Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine: Recent Episodes
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In this week’s episode of the YJBM Science News podcast, co-hosts Hanna and Roxanna explore papers that take us all around different organs in the body! Can we 3D print functional blood vessels? How does the brain spy on our organs? Find out the answers to these questions and more as we discuss recent Yale-affiliated research in biology and medicine.Papers featured in this episode:"Development and deployment of a functional 3D-bioprinted blood vessel”: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-93276-yhttps://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/scientists-successfully-implant-bioprinted-aorta-in-rats/"Typhoid toxin causes neuropathology by disrupting the blood–brain barrier”:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-025-02000-zhttps://news.yale.edu/2025/05/09/how-typhoid-fever-triggers-severe-neurological-symptoms“Adaptation to Volumetric Compression Drives an Apoptosis-Resistant and Invasive Phenotype in Liver Cancer”:https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-24-0859https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/new-study-finds-that-physical-pressure-escalates-liver-cancer-aggression/“The subfornical organ is a nucleus for gut-derived T cells that regulate behaviour”:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09050-7https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01655-2https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/t-cells-take-up-residence-in-the-healthy-brain-via-a-gut-fat-brain-axis/Read more about YJBM at:https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/ Follow us on instagram!https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/
Get insight into the work that went into the most recent YJBM issue, ‘Kinase Signaling’! In this episode, our hosts Shivesh Shourya and Shivani Dayal speak to this issue’s deputy editors Ingrid Heumann and Rahul Gupta to discuss early challenges in the process of creating this issue, publishing new work in the basic sciences, and future directions in the field of kinase signaling, and what they hope readers take away from this issue.Read the “Kinase Signalling” issue:https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/kinase-signaling-is-focus-of-the-march-2025-yjbm-issue/Read more about YJBM at:https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/ Follow us on instagram!https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/
This week’s episode of YBJM Science News discusses how our surroundings impact a variety of health outcomes. From air pollutants to sleep quality to pharmacy access and more, join Roxanna and Hanna as they discuss recent Yale-affiliated research in biology and medicine. Papers featured in this episode and associated links:“Early-Life Exposure to Air and Light Pollution Linked to Increased Risk of Pediatric Thyroid Cancer” - https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/early-life-exposure-to-air-and-light-pollution-linked-to-increased-risk-of-pediatric-thyroid-cancer“Perinatal Exposures to Ambient Fine Particulate Matter and Outdoor Artificial Light at Night and Risk of Pediatric Papillary Thyroid Cancer” - https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP14849 New York Times article on Environmental Health Perspectives journal - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/science/science-journal-environment-trump.html “Reduced Deep and REM Sleep Could be Early Markers of Alzheimer’s” - https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/reduced-deep-and-rem-sleep-could-be-early-markers-of-alzheimers/“Lower slow wave sleep and rapid eye movement sleep are associated with brain atrophy of AD-vulnerable regions” - https://doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.11630 The Atherosclerosis In the Community Study - https://www5.cscc.unc.edu/aric9/ “Groundbreaking Study Highlights Critical Gap in Global Mental Health Research” - https://medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/news-article/groundbreaking-study-highlights-critical-gap-in-global-mental-health-research/“Psychiatric genetics in the diverse landscape of Latin American populations” - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-025-02127-zLatin American Genomics Consortium - https://www.latinamericangenomicsconsortium.org/ “A New Metric to Identify – and Prevent – Pharmacy Deserts” - https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/a-new-metric-to-identify-prevent-pharmacy-deserts/ “Vulnerability Index Approach to Identify Pharmacy Deserts and Keystone Pharmacies” - https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.0715“Timing of RSV Immunization Matters for Infant Protection” - https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/timing-of-rsv-immunization-matters-for-infant-protection/ “Estimated Effectiveness of Nirsevimab Against Respiratory Syncytial Virus” - https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.0380 Read more about YJBM at:https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/ Follow us on instagram!https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/
Why is a lower impact of COVID-19 seen in children compared to adults? In this episode of the YJBM podcast, co-hosts Delyar Khosroabadi and Amy Guan speak with Timothy Watkins, a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Ellen F. Foxman at the Yale School of Medicine. He shares what initially drew him to research and how his journey has evolved across disciplines. Tim also discusses the importance of understanding host-virus interactions, mechanisms underlying heightened nasal innate immunity in children, and some of the challenges he encounters in his work.
