The Molecular and Structural Basis of Age Related Synaptic Alterations in the Central Nervous System

• Aging,
• Brain,
• Caloric restriction,
• Communication,
• Diet,
• Funding,
• Media,
• Research,
• Retina

Melanie Samuel is a Post-Doctoral Associate in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. Her research is focused on...

University of California, Berkeley

• Aging,
• Caloric restriction,
• Disease,
• Media,
• Nutritional Science,
• Sirtuins,
• metabolism

Danica Chen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutritional Science and Toxicology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research is...

Regulation of Wnt Signaling in Adult and Aged Stem Cells by Co-Activators and Epigenetic Modifications

• Aging,
• Bone Density,
• Caloric restriction,
• Disease,
• Funding,
• Life span,
• Media,
• Muscle

Thomas Rando is a Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is also the Chief...

The Double-Edged Sword of Cellular Senescence

• Aging,
• Caloric restriction,
• Cancer,
• Disease,
• Epigenetics,
• Media,
• Mutation,
• Technology

Judith Campisi is a Professor at the Buck Institute and holds a position at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research is focused on...

Hugh Downs, Claudia Dreifus, Ann Druyan, Lucy Hawking and Neil deGrasse Tyson in conversation with Roger Bingham

• Carl Sagan,
• Media,
• Rightful Place,
• Science and Society

This Is Your Brain on Politics, continued

• Agnosticism,
• Atheism,
• Common Sense,
• Culture,
• Media,
• Television,
• This is Your Brain on Politics,
• politics,
• religion

Sir Harold Kroto is Francis Eppes Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State University. In 1996, he was awarded the...

This is Your Brain on Politics, continued

• Culture,
• Media,
• Science Writing,
• Science and Journalism,
• Scientific Trends,
• This is Your Brain on Politics,
• Work Force,
• politics

Sheril Kirshenbaum is co-author of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future with Chris Mooney describing the growing...

Krauss, Lederman, Mooney, Kirshenbaum, Shermer, Golomb, Kroto

• Communication,
• Culture,
• Media,
• This is Your Brain on Politics,
• politics,
• science education

Panel: This is Your Brain on Politics, continuedWith Lawrence Krauss, Leon Lederman, Chris Mooney, Sheril Kirshenbaum, Michael Shermer, Beatrice...