Science Minds Podcast

The Science Minds podcast talks to scientists about their work and their scientific journey, including the challenges and rewarding moments along the way. We hope to get a glimpse into the minds of scientists and see a side of them that we may not often see. Hopefully, these conversations can be an inspiration for both scientists and non-scientists, and shed some light onto what really drives successful researchers.

Ben Stecher 06/16/2020

Ben Stecher Benjamin Stecher is a Parkinson's disease patient advocate from Canada. We discuss the importance of focusing on the patient experience and the need for more interactions between patients and the scientists who work in a disease field /episode/index/show/scienceminds/id/14840984

Julie Williams 03/31/2020

Julie Williams Professor Julie Williams is the head of the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK-DRI) at Cardiff University. Her lab focuses on identifying and understanding genes which alter the risk of neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s. /episode/index/show/scienceminds/id/13785434

Pierre Vanderhaeghen 02/06/2020

Pierre Vanderhaeghen Pierre Vanderhaeghen is a group leader at VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research. Pierre’s lab is asking some fascinating questions about what makes our brains human. /episode/index/show/scienceminds/id/12973664

Fred Gage 12/14/2019

Fred Gage Dr. Fred Gage is the Professor of the lab of Genetics and Adler Chair for Age-Related Neurodegenerative Disease at the Salk Institute in San Diego, California /episode/index/show/scienceminds/id/12399932

Vanessa Morais 10/26/2019

Vanessa Morais Vanessa Morais is neuroscientist working at the IMM (The institute of molecular medicine) in Lisbon, Portugal. Her lab is interested in the role of mitochondria in the brain and how mitochondrial dysfunction arises in neurodegenerative conditions. /episode/index/show/scienceminds/id/11790608

Alison Goate 05/24/2019

Alison Goate This episode features Professor Alison Goate, who is a professor of Neuroscience and the Director of the Center for Alzheimer's Disease at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York city. Her lab there studies the molecular genetics of Dementia. Alison and her research team have made significant contributions to our understanding of the genetic causes underlying neurodegenerative diseases, especially Alzheimer's by using human genomic methods such as genome-wide association studies and exome sequencing. /episode/index/show/scienceminds/id/9885971

Sarah Tabrizi 04/07/2019

Sarah Tabrizi This episode features Sarah Tabrizi, who is a Professor of Clinical Neurology at University College, London. As a doctor and a scientist, Sarah's professional career has centered around the devastating neurodegenerative condition - Huntington's Disease. We discuss some of the exciting new work on a potential therapy for Huntington's and touch of many other topics, personal and professional, that are close to Sarah's heart. /episode/index/show/scienceminds/id/9293654

Tara Spires Jones 04/07/2019

Tara Spires Jones In this episode, Vinoy talks to Dr.Tara Spires-Jones, professor at the University of Edinburgh and the UK Dementia Research Institute. /episode/index/show/scienceminds/id/8299517

Silvio Rizzoli 04/07/2019

Silvio Rizzoli In this episode, Vinoy talks to Silvio Rizzoli, professor and director at the Department of Neuro- and Sensory Physiology of the University Medical Center in Göttingen. /episode/index/show/scienceminds/id/7153323

Xinnan Wang 05/26/2018

Xinnan Wang In this episode, Vinoy talks to , professor at Stanford, who visited our center in 2017. Wang earned a MD/MSc from the China Medical University in 2003; a PhD in genetics from the University of Cambridge, UK in 2007; and did post-doctoral work in neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Wang’s has been assistant professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine since 2011. Wang’s research aims to understand the regulatory mechanisms controlling mitochondrial dynamics and function and the mechanisms by which even subtle perturbations of these processes may contribute to neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. . /episode/index/show/scienceminds/id/6631993

Erik Jorgensen 01/15/2018

Erik Jorgensen In this episode, Vinoy sits down with , University of Utah & HHMI, who visited our center in June 2017. Don't miss this conversation with "The World's Foremost Authority on Science"! /episode/index/show/scienceminds/id/6101017

Matthew Holt 12/30/2017

Matthew Holt This episode features Matthew Holt, group leader of the laboratory for glia biology since 2012. /episode/index/show/scienceminds/id/6088553

Susan Schlenner 09/29/2017

Susan Schlenner This episode features Susan Schlenner, who heads the molecular Tregs team in the group of Adrian Liston. She was recently promoted to professor at KU Leuven. /episode/index/show/scienceminds/id/5767491

Joris de Wit 01/29/2017

Joris de Wit Joris de Wit heads the Lab of Synapse Biology at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease research. Links: /episode/index/show/scienceminds/id/5034879

Adrian Liston 01/29/2017

Adrian Liston Adrian Liston heads the lab of Translational Immunology at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research. Twitter - /episode/index/show/scienceminds/id/5034769

Patrik Verstreken 01/20/2017

Patrik Verstreken Patrik Verstreken is the director of VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease research and a professor heading the lab of Neuronal Communication at the KU Leuven. /episode/index/show/scienceminds/id/5008041

Bart De Strooper 01/20/2017

Bart De Strooper /episode/index/show/scienceminds/id/5009010

Bart De Strooper 01/19/2017

Bart De Strooper Our inaugural episode features Professor Bart De Strooper who has been the director of the VIB Center for the Biology of Disease for 10 years and is a professor at the KU Leuven. Bart De Strooper is a highly acclaimed researcher in the field of neurodegenerative diseases. /episode/index/show/scienceminds/id/5004321

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