This week’s episode of YBJM Science News tackles two important parts of our bodies: skin and brain. From immune cells to lysosomes to brain networks and more, join co-hosts Majo and Hanna as they break down recent Yale-affiliated biological and biomedical research.Papers featured in this episode:Skin Injury May Bring on Food Allergies https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/skin-injury-may-bring-on-food-allergies/Skin damage signals mediate allergic sensitization to spatially unlinked antigen https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.adn0688Neutrophils in the Immune System Help Build Healthy Skinhttps://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/neutrophils-in-the-immune-system-help-build-healthy-skin/?utm_source=YaleToday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=YT_YaleToday-Students_4-7-2025Matrix-producing neutrophils populate and shield the skin https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08741-5Damaged Cell ‘Trash Cans’ May Contribute to Parkinson’s Disease https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/damaged-cell-trash-cans-may-contribute-to-parkinsons-disease/ The bridge-like lipid transport protein VPS13C/PARK23 mediates ER-lysosome contacts following lysosome damage https://www.nature.com/articles/s41556-025-01653-6 Understanding the Transition from Early to Chronic Psychosis https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/understanding-the-transition-from-early-to-chronic-psychosis/Connectome-based predictive modeling of early and chronic psychosis symptoms https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-025-02064-9
This week’s episode of the YJBM Science News podcast is all about papers that identify or help narrow down potential new targets and tools for cancer therapeutics. From protein modifications to autoantibodies to epigenetic markers and more, join co-hosts Majo and Roxanna as they break down recent Yale-affiliated biological and biomedical research.Papers featured in this episode:“Turnover atlas of proteome and phosphoproteome across mouse tissues and brain regions” - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.02.021https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/protein-turnover-mapping-may-offer-clues-for-alzheimers-cancer-treatment/“A lupus-derived autoantibody that binds to intracellular RNA activates cGAS-mediated tumor immunity and can deliver RNA into cells” - https://doi.org/10.1126/scisignal.adk3320https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/lupus-related-antibody-shows-promise-in-enhancing-cancer-treatment-efficacy/“BRCA2 prevents PARPi-mediated PARP1 retention to protect RAD51 filaments” - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08749-xhttps://news.yale.edu/2025/03/26/how-inherited-cancer-risks-can-be-used-effective-personalized-therapy“An in vivo screen identifies NAT10 as a master regulator of brain metastasis” - https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads6021https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/a-genetic-screen-identifies-a-new-master-regulator-of-brain-metastasis/Read more about YJBM at:https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/ Follow us on instagram!https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/
Why do some individuals continue to experience debilitating neurologic symptoms long after their initial COVID-19 infections? How might our own immune systems be the culprit? In this episode of the YJBM podcast, we learn more about the post-acute infection syndrome known as “long COVID” and the challenges associated with trying to understand its underlying mechanisms. Join co-hosts Shivani and Roxanna as they interview Dr. Lindsay McAlpine and Dr. Keyla Sá, researchers at the Yale University School of Medicine, about their work investigating the pathophysiology of long COVID-associated neurologic symptoms. Papers/preprints mentioned in this interview:“Case-Control Study of Individuals With Small Fiber Neuropathy After COVID-19” - https://doi.org/10.1212/NXI.0000000000200244“A causal link between autoantibodies and neurological symptoms in long COVID” - https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.18.24309100 Keep up with Dr. McAlpine’s work:https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/mcalpine/https://medicine.yale.edu/neurology/research/covid-mind-study/https://x.com/mcalpinelabyalehttps://bsky.app/profile/drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social Keep up with Dr. Sá’s work:https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/iwasaki/https://x.com/keylas3https://x.com/VirusesImmunityhttps://bsky.app/profile/virusesimmunity.bsky.social Read more about YJBM at:https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/ Follow us on instagram!https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/
In this week’s installment of YJBM Science News, Majo and Roxanna discuss recent Yale-affiliated research about contraceptives, fertility, and immunology! Can our genetic variants help us predict which birth control method would be the most effective? What can the gut microbiome tell us about the immune systems of multiple sclerosis patients before and after undergoing immunotherapy treatment? Join us as we explore not only the answers to these questions, but also as we learn more about the trials and tribulations of data generation!Papers featured in this episode:“Pharmacogenomics of the Etonogestrel Contraceptive Implant: A Genome-Wide Association Study of Steady-State Etonogestrel Concentrations” - https://doi.org/10.1097/og9.0000000000000066https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/analyzing-genetics-may-lead-to-better-contraceptive-experiences-for-women/"Allosteric inhibition of the IZUMO1–JUNO fertilization complex by the naturally occurring antisperm antibody OBF13" - https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2425952122https://news.yale.edu/2025/03/03/scientists-discover-how-naturally-occurring-mechanism-hampers-fertility“A single-cell atlas of circulating immune cells over the first 2 months of age in extremely premature infants” - https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.adr0942https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/new-insights-into-preterm-infant-immunity-could-inform-care/“Alterations in Gut Microbiome-Host Relationships After Immune Perturbation in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis” - https://doi.org/10.1212/NXI.0000000000200355https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/gut-microbiome-changes-linked-to-multiple-sclerosis-ms-new-study-finds/Read more about YJBM at:https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/ Follow us on instagram!https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/
