Videos tagged with "genetics"

with Nobel Laureate James D. Watson

• Behavior,
• Communication,
• Culture,
• How to,
• Physics,
• Strategy,
• education,
• genetics,
• religion

James D. Watson is a molecular biologist celebrated for his discovery of the structure of DNA with Francis Crick for which he received the Nobel...

with Nobel Laureate Richard Axel

• Evolution,
• Memory,
• Perception,
• Smell,
• genetics,
• language,
• neuroscience

Richard Axel is a neuroscientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004 with Linda Buck for his work on the olfactory system. He...

with Terry Sejnowski

• Brain,
• Communication,
• Environment,
• Mechanism,
• Neuron,
• Synaptic Plasticity,
• genetics,
• mind,
• neuroscience

Liars, Lovers, and Heroes combines cutting-edge findings in neuroscience with examples from history and the headlines to introduce the new science of...

with science writer Matt Ridley

• Double Helix,
• Francis Crick,
• James Watson,
• Molecular Biology,
• Physics,
• Protein,
• World War II,
• consciousness,
• genetics

Matt Ridley's biography traces Francis Crick's life from his childhood, through his famed scientific discovery of the genetic code, up to his last...

• Brain Dynamics,
• Brain Region,
• Caveat Emptor,
• Cooperative Research Structure,
• Cortical Thickness,
• Dentate Gyrus,
• Development,
• Dyslexia,
• Exercise,
• I.CAN,
• Imaging,
• Institute for Child and Adolescent Neuroscience,
• Learning,
• Lobe,
• Long Range Synchronization,
• Longitudinal Assessment,
• Model,
• Neural Plasticity,
• Neuropsychology,
• Perspective,
• SILC,
• Salk Institute,
• Synapse,
• TDLC,
• Technology,
• Timing,
• education,
• genetics,
• neuroscience

Books by Terrence Sejnowski: Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are,...

• genetics,
• pancreatic cancer

Influences on Sleep Behavior

• genetics,
• sleep

Sleep genes- how do our genes affect our behavior?

Salk Institute for Biological Studies

• Cancer,
• Glioblastoma,
• Oncology,
• Stem Cells,
• genetics

Glioblastoma: The terminator

• Computers,
• Factory Science,
• Human Genome,
• Inverse Problems,
• Systems Biology,
• genetics

Much Ado About Nothing: Systems Biology and Inverse Problems

• Bacteria,
• Cambridge,
• DNA,
• Francis Crick,
• GC Shift,
• Genetic Code,
• Human Genome,
• Isochores,
• Salk Institute,
• Sydney Brenner,
• genetics

Measure for Measure: The GC Shift and the Problem of Isochores

• Human Genome,
• Human Genome Project,
• Retina,
• Salk Institute,
• genetics,
• vision

All's Well That Ends Well: The History of the Retina

Public Symposium

• Darwin,
• Evolution,
• Natural Selection,
• Origin of Life,
• genetics

Session 3: Origin of Species, Evolution, Human Origins

• Altruism,
• Cell Biology,
• Darwin,
• Evolution,
• Human Biology,
• Social Evolution,
• Social Gene,
• Sociality,
• genetics

Session 4: Consciousness, Complex Cognition, and Language to Culture, Cooperation, Morality and Institutions

• cognition,
• genetics,
• language,
• neuroscience

Books by Terrence Sejnowski: Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are,...

Public Symposium

• Evolution,
• Gene Expression,
• genetics

Public Symposium

• Dark Energy,
• Dark Matter,
• Darwin,
• Einstein,
• Extraterrestrial Life,
• Gravity,
• Relativity,
• Robots,
• genetics

Horace Barlow

• DNA,
• Darwin,
• Francis Crick,
• cerebral cortex,
• consciousness,
• genetics,
• neuroscience,
• selectivity,
• symmetry,
• vision

Horace Barlow is a British visual neuroscientist who has done much work towards understanding human vision and consciousness, beginning with his...

Roel Nusse

• Epiblast Stem Cells,
• Gene Expression,
• Self Renewal,
• Stem Cells,
• Target Genes,
• Wnt Pathway,
• genetics,
• iPS Cells

• Biological Clock,
• Biology,
• Caffeine,
• Chronobiology,
• Diagnostics,
• Sleep Deprivation,
• Social Policy,
• circadian rhythm,
• genetics,
• sleep

Tom Roth is the Director of the Sleep Disorders and Research Center at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at...

• Autoimmunity,
• Hypocretins,
• Light Activated Channels,
• Neurons,
• Neurotransmitters,
• Optogenetics,
• Sleep Deprivation,
• Social Policy,
• genetics,
• narcolepsy,
• sleep

Luis de Lecea is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stanford School of Medicine. His research is focused...

• Biological Clock,
• Gene Cycle,
• Sleep Deprivation,
• Social Policy,
• circadian rhythm,
• education,
• genetics,
• narcolepsy,
• sleep

Allan Pack is the John Miclot Professor in the Department of Medicine and Director of the Center for Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology at the...

A conversation with Paul F. Glenn

• Aging,
• Alzheimer's,
• Epigenetics,
• Funding,
• Glenn Foundation,
• genetics,
• politics

Paul F. Glenn is a philanthropist and founder of The Glenn Foundation for Medical Research, which began The Glenn Consortium for Research in Aging,...

