dunn's research lab: https://dunn.pratt.duke.edu/