What do COVID and mono have in common? How can infectious diseases impact our health for life? How does a dancer end up doing basic science research? Join our hosts Isha Yardi and Elaine Yang in conversation with Sasha Tabachnikova about her work as a PhD student in the Iwasaki Lab. Today, she is our guide through the evolving landscape of research on post-acute infection syndromes.Learn about YJBM here: https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/ Viruses and Autoimmunity issue: https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/yjbms-december-2024-issue-focuses-on-viruses-and-autoimmunity/ Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/
Does mRNA play a role in cell migration? Can we use therapeutic vaccines to treat cancers like kidney cancer? Join co-hosts Majo and Roxanna in this week’s installment of YJBM Science News as they discuss the most recent Yale-affiliated biomedical and biological research that answers these questions and more!Papers featured in this episode:“Resolving the three-dimensional interactome of human accelerated regions during human and chimpanzee neurodevelopment” - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.01.007https://news.yale.edu/2025/02/06/study-sheds-light-genetic-changes-shaped-human-brain-evolution“A neoantigen vaccine generates antitumour immunity in renal cell carcinoma” - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08507-5https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/personalized-therapeutic-vaccine-steers-the-immune-system-to-fight-kidney-cancer/“G3BP1 ribonucleoprotein complexes regulate focal adhesion protein mobility and cell migration” - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115237https://news.yale.edu/2025/02/13/feet-first-understanding-how-mrna-helps-cells-walk“A human gut bacterium antagonizes neighboring bacteria by altering their protein-folding ability” - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2025.01.008https://westcampus.yale.edu/news/2025-02-04-the-hidden-battle-in-your-gut-how-one-bacterium-outsmarts-its-rivalsRead more about YJBM at:https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/ Follow us on instagram!https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/
Welcome back to YJBM Science News! Join us as we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, Roxanna and our new host Majo will share some of the most intriguing topics of the past few weeks, including the use of AI in diagnostics, cannabinoids as pain therapy, and more!Papers featured in this episode:“Heart failure risk stratification using artificial intelligence applied to electrocardiogram images: a multinational study” - https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae914https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/new-ai-tool-identifies-risk-of-future-heart-failure/“Nav1.8, an analgesic target for nonpsychotomimetic phytocannabinoids” - https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2416886122https://news.yale.edu/2025/01/21/cannabinoids-offer-new-hope-safe-and-effective-pain-relief“Neural Variability and Cognitive Control in Individuals With Opioid Use Disorder” - http://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.55165https://news.yale.edu/2025/01/17/opioid-use-disorder-might-lead-sticky-brains“Atgl-dependent adipocyte lipolysis promotes lipodystrophy and restrains fibrogenic responses during skin fibrosis” - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jid.2024.12.022https://news.yale.edu/2025/01/29/fat-cells-play-protective-role-fibrosis-developmentRead more about YJBM at:https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/ Follow us on instagram!https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/
Get an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the newest YJBM issue! In this episode, our host Shivesh Shourya sits down with deputy editors RuthMabel Boytz and Evan Navori to discuss December’s “Viruses and Autoimmunity.” From the earliest planning stages to navigating unexpected challenges, discover how this issue came to life—and gain fresh insights into the fascinating intersection of viruses and autoimmune disease.Read the “Viruses and Autoimmunity” issue:https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/yjbms-december-2024-issue-focuses-on-viruses-and-autoimmunity/More about YJBM at:https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/Our Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/
Welcome to the first YJBM Science News of the 2025, and welcome our new host, Roxanna Altus! Join us as we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Roxanna will share some of the most intriguing topics of the past few weeks.Papers featured in the episode:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41556-024-01574-whttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.11.037https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-55902-1https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08341-9More about YJBM at:https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/Our Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/
A few years after the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re still uncovering lessons about how science, communities, and governments can work together to tackle global health challenges. Today, we are joined by Dr. Gonzalo Moratorio, Head of the Experimental Evolution of Viruses Lab at the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo and Associate Professor at the University of the Republic, Uruguay, for a chat about keeping the conversation open between academia and the public, how scientists can shape policymaking, and what the next pandemic might look like.More about Dr. Moratorio’s research:https://worldfellows.yale.edu/person/gonzalo-moratorio/ https://pasteur.uy/en/heads-of-labs-and-units/gonzalo-moratorio/ More about YJBM at:https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/ Our Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/
Welcome to the last YJBM Science News of the 2024! Join us as we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha will share some of the most intriguing topics of the past few weeks.Papers featured in the episode:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-024-02023-4https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54657-5https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciae559https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2024.100498More about YJBM at:https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/Our Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/
What is comparative medicine and why is it important for guiding knowledge of human diseases? How does the brain regulate homeostasis of the body? In this episode of the YJBM podcast, our host Amy interviews researcher and professor Dr. Tamas Horvath about the broad and expanding topic of comparative medicine and his research on how neuroendocrine regulation is important in homeostasis and the development of metabolic disorders.
