Dr. Diana Perkins, UNC-Chapel Hill
Dr. Clark Jeffries, Renaissance Computing Institute & UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy
Guests: Dr. Diana Perkins, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UNC-Chapel Hill, Director, OASIS; and Dr. Clark Jeffries, Renaissance Computing Institute & UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy
Topics: The genetic basis of schizophrenia, early intervention in schizophrenia, discovery of very small pluripotent stem cells in human peripheral blood
Guests: Dr. Alison Motsinger-Reif, assistant professor, Bioinformatics Research Center, NCSU, and Dr. David Reif, statistician, National Center for Computational Toxicology, EPA, RTP
Topics: Bioinformatics, pharmacogenomics, toxicogenomics, ToxPi (Toxicological Priority Index), married scientists
Dr. Alison Motsinger-Reif, bioinformaticist, NC State University Dept. of Statistics
Dr. David Reif, statistician, National Center for Computational Toxicology, EPA
Alison’s NCSU Dept. of Statistics faculty page
Dr. David Reif, statistician, National Center for Computational Toxicology, EPA
UNC study links chemotherapy response to heritable factors
EPA Speakers Bureau profile of David
Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers
A Special Edition of Radio In Vivo featuring a recent keynote speech on the importance of teamwork in science, by Dr. Joseph DeSimone, Professor of Chemistry at UNC and NCSU and Founder & Scientific Advisor of Liquidia Technologies
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| Dr. Joseph DeSimone, UNC/NCSU Chemistry; Founder & Scientific Advisor, Liquidia Technologies | |||||||||
Guest: Dr. Harald Ade, Professor and Director of Graduate Programs, Department of Physics, NC State University
Topics: The physics of organic solar cells and light-emitting diodes, new methods of analyzing the composition, morphology and structure of polymeric and electronic materials at the sub-micron scale
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| Dr. Harald Ade, Professor, Physics Department, NC State University | |||||||||
Guest: Dr. Denniz Zolnoun, Director, Vulvar Pain Clinic, UNC School of Medicine
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| Dr. Denniz Zolnoun, Director, Vulvar Pain Clinic, UNC School of Medicine | |||||||||
UNC Advanced Laparoscopy & Pelvic Pain (Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynecology)
Society for Women’s Health Medtronic Prize (awarded to Denniz, May 2011)
Guest: Dr. Dan Ksepka, Research Professor, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University; Research Associate, Department of Paleontology, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
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| Dr. Dan Ksepka, paleontologist, NCSU, NC Museum of Natural Sciences | |||||||||
Guest: Dr. Nancy Allbritton, Professor and Chair, UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
Topics: Research at the UNC/NCSU Biomedical Engineering Department, Nancy’s research program in microsystems engineering, developing new analytical technologies for the biomedical sciences
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| Dr. Nancy Allbritton, Professor and Chair, Joint UNC/NCSU Biomedical Engineering Dept. | |||||||||
Guest: Dr. Bryan Stuart, Curator of Amphibians and Reptiles, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Topics: The history and uses of Museum’s reptile and amphibian collection, Bryan’s research, species discovery and disappearance
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| Dr. Bryan Stuart, Curator of Amphibians and Reptiles, NC Museum of Natural Sciences | |||||||||
Guest: Dr. Rob Dunn, assistant professor of biology, NC State University
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| Dr. Rob Dunn, NC State University, author of “The Wild Life of Our Bodies” | |||||||||
Amazon site for “The Wild Life of Our Bodies” – hardcover and Kindle!
Your Wild Life – site for Rob’s writing projects
Guest: Dr. Meg Lowman, Director, Nature Research Center (NRC), NC Museum of Natural Sciences; Research Professor, NCSU
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| Dr. Meg Lowman, Director, Nature Research Center, NC Museum of Natural Sciences | |||||||||
