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Night Science
Where do ideas come from? In each episode, scientists Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher explore science's creative side with a leading colleague. New episodes come out every second Monday.
Episodes
Night Science30 | Zak Kohane and the abstraction of data
Isaac (Zak) Kohane is the Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. In this episode, Zak talks with us about how medicine…
Night Science29 | Jim Collins and the technology-free Friday
Jim Collins is Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT. In this episode, he talks with us about his radical switch of fields in the early 2000’s, when he…
Night Science28 | Caroline Bartman and the flash(cards) of inspiration
Caroline Bartman is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Princeton’s Chemistry Department, and she is about to start her own lab at the University of Pennsylvania…
Night Science27 | Albert-László Barabási is not afraid to break things
Albert-László Barabási is a distinguished professor at Northeastern University in Boston. In this episode, he tells us how he established the field of network…
Night Science26 | Stuart Firestein on artful ignorance, failure, and neglect
Doing science reminds Stuart Firestein of an old saying: “It’s very difficult to find a black cat in a dark room. Especially when there is no cat.” Before…
Night Science25 | Galit Lahav and the Night Science Tuesday
Professor Galit Lahav is the Chair of the Systems Biology Department at Harvard Medical School, where she creates an environment that is collaborative…
Night Science24 | Eric Topol on thinking big about AI in medicine
Eric Topol is a cardiologist, scientist, and author. Many twitter users will know Eric from his voice-of-reason tweets related to the covid pandemic. While…
Night Science23 | Aviv Regev on how to be generous with your ideas
Aviv Regev is what anyone would call a true science hero. She is not only a pioneer of single-cell genomics and systems biology, but also a great mentor. In…
Night Science22 | Cassandra Extavour and the language of creativity
Cassandra Extavour is a Professor of developmental and evolutionary biology at Harvard University, and she is an Investigator at the prestigious Howard Hughes…
Night Science21 | Daniel Kahneman and the sunk-cost fallacy
Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize for Economics – as a psychologist. His fundamental work in behavioral economics revealed our cognitive biases, such as loss…
Night Science20 | Peer Bork and the scientific candy shop
Peer Bork is a legendary scientist, and these days he’s also the Director of Scientific Activities at the European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL) in Heidelberg…
Night Science19 | Edward Tufte and the Thinking Eye
Edward Tufte (ET) is widely-considered as the guru of data visualisation. He has taught the world about how data is to be communicated. He is best known for…
Night Science18 | Shafi Goldwasser and the good joke
Shafi Goldwasser received the Turing Award – the “Nobel Prize of Computing” – in 2012. She needs no introduction to anyone working in computer science or…
Night Science17 | Uri Alon and our internal tuning fork
Uri Alon, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, is best known for his contributions to systems biology. But Uri is also famous for his…
Night Science16 | Agnel Sfeir on science as an obsession
Agnel Sfeir is a leading scientist in the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, who studies fundamental aspects of the biology of the cell. Agnel…
Night Science15 | Nikolaus Rajewsky on how to think like a bacterium
Nikolaus Rajewsky is the founding director of the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology. After studying Physics, he moved into systems biology, studying…
Night Science14 | Bill Martin on paying attention
Professor Bill Martin from Düsseldorf University is a leading evolutionary biologist, who has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the…
Night Science13 | Steven Strogatz on ruthless simplification
Steven Strogatz, one of the world’s foremost applied mathematicians, is a Professor at Cornell University. While biologists have evolution as a guiding…
Night Science12 | Samantha Morris on building your own creative lineage
Professor Sam Morris from Washington University in St. Louis is elucidating how cells make developmental decisions as they navigate the space of cell identity…
Night Science11 | Ruth Lehmann and the Saturday afternoon experiment
How do world-class scientists make discoveries? “Observing and listening” says Professor Ruth Lehmann, the Director of MIT’s Whitehead Institute. Ruth’s…
Night Science10 | Tom McLeish on the poetry of science
How is science like art? In this episode, we talk about the similarities between the creative processes of science and art with Tom McLeish, a Fellow of the…
Night Science9 | Ben Lehner on how to start your own scientific field
Ben Lehner is a Professor and Coordinator of the Systems Biology Programme at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona. In this episode, Ben talks with…
Night Science8 | Yana Bromberg on getting creative with machine learning
Yana Bromberg is a Professor at Rutgers, where she teaches computers to speak the functional language of biological sequences. In this episode, she talks with…
Night Science7 | Michael Strevens on how science really works
In this episode, Itai and Martin talk to New Zealander Michael Strevens, who – after studying mathematics and computer science – became professor of philosophy…
Night Science6 | Harmit Malik’s dark alleys to discovery
In this episode, Itai and Martin talk to Harmit Malik, Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and President of the Society for Molecular…
Night Science5 | Sarah Teichmann’s artist colony of scientists
In this episode, Itai and Martin talk to Sarah Teichman, Head of Cellular Genetics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Director of Research in the…
Night Science4 | Oded Rechavi: biology’s Indiana Jones
In this episode, Itai and Martin talk to Oded Rechavi, Professor of Radical Science at Tel Aviv University in Israel. Having watched Indiana Jones as a kid…
Night Science3 | Arjun Raj’s bag of tricks
In this episode, Itai and Martin talk with Arjun Raj, Professor of Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania. Arjun understands the functioning of biological…
Night Science2 | Tzachi Pilpel on channeling other people’s minds for creativity
In this episode, your hosts Itai and Martin talk with Tzachi Pilpel, Professor of Genome and Systems Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel…
Night Science1 | Ellen Rothenberg: inhabiting the data
In this episode, your hosts Itai and Martin talk with Ellen Rothenberg, a Distinguished Professor of Biology at Caltech, who always wanted to be Beethoven when…
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Trailer
In this 5-minute trailer, your hosts Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher explain what the Night Science Podcast is all about: conversations with great scientists…