What can the intricate world of the ovary teach us about overall health? In this episode, we explore the implications of interdisciplinary research and predictive models on drug development with Dr. Hattie Chung, a recently-joined researcher and faculty member at Yale. Dr. Chung studies diverse biological topics through a systems biology lens through which she fosters collaboration and creativity. Come join us and learn about how her research is revolutionizing and driving scientific breakthroughs.
Welcome to the YJBM Science News! Join us as we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha will share some of the most intriguing topics of the past few weeks.Papers featured in the episode:https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/154/Supplement%203/e2024067043N/199726/The-Circumstances-Surrounding-Fatal-Pediatrichttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08048-xhttps://journals.plos.org/digitalhealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pdig.0000651https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08222-1More about YJBM at:https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/Our Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/
How does stress affect the prefrontal cortex? In this episode of the YJBM podcast, host Delyar Khosroabadi speaks with Dr. Amy Arnsten, Albert E. Kent Professor of Neuroscience and Professor of Psychology. Dr. Arnsten shares the experience that sparked her interest in neuroscience, her journey as an undergraduate creating the first neuroscience major at Brown University, and what drew her to study the prefrontal cortex. She discusses dynamic network connectivity, the mechanism of action of guanfacine, and why prefrontal deficits begin to appear in middle age. Dr. Arnsten also offers fascinating insights on how exercise and a healthy diet can benefit the prefrontal cortex.Get to know YJBM at: https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/Integrative Medicine issue: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/issues/471502/Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/
In this special episode of the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine podcast, hosts Shivesh Shourya and Mara Kushelman bring together a remarkable group of individuals transforming spinal cord injury (SCI) recovery through peer mentorship and advocacy. Joining us are Jonathan Sigworth, co-founder of More Than Walking, a nonprofit promoting independent living for SCI survivors; Dr. Benjamin Doolittle, Yale professor and Program Director of the Combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program with a focus on wellness and spirituality in medicine; and Yale medical students Teimur Kayani and Robert Cotter, who have conducted pivotal research on peer mentorship as a valuable intervention for SCI recovery.Throughout the conversation, we explore how peer mentorship helps SCI survivors regain independence, the role of community support in recovery, and the potential for integrative medicine to enhance quality of life for SCI patients. The guests share insights from their personal and professional journeys, discussing the challenges, triumphs, and transformative impact of peer mentorship. Together, they highlight the importance of holistic, community-based approaches to recovery and inspire a reimagining of what’s possible for SCI survivors.For more information, explore the resources below:https://www.morethanwalking.com/https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11426298/https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/spinal-cord-injury/symptoms-causes/syc-20377890https://artofmentoring.net/peer-mentoring/Join us to learn more about the power of peer mentorship in supporting SCI survivors and shaping new pathways to independence.
Can you tell the difference between snake oil and evidence-based medicine? In this episode, meet Dr. James Yu: researcher, editor of multiple journals, father, Yale alum, and radiation oncologist. Dr. Yu shares with our host Elaine Yang how alternative medicine influences patient outcomes, the power of interdisciplinary research collaborations, as well as what embracing technological advancements and artificial intelligence means for cancer care.For more on the CRAP Test: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1879850023000334Get to know YJBM at: https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/Integrative Medicine issue: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/issues/471502/Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/
Welcome to the YJBM Science News! Join us as we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha will share some of the most intriguing topics of the past two weeks.Papers featured in the episode:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2825212 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627324006937 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2412872121 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08047-y More about YJBM at:https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/ Our Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/
Have you ever wondered what’s going on behind the curtains of the newest YJBM issue? Join our hosts Samantha and Mara as they interview the deputy editor for the September issue on Integrative Medicine Charlotte Godfrey, and learn about the process of putting the issue together, as well as her thoughts on integrative medicine and future of complementary therapies.IM issue: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/issues/471502/ More about YJBM at: https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/ Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/
Welcome to the YJBM Science News! Join us as we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha will share some of the most intriguing topics of the past two weeks.Papers featured in the episode:https://www.aamcresearchinstitute.org/our-work/data-snapshot/narrowing-gap https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002834 https://dengue-lineages.org https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00967-X https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adm7966 More about YJBM at:https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/ Our Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/
Welcome to the YJBM Science News! Join us as we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Emily will share some of the most intriguing topics of the past two weeks.Papers featured in the episode:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002808 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-024-01908-2 https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djae196 More about YJBM at:https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/ Our Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/
Welcome to the YJBM Science News! Join us as we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha will share some of the most intriguing topics of the past two weeks.Papers featured in the episode:https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz.14126https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oby.24111https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oby.24107https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adp1720https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2823186More about YJBM at:https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/Our Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/
