Project Encephalon Podcast

Project Encephalon

Project Encephalon (PE) is an international, trainee-led non-profit organization for neuroscience enthusiasts and conducts various academic and non-academic neuroscience-related activities while accounting for the interdisciplinary needs of the field.

Episodes

  1. 10/20/2022

    The Quest | AskSAC Ep 3: Dr Leslee Lazar

    For the second episode of this season, we have Prof. Leslee Lazar as our guest. Dr. Leslee Lazar is an assistant professor in the Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences at IIT-Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. He completed his Ph.D. in neuroscience from the National Brain Research Center, Manesar, India, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at the Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center of Harvard Medical School, Boston. As an assistant professor at IITGN, his research focuses on understanding human multimodal touch perception, specifically how higher-level processes like language, emotion, and body image interact with the low-level representations of external tactile stimuli. He is also keen to understand the neural correlates and cognitive mechanisms of aesthetic perception and creativity. He is interviewed by Susan Ajith.

  2. 02/14/2022

    The Quest | AskSAC Ep 2: Dr Bhavana Muralidharan

    The Quest is Project Encephalon's first season of podcast series, an adaptation that contains the Ask SAC (Scientific Advisory Committee) episodes. In our podcast, we will host various guests from around the world: researchers, academicians, entrepreneurs from neuroscience, and allied fields. We shall explore topics around science, mentoring, and career development, finding inspiration and advice by listening to their life stories and challenges. We will also get to have a sneak peek into the way they think and how they are making a difference in this world. For the second episode of this season, we have Dr. Bhavana Muralidharan as our guest. Dr. Bhavana is a Principal Investigator at inStem and is a DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance, Intermediate Fellow. Dr. Bhavana did her Ph.D. from NCCS, Pune in RNA biology. She then did her postdoc at TIFR Mumbai in Prof Shubha Tole’s lab, where she studied chromatin/epigenetic mechanisms of cell fate specification in the cerebral cortex. After this, she was a postdoc at UK- Dementia Research Institute, UCL, London in Prof. Adrian Isaacs lab, on understanding the disease mechanisms of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) using iPSC derived neurons as a human in vitro disease model system, before starting her lab at inStem. Her work currently explores the role of chromatin regulation in building the neural network and how its misregulation could lead to neurodevelopmental disorders like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. She is interviewed by Jhillika Trisal.

  3. 08/25/2021

    The Quest | AskSAC Ep 1: Dr Samit Chakrabarty

    The Quest is Project Encephalon's first season of podcast series, an adaptation that contains the Ask SAC (Scientific Advisory Committee) episodes. In our podcast, we will host various guests from around the world: researchers, academicians, entrepreneurs from neuroscience, and allied fields. We shall explore topics around science, mentoring, and career development, finding inspiration and advice by listening to their life stories and challenges. We will also get to have a sneak peek into the way they think and how they are making a difference in this world. For the first episode of this season, we have Dr. Samit Chakrabarty as our guest. Dr. Samit is a systems neurophysiologist, studying plasticity and interaction between the spinal circuits and their modulators - the sensory inputs from the periphery and descending inputs from the brain. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in Neuroscience at the School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, United Kingdom. He is an alumnus of St. Xavier's College, University of Mumbai, India where he did his bachelor's in Zoology and Biochemistry. He then proceeded to complete his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge and postdoc at Columbia University, New York, and Spinal cord research center, Winnipeg, Canada. He is interviewed by Dr. Harsh Srivastava medical intern from India. The poster is designed by Yamini.

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About

Project Encephalon (PE) is an international, trainee-led non-profit organization for neuroscience enthusiasts and conducts various academic and non-academic neuroscience-related activities while accounting for the interdisciplinary needs of the field.

Information

  • Creator
    Project Encephalon
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2022
  • Episodes
    3
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Project Encephalon
  • Show Website
    Project Encephalon Podcast