A conversation with Shelley Berger

• Aging,
• Chromatin,
• Epigenetics,
• Evolution,
• Inheritance,
• Mutation,
• Natural Selection,
• genetics

Shelley Berger is the Daniel S. Och University Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Pennsylvania School...

A conversation with Cynthia Kenyon

• Aging,
• C. Elegans,
• Diet,
• Environmental Conditions,
• Evolution,
• Fitness,
• Lifespan,
• Reproduction,
• genetics,
• metabolism

Cynthia Kenyon is an American Cancer Society Professor and Director of the Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging at the University of California,...

A conversation with Pardis Sabeti

• Evolution,
• Lactose,
• Lassa,
• Natural Selection,
• Polymorphism,
• Women in Science,
• genetics,
• music

Pardis Sabeti is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at the FAS Center for Systems Biology at Harvard...

A conversation with Richard Dawkins

• Bee,
• Evolution,
• Group Selection,
• Natural Selection,
• Subversion,
• Theology,
• genetics

*Apologies for the technical difficulties.  The camera was kinder to the Scripps Pier (which is rather lovely) than it was to Bingham or...

Newcastle University

• Aging,
• Damaged Cells,
• Death,
• Life expectancy,
• Maintenance,
• Mechanisms,
• Medical Advances,
• Mortality,
• Nature,
• Repair,
• Stem Cells,
• Systems Biology,
• genetics

Tom Kirkwood is the Director of the Institute for Ageing and Health at Newcastle University. His research is focused on evolution and genetics of...

Santa Fe Institute

• Autotroph,
• Emergence,
• Evolution,
• Origin of Life,
• education,
• genetics,
• language,
• metabolism,
• science literacy

Harold Morowitz was a physicist at the National Bureau of Standards from 1951 to 1953, on the staff of the National Heart Institute from 1953 to...

Harvard Medical School

• Aging,
• Cancer,
• Clinical Trials,
• Developmental Biology,
• Epigenetics,
• Lifespan,
• Methuselah Foundation,
• Mutation,
• genetics,
• politics

Gary Ruvkun is Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and his lab uses molecular genetics, genomics and C. elegans to study and understand...

University of Georgia

• Aging,
• Evolution,
• Fitness,
• Gene Expression,
• Huntington's Disease,
• Mutation,
• Natural Selection,
• Systems Biology,
• genetics

Daniel Promislow is a Professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of Georgia and a Fellow of the American Association for the...

NERE, University of California, Irvine

• Aging,
• Biology,
• Elderly,
• Evolution,
• Mortality,
• Natural Selection,
• genetics

Michael Rose is the Director of NERE and a Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology in the School of Biological Sciences at the Unversity of...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Aging,
• Diabetes,
• Disease,
• Evolution,
• Immune system,
• Lifespan,
• Natural Selection,
• Sirtuin,
• genetics,
• metabolism

Leonard Guarente is the Novartis Professor of Biology and Director of the Glenn Laboratory for the Science of Aging at the Massachusetts Institute of...

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

• Aging,
• Development,
• Environment,
• Evolution,
• Repair Mechanism,
• Systems Biology,
• genetics

Aviv Bergman is is the founding Professor and University Chairman of the Department of Systems and Computational Biology at Albert Einstein College...

Muscle Aging

• Aging,
• C. Elegans,
• Caloric restriction,
• Diet,
• Health span,
• Muscle mass,
• genetics

Monica Driscoll is a Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers University. Her research is focused on...

University of California, Berkeley

• Brain,
• Learning,
• Mechanism,
• Neurons,
• Plasticity,
• Sensory,
• education,
• genetics,
• neuroscience

Dan Feldman is an Associate Professor of Neurobiology in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. His...

The Buck Institute

• Aging,
• C. Elegans,
• Disease,
• Evolution,
• Longevity,
• Stress,
• Variation,
• genetics

Gordon Lithgow is a Professor and the head of the Lithgow Lab at the Buck Institute for Age Research. His research is focused on the relationship...

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

• Aging,
• Breast Cancer,
• Centenarian,
• DNA,
• Disease,
• Longevity,
• Mutations,
• Telemeres,
• genetics

Yousin Suh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Genetics at the Albert Einstien College of Medicine. Her...

Harvard Medical School

• Aging,
• Bacteria,
• C. Elegans,
• Development,
• Drosophila,
• E. coli,
• Ethics,
• Longevity,
• Nausea Project,
• Poison,
• Stress,
• genetics

Gary Ruvkun is Professor of Genetics, Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Harvard Medical School. His lab uses molecular genetics, genomics and C....

Bruce Yankner, Monica Driscoll, Brian Kennedy, Heidi Tissenbaum

• Aging,
• Longevity,
• Model Organisms,
• Mutations,
• Translation,
• genetics

Bruce Yankner is a Professor of Pathology and Neurology at Harvard Medical School. His research is focused on investigating the systems biology of...

University of Colorado

• Aging,
• Fertility,
• Fitness,
• Longevity,
• Mutation,
• Nematode,
• Pleiotropy,
• genetics

Tom Johnson is a Professor of Behavioral Genetics and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado at...

H. Robert Horvitz, Eric Lander, Christopher A. Walsh, Pamela Sklar, Catherine Dulac

• Epigenetics,
• Schizophrenia,
• cognition,
• genetics,
• neuroscience

Introduction from Chair - H. Robert Horvitz, PhDGenes provide the blueprint for how the brain develops and define the components the brain uses to...