Welcome to the first episode of YJBM Science News of the Fall 2024 semester! Join us as we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha will share some of the most intriguing topics of the past two weeks.Papers featured in the episode:https://www.jci.org/articles/view/181839https://www.jacc.org/doi/abs/10.1016/j.jacc.2024.05.069https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2406005121Further summer reading:https://www.yalemedicine.org/conditions/long-covid-post-covid-conditions-pcchttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-024-01765-zhttps://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/a-new-kind-of-clinical-trial-bringing-long-covid-research-into-patients-homes/More about YJBM at:https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/Our Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/
With its unique history filled with both triumphs and dark chapters, public health researchers and professionals have an ethical responsibility to examine the past as they aspire to shape the future of public health by conducting effective and ethical health-related research and work today.In this episode, Shivani interviews the esteemed ethicist and historian of Public Health, Dr. Laura Bothwell, who discusses how the history of public health has influenced the present. In this informative conversation, Dr. Bothwell sheds light on the weight of history, and discusses the structural obligation that health professionals have to address inequities and institutional biases and their contribution to many of the public health challenges we face today.Here are some links with more reading related to Dr. Bothwell’s research:https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms1604593 https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMp1604635https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119413431.ch31More about YJBM at:https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/ Our Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/
Feeling lonely in a world more connected than ever? You're not alone.On this episode of YJBM, join our host, Shankeri Vijayakumar, as she chats with our guest Blake Waranch about how loneliness is affecting our lives today. Whether you're feeling a bit isolated or just want to understand more about why loneliness is such a big deal right now, this episode has something for everyone. Tune in to learn more about what’s causing this silent epidemic and how we can all work towards a more connected and supportive world.Links and resources:The Dinner Party: https://www.thedinnerparty.org/ Surgeon General’s Advisory on Loneliness: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/surgeon-general-social-connection-advisory.pdf “Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World” by Vivek Murthy, MDMore about YJBM at:https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/ Our Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/
Welcome to the last episode of YJBM Science News for the school year of 2023-2024! We are so thankful to all our listeners who were here for our journey. We will continue releasing our other podcast project over the summer, and in the meantime - stay tuned for next year’s Yale Science News, starting in August of 2024!Links:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07407-yhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01870-3https://www.nature.com/articles/s41556-024-01413-yhttps://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.20230849More about YJBM at:https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/ Our Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/
Welcome to this week’s episode of YJBM Science News, where we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha will share some of the most intriguing topics of the past two weeks.Links:https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2319566121https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aeri.20230340https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2320713121https://www.nber.org/papers/w32354
What does it mean to love and care for someone who has a different way of experiencing the world? How can we understand the way emotions may be expressed to us differently than they were before in a relationship? In this episode, our host Shivani has a conversation with researcher, professor, and artist Dr. Joan Monin. Dr. Monin shares her interest and work in the boundaries of how close relationships work, how we provide comfort to one another, and how understanding our relationships help us in older-adult caregiving in the context of dementia onset and recovery.Check out more here: Dr. Monin's Social Gerontology and Health Lab: https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/monin/Dr. Monin’s artwork: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17luwfEFQTh5aftvZcDYhSVAlmcgaJclT?usp=drive_link
Welcome to this week’s episode of YJBM Science News, where we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha will share some of the most intriguing topics of the past week. Links:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccell.2024.03.002https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10826-024-02809-y
Climate change is not only measured in catastrophic events – it has a gradual impact on the individual health of people all around the world. In this episode of the YJBM podcast, Shivani interviews Dr. Kai Chen, an environmental epidemiologist, researcher, and Professor at the Yale School of Public Health. In this interview, Dr. Chen discusses his work, the links between heat exposure and cardiovascular health, air quality and students’ academic scores, and wildfire smoke and mental health outcomes. Links: Disparities in US Heat Vulnerability: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/887792e05ea744d3b085856ca061ef53Dr. Chen's CHEN Lab at the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health: https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/kaichen/February 2024 Article from Dr. Chen: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45901-z
Welcome to this week’s episode of YJBM Science News, where we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha will share some of the most intriguing topics of the past week. Links:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-024-02216-7https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(24)00079-2https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07255-whttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2024.01.031
Welcome to this week’s episode of YJBM Science News, where we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha will share some of the most intriguing topics of the past week. Links:https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm9903https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-05869-4https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07130-8https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101367
Want to learn more about neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, and how scientists learn to combat them? Join the YJBM Podcast for a conversation with Alison Chase, a graduate student in the Lim lab! In her research, Alison focuses on understanding astrocytes' role in SCA1 pathogenesis and the mechanisms underlying regional and neuronal vulnerability in neurodegenerative diseases.Useful links:https://www.limlabyale.com/
Welcome to this week’s episode of YJBM Science News, where we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha will share some of the most intriguing topics of the past week.Links:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07098-5https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.L012036https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl6163
