Ranked #1
Karl Deisseroth: Development of Optogenetics
Karl Deisseroth: Development of Optogenetics
Dr. Karl Deisseroth gives a retrospective on the development of optogenetics, a technology that has revolutionized neuro... Read more
21 Sep 2016
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21mins
Ranked #2
Ron Vale: Discovering Kinesin
Ron Vale: Discovering Kinesin
Ron Vale explains that serendipity played an important role in his discovery of the motor protein kinesin.https://www.ib... Read more
15 Dec 2016
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19mins
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Conversations in Science with Dan Rather and Chris Field
Conversations in Science with Dan Rather and Chris Field
There are many challenges when it comes to addressing the destructive effects of climate change, and few people are bett... Read more
4 Jan 2017
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15mins
Ranked #4
Michael Hall: The Story of TOR (Target of Rapamycin)
Michael Hall: The Story of TOR (Target of Rapamycin)
Michael Hall describes the discovery of TOR (Target of Rapamycin) protein, the key controller of the size of both indivi... Read more
6 Sep 2017
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24mins
Ranked #5
Ian Baldwin: Making scientific writing painless
Ian Baldwin: Making scientific writing painless
Dr. Ian Baldwin provides his perspective on the best scientific writing practices and gives some tips on how to improve ... Read more
21 Jun 2017
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14mins
Ranked #6
Taekjip Ha: How I became a Scientist - Korean with English subtitles & slides
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The excitement of doing experiments convinced Taekjip Ha to become an experimental biophysicist rather than follow his o... Read more
31 May 2017
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9mins
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Evelyn Witkin: The SOS Response in Bacteria
Evelyn Witkin: The SOS Response in Bacteria
Witkin provides a historical perspective on how working at Cold Spring Harbor shaped her scientific career and led to th... Read more
22 Feb 2017
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16mins
Ranked #8
Conversations in Science with Dan Rather and Jennifer Doudna
Conversations in Science with Dan Rather and Jennifer Doudna
In the last few years, the term CRISPR has exploded on the global scene, and with it UC Berkeley professor Jennifer Doud... Read more
4 Jan 2017
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37mins
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Biology Behind Bars... The Prison University Project at San Quentin
Biology Behind Bars... The Prison University Project at San Quentin
Inmates at San Quentin State Prison share their excitement and gratitude at being enrolled in an introductory biology co... Read more
5 Jul 2016
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Neil Shubin: Finding Tiktaalik, the fossil link between fish and land animals
Neil Shubin: Finding Tiktaalik, the fossil link between fish and land animals
Ever since he was a graduate student, Neil Shubin has been obsessed with finding fossils of the creature that marked the... Read more
19 Jan 2016
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16mins
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Cohen: Visualizing Activity in the Brain
Cohen: Visualizing Activity in the Brain
The pattern of electrical signals propagated through neuronal networks determines brain function. Adam Cohen examines th... Read more
20 Feb 2015
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10mins
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Walter Gilbert: Development of DNA Sequencing
Walter Gilbert: Development of DNA Sequencing
Walter “Wally” Gilbert talks to Ron Vale about developing one of the first methods for sequencing DNA. In the 1970s, Gil... Read more
2 Feb 2015
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15mins
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Jeffrey Friedman: The Causes of Obesity and the Discovery of Leptin
Jeffrey Friedman: The Causes of Obesity and the Discovery of Leptin
http://www.ibiology.org/ibiomagazine/jeffrey-friedman-causes-obesity-discovery-leptin.htmlTalk Overview: Obesity is a hi... Read more
29 Sep 2014
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13mins
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Erling Norrby: DNA and the Nobel Prize
Erling Norrby: DNA and the Nobel Prize
Erling Norrby takes us through the history of the discovery of DNA structure, starting in the 1940s and ending in 1962 w... Read more
12 Aug 2014
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17mins
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The Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology: Meselson & Stahl, The Semi-Conservative Replication of DNA
The Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology: Meselson & Stahl, The Semi-Conservative Replication of DNA
http://www.iBiology.orgTalk Overview: In 1958, Matthew Meselson and Frank Stahl published the "most beautiful experimen... Read more
19 Jun 2014
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7mins
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Robert Ramirez: How I Became a Scientist
Robert Ramirez: How I Became a Scientist
About this talk: When Ramirez was a child, his family moved from northern California to rural Mexico. He did not attend ... Read more
11 Dec 2012
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6mins
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Julie Huber: Microbial Oceanography
Julie Huber: Microbial Oceanography
Huber explains that she was drawn to studying deep-sea microbes because she finds these organisms fascinating and also b... Read more
20 Sep 2012
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Ranked #18
McGee: On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
McGee: On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
McGee recounts how he moved from studying astronomy, to teaching literature and writing, to writing about the science of... Read more
29 Apr 2012
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11mins
Ranked #19
Huxley: How Muscle Contracts
Huxley: How Muscle Contracts
Using an combination of X-ray images, phase contrast light microscopy and electron microscopy, Huxley obtained the first... Read more
8 Nov 2011
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14mins
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Miller: #2 Defending Evolution
Miller: #2 Defending Evolution
Miller outlines his best strategies for engaging, rather than arguing with, those who say they don’t believe in evolutio... Read more
3 Nov 2011
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8mins