The Journal Club

Beimnet Kassaye

This podcast is structured as a short scientific journal club where I will discuss scientific papers and relate their major findings. Generally, journal clubs have a scientific audience ranging from college science students to university professors. And the communication during the sessions is of scientific jargon that is very niche to the field of study. For this podcast, I try very hard to use everyday language to explain science. It is not going to be easy, but it will get better over time. I am also a science student, so in this podcast, we learn science together!

  1. 2024/12/24

    New brain cells and how they join the old

    In this episode, I cover a paper by Kochan et al., 2024. The title of the paper is "Enhanced mitochondrial fusion during a critical period of synaptic plasticity in adult-born neurons ." Here is the link for the paper https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38582081/ Here is the webpage of the Bergami lab: https://bergami-lab.com. You may access other publications and the current focuses of their lab by following the link.

    20 分钟
  2. #18 Housekeeping in the schizophrenic brain with Katy Bjornson

    2024/12/10

    #18 Housekeeping in the schizophrenic brain with Katy Bjornson

    Katy shares one of her graduate school papers on how a cell clean-up mechanism improves cognition and its consequences in schizophrenia. Here is a link to the paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39019008/ And here is the Cahill lab https://cahilllab.wiscweb.wisc.edu

    29 分钟

  3. 2024/12/05

    #17 The brain where it is not "thinking": regulating the immune response

    In this episode, I cover a paper by Jin et al., 2024. The title of the paper is "A body-brain circuit that regulates body inflammatory responses ." Here is the link for the paper https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38692285/. Here is the webpage of the Kaeser lab: https://www.zukerlab.com. You may access other publications and the current focuses of their lab by following the link.

    29 分钟
  4. #16 Dopamine in psychosis and substance use disorder with Loren Peeters

    2024/11/25

    #16 Dopamine in psychosis and substance use disorder with Loren Peeters

    Loren Peeters shares her graduate paper titled Effects of positive mGlu5 modulation on D2 signaling and nicotine-conditioned place preference: Mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance in a transgenerational model of drug abuse vulnerability in psychosis. Here is the link for the paper https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39462877/. You can follow the full-text links. Here is the webpage of the Brown lab at East Tennessee State University: https://brownlabetsu.weebly.com You may access other publications and the current focuses of their lab by following the link.

    34 分钟

  5. 2024/11/20

    #15 Dopamine as we move and pursue

    In this episode, I cover a paper by Cai et al., 2024. The title of the paper is "Dopamine dynamics are dispensable for movement but promote reward responses ." Here is the link for the paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08038-z.epdf?sharing_token=iaTQaNGlwJ3U0t63gRdvoNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MqwcJmJFCUL7uZ_15TPCZ8espe7y0UtGVKs-OYDW0-m_RyOV3e_4j76PM8ppXJi_A_Epvvz9vVyfGlJxd6RlTQ6xjr5ibCAnzJu4zd5TWqCcvRdGOeu2w-VcIdKNtclgQ%3D. Here is the webpage of the Kaeser lab: https://kaeser.hms.harvard.edu. You may access other publications and the current focuses of their lab by following the link.

    22 分钟

  6. 2024/11/07

    # 14 Length of daylight alters potassium channel expression in our serotonin neurons

    In this episode, I cover a paper by Giannoni-Guzman et al., 2020. The title of the paper is "Circadian photoperiod alters TREK-1 channel function and expression in dorsal raphe serotonergic neurons via melatonin receptor 1 signaling ." Here is the PubMed link for the article https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33210730/. You may access the paper by clicking on the icons under the "Full Text Links" tab. Here is the webpage of the McMahon lab: https://www.mcmahonlab.org. You may access other publications and the current focuses of their lab by following the links. The music for this podcast was composed by Marko Krtinic, and if you would like to check out his work and support him, please visit his Spotify account at https://open.spotify.com/artist/6bJaFvgKIirKMoox9cGHWC?si=_Ou5UC-BRXebl_S7AH-kGg.

    10 分钟

  7. 2024/07/10

    #13 Length of daylight and positive mood: the serotonin story

    In this episode, I cover a paper by Green et al., 2015. The title of the paper is "Photoperiod Programs Dorsal Raphe Serotonergic Neurons and Affective Behaviors." Here is the PubMed link for the article https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25959961/. You may access the paper by clicking on the icons under the "Full Text Links" tab. Here are the webpages of Dr. McMahon and Dr. Grueter respectively: https://www.mcmahonlab.org and https://www.vumc.org/grueter-lab/welcome-grueter-lab. You may access other publications and the current focuses of their lab by following the links. The music for this podcast was composed by Marko Krtinic, and if you would like to check out his work and support him, please visit his Spotify account at https://open.spotify.com/artist/6bJaFvgKIirKMoox9cGHWC?si=_Ou5UC-BRXebl_S7AH-kGg.

    21 分钟

  8. 2024/07/03

    #12 Seasonal change in daylight on reward and motivation: the dopamine story

    In this episode, I cover a paper by Jameson et al., 2023. The title of the paper is "Photoperiod Impacts Nucleus Accumbens Dopamine Dynamics." Here is the PubMed link for the article https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36781229/. You may access the paper by clicking on the icons under the "Full Text Links" tab. Here are the webpages of Dr. McMahon and Dr. Grueter respectively: https://www.mcmahonlab.org and https://www.vumc.org/grueter-lab/welcome-grueter-lab. You may access other publications and the current focuses of their lab by following the links. The music for this podcast was composed by Marko Krtinic, and if you would like to check out his work and support him, please visit his Spotify account at https://open.spotify.com/artist/6bJaFvgKIirKMoox9cGHWC?si=_Ou5UC-BRXebl_S7AH-kGg.

    23 分钟
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This podcast is structured as a short scientific journal club where I will discuss scientific papers and relate their major findings. Generally, journal clubs have a scientific audience ranging from college science students to university professors. And the communication during the sessions is of scientific jargon that is very niche to the field of study. For this podcast, I try very hard to use everyday language to explain science. It is not going to be easy, but it will get better over time. I am also a science student, so in this podcast, we learn science together!

信息

  • 创作者
    Beimnet Kassaye
  • 活跃年份
    2024年
  • 单集
    19
  • 分级
    儿童适宜
  • 版权
    © Beimnet Kassaye 2024
  • 节目网站
    The Journal Club