Welcome to this week’s episode of YJBM Science News, where we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha will share some of the most intriguing topics of the past week.Links:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2815361https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2815070https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-023-00170-5
Welcome to the twelfth episode of YJBM Science News, where we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha discuss four of the most intriguing topics of the past week.Links:https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg9196https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adi0673
Welcome to the eleventh episode of YJBM Science News, where we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha discuss four of the most intriguing topics of the past week.Links:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtho.2024.01.012https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291723003732
Welcome to the tenth episode of YJBM Science News, where we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha discuss four of the most intriguing topics of the past week.Links:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2024.01.005https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2023.11.019https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2314699121
Welcome to the ninth episode of YJBM Science News, where we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha discuss four of the most intriguing topics of the past week.Links:https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiad315/7505227https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg8538https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)01443-5https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376871623012784?via%3Dihub
Welcome to the eighth episode of YJBM Science News, where we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. We will be taking a break until the beginning of next semester — but today, our hosts Mara and Samantha discuss two of the most intriguing topics of the past week.Links:https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.3c04844https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02653-5
Welcome to the seventh episode of YJBM Science News, where we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha discuss four of the most intriguing topics of the past week. Links:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01483-5https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(23)00844-9#secsectitle0265https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15248399231169928https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867423012205?via%3Dihub
Welcome to the sixth episode of YJBM Science News, where we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, after a two-week Thanksgiving Break, our hosts Mara and Samantha discuss four of the most intriguing topics of the past weeks.Links:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/epdf/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.123.010640https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-023-01563-zhttps://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2811147https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06746-6
In this episode, we dive into the transformative role of artificial intelligence in healthcare. A panel of Yale students of diverse backgrounds and expertise discuss AI's potential to revolutionize diagnostics, treatment planning, and patient care. Hear real-world examples and insights into the ethical considerations and challenges of integrating AI into medical practices.
Have you ever wondered what’s going on behind the curtains of the newest YJBM issue? Join our host Samantha as she interviews the deputy editors Ryland Mortlock and Conrad Safranek, and learn about the process of putting the issue together, as well as their thoughts on the future of big data and AI in science and medicine.
Welcome to the fifth episode of YJBM Science News, where we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha discuss three of the most intriguing topics of the past week. Instead of a regular collection of several stories, this week we will cover two intriguing research papers in neurobiology.Links:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-42353-9https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/trc2.12431https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2811150
Welcome to the third episode of YJBM Science News, where we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha discuss three of the most intriguing topics of the past week. Instead of a regular collection of several stories, this week we will cover two intriguing research papers in neurobiology.Links:https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adi1617https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf3786
Welcome to the third episode of YJBM Science News, back after a break, where we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha discuss three of the most intriguing topics of the past week.Links:https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adi7829https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2307721120https://www.cell.com/cell-chemical-biology/fulltext/S2451-9456(23)00332-Xhttps://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(23)00426-3/fulltext
Welcome to the second episode of YJBM Science News, where we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Hopefully, you’re enjoying this October Recess! Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha discuss three of the most intriguing topics of the past week. Just a heads up, our next episode will come out Oct 30th and will cover the past two weeks. Links:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2809900https://seas.yale.edu/news-events/news/researchers-find-clues-obesitys-impact-breast-cancerhttps://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2023/09/18/JNEUROSCI.0916-23.2023https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/JAHA.123.030331https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/large-nih-grant-supports-crispr-based-gene-therapy-development-for-brain-diseases
Welcome to the very first episode of YJBM Science News, where we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha discuss three of the most intriguing topics of the past week.Useful resources:https://www.komen.org/breast-cancer/risk-factor/understanding-risks/gail-method/https://www.annfammed.org/content/21/5/408
In this episode of the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine Podcast, our hosts dive into the profound and often overlooked consequence of global warming: the rising threat of emerging diseases. Join us as we uncover the intricate relationship between climate change and the proliferation of new, potentially deadly illnesses. We'll explore how shifts in temperature, habitat disruption, and the movement of disease vectors are paving the way for previously unknown health risks, and how we as a society should adapt to these new risks.
In this episode of the YJBM Podcast, hosts James and Ellen discuss an article examining how we might improve recovery among women following heart bypass surgery (https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/improving-heart-bypass-surgery-recovery-for-women-takes-innovation-and-representation-in-research/), and an article examining the factors linked to suicidal thoughts among veterans throughout the Covid-19 Pandemic (https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/study-purpose-in-life-and-social-connection-protect-against-suicidal-thoughts-and-behaviors-during-covid-19-pandemic/).
