Guest: Dr. Detlev Erdmann, plastic surgeon, Duke Center for Aesthetic Services Topics: Body contouring (skin reduction following weight loss surgery), the state of plastic surgery
Guest: Dr. Staci Bilbo, director, Developmental Neuroimmunology Lab, Duke University Topics: Developmental neuroimmunology, the presence of immune cells (microglia) in the brain, impact on health and behavior later in life
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
Click to download: Radio In Vivo October 26, 2011
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
Dr. Joseph DeSimone, UNC/NCSU Chemistry; Founder & Scientific Advisor, Liquidia Technologies
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
Dr. Harald Ade, Professor, Physics Department, NC State University
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
Dr. Dan Ksepka, paleontologist, NCSU, NC Museum of Natural Sciences