In the very first bitesize research highlights episode of the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine Podcast, podcast host Ellen brings you a summary of an exciting research article from the 2022 December Antimicrobial Resistance issue of the YJBM. In this article, Franziska Winzig and colleagues from Yale University examine the possibility of treating antimicrobial resistant achromobacter infections using phage therapy. Find the full article here: Focus: Antimicrobial Resistance: Inhaled Bacteriophage Therapy for Multi-Drug Resistant Achromobacter - PMC (nih.gov) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9765334/
In this episode, Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine Podcast hosts Emma and Elizabeth interview Carrie Flynn, a MD/PhD candidate in Yale's Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, on her perspective on rare diseases both as a physician scientist studying rare amoeba born-diseases and as a rare disease patient.
To kick off our content following YJBM’s March 2021 Issue on Preventative Medicine, Wes interviews Dr. Emma Pierson. Dr. Pierson is a computationalist and multidisciplinary scientist pairing novel methodologies with equally novel datasets to understand human health disparity and racial and economic inequality. Dr. Pierson is also a repeat contributor to science in the news, writing for outlets such as The New York Times, FiveThirtyEight, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post, among others. Alongside these contributions, Dr. Pierson frequently posts to her personal blog (linked below) and has been recognized in Forbes’ 30 under 30 in Science. While seeking to understand the trajectory and aims of Dr. Pierson’s science and various contributions, our conversation moves across a number of topics. Highlights include a discussion on transitions between research fields, Dr. Pierson’s personal and familial inspirations for studying human health, traits of good scientific mentors, and cross pollination between academia and industry. Although some of her work is described here in brief, its impact can be seen more clearly in the journal articles themselves and the many associated pieces she has written for a general audience. To those who’ve kept up with empirical research on racial inequality in America over the past year, the Open Policing dataset that Dr. Pierson published will undoubtedly ring a bell. For others, it’s a great place to start. Her research has also included social policy recommendations in response to COVID-19 and a large-scale analysis in the historically overlooked area of Women’s health across temporal cycles of varied length. This expansive work fosters a discussion on the immense challenges and successes of data science, as applied to preventative medicine.
Sources and Related Material:
Pierson, E., Simoiu, C., Overgoor, J. et al. A large-scale analysis of racial disparities in police stops across the United States. Nat Hum Behav 4, 736–745 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0858-1 On the Web: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B58Os2Hb2v__YQ8whdWRULY9mgxxsHoO/view
Dr. Emma Pierson: Personal Website: https://cs.stanford.edu/~emmap1/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/2plus2make5
Wes Lewis (Host): Twitter: https://twitter.com/ai_weslewis
In this episode, co-hosts Kelsie and Victoria Harries discuss "what makes a good mom" from pregnancy to birthing choices. They cover how the definition of a good mom has changed over the past century and how the standards for moms has only increased, along with the number of choices a mother/soon-to-be mother has to make. Kelsie and Vicky also interview their moms to get their take on what being pregnant in the 1990's was like!
In this episode, co-hosts Carrie Ann and Emma discuss six steps in the basic biology of fertilization. They also discuss the history of fertilization research and the often overlooked active role of the egg in the process.
In this installment of our YJBM Sex Education series, hosts Felicia and Chelsea bust some myths surrounding sex for pleasure and go into why humans have sex, the biology and evolution behind orgasms, sex differences in experiencing pleasure, the biochemistry behind pleasure, and the importance of conversations around pleasure in sexual health research and sex education courses.
How do animals use their skin? Why can their skin be so weird? And why can lizards regrow their tails? Learn the answers to these questions and more in this episode of the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine Podcast, where hosts Elizabeth Nand, Kelsie Cassell, Carrie Ann Davison, and Devon Wasche discuss the skin of non-human animals. This episode of the YJBM Podcast is part of our series related to the March 2020 YJBM issue on skin. Visit medicine.yale.edu/yjbm for more information on YJBM and the YJBM Podcast.
Most people appreciate that studying for a PhD in public health is a very difficult and often frustrating endeavor. However, most students don't anticipate getting a PhD at a time when so many people clearly disregard public health experts. In this episode, Mallory Ellingson, a 2nd-year PhD student at the Yale School of Public Health, and Erica Zeno, a 2nd-year PhD student at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, discuss the emotions that come with getting a PhD in epidemiology during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In celebration of 150 years of women at the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and 50 years of women at Yale College, hosts Kelsie, Carrie Ann, and Emma highlight the first seven women to receive PhDs at Yale, the life and scholarship of Otelia Cromwell, the first African American woman to receive a PhD at Yale, and the work of Beatrix McCleary Hamburg and Yvette Fay Francis-McBarnette the first two African American women to graduate from Yale School of Medicine.
In this episode, hosts Kelsie, Carrie Ann, and Emma highlight six women in science who have inspired them. These women are Janaki Ammal, Barbara McClintock, Rachel Carson, Gladys West, Mae C. Jemison, and Marci Bowers. The work of these scientists spans botany, cytogenetics, science communication, computer programming, space travel, and surgical advancements.
In this episode, hosts Mallory and Kelsie discuss the challenges and history of including women in clinical trials. Particularly focusing on the lack of female inclusion in early PreP drug trials and what this means for the future of women in clinical trials.
In this episode, Kelsie interviews Dr. Jordan Sloshower, a psychiatrist and researcher at Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Sloshower co-founded the Yale Psychedelic Science Group and is currently an investigator and therapist in two clinical trials of psilocybin-assisted therapy in the treatment of major depressive disorder and a clinical trial for the use of MDMA in the treatment of PTSD. In this interview, Dr. Sloshower discusses his work, the intricacies of setting up these clinical trials, and the ethnohistory of botanical psychedelics.
In this episode, Kelsie and Felicia interview the authors of an Essential Oils and Health Review, featured in YJBM's June 2020 Medicinal Plants issue. Tyler Ramsey, Tibor Nagy, Kevin Chambers and Carrie Shropshire discuss both the benefits and concerns regarding essential oils and the role they might play in medicine. As medical students at Campbell University, Tyler and colleagues offer unique insight into the roles that clinicians can play in researching essential oils and educating their patients and peers. Link to their review: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32607090/
In this episode, Wes interviews Dr. Anja Loizaga-Velder. Dr. Loizaga-Velder is a German-Mexican clinical psychologist and psychotherapist who has investigated the therapeutic potential of psychedelics in both indigenous and modern mental health contexts for over 25 years. She is also a founding member and director of research and psychotherapy at the Institute for Intercultural Medicine Nierika in Mexico. As yet another exploration into the field (no pun intended) of medicinal plants, this interview involves explorations of when and how ayahuasca may be used within the contexts of psychotherapy and as a treatment for myriad conditions and disorders. Dr. Loizaga-Velder explores some of the training concerns needed to enable the next generation of psychotherapists and psychiatrists to utilize psychedelic medicine in an informed and appropriate manner.
References (formal):Loizaga-Velder, A. (2013). A psychotherapeutic view on therapeutic effects of ritual ayahuasca use in the treatment of addiction. MAPS Bulletin 23(1), 36-40. Available online: http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v23n1/v23n1_p36-40.pdf.
Loizaga-Velder, A., & Loizaga, A. (2014). Therapist and patient perspectives on ayahuasca-assisted treatment for substance dependence. In B. Labate & C. Cavnar (Eds.), The therapeutic use of ayahuasca. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer (p 133-152).
Loizaga-Velder, A & Verres, R. (2014). Therapeutic effects of ritual ayahuasca use in the treatment of substance dependence -qualitative results. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. 46(1), 63-72. doi: DOI:10.1080/02791072.2013.873157
Lafrance, A., Loizaga-Velder, A., Fletcher, J., Renelli, M., Files, N., & Tupper, K. W. (2017). Nourishing the Spirit: Exploratory research on Ayahuasca experiences along the continuum of recovery from eating disorders. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 49(5), 427-435.
Renelli, M., Fletcher, J., Loizaga-Velder, A., Files, N., Tupper, K & Lafrance, A. (2018). Ayahuasca and the Healing of Eating Disorders. In Embodiment and Eating disorders: A Handbook of Theory, Research, Prevention and Treatment. (Edited by H. McBride and J. Kwee), Routledge Press.
Renelli, M.; Fletcher, J., Tupper, K., Files, N.; Loizaga-Velder, A., Lafrance, A. , 2020: An exploratory study of experiences with conventional eating disorder treatment and ceremonial ayahuasca for the healing of eating disorders. Journal of Weight and eating disorders 25, 437–444
Although we typically cover topics that address the biomedical sciences, epidemiology, and healthcare practice, it is no secret that the systemic biases, residential segregation, violent responses to protesting, and further injustices that we see today alldrive healthcare inequality and inform the topics and methods of research/practice for our audience. In light of the recent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Elijah McClain, among others, we’ve decided to use our platform as an avenue of communication for esteemed researchers in the fields of policing, Law, and criminal justice. In this episode, Wes interviews Dr. Monica Bell regarding race and class segregation, police reform and abolition, and minimizing harm to marginalized communities within clinical and behavioral research. Dr. Bell also shares resources, frameworks, and major questions that motivate her work and give context to recent legislation and proposals.
References and Resources (informal):
The Wandering Officer https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/the-wandering-officer @BenGrunwald and @JohnMRappaport
Anti-Segregation Policing https://www.nyulawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/NYULawReview-Volume-95-Issue-3-Bell.pdf Twitter: @monicacbell
Police Reform and the Dismantling of Legal Estrangement https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/area/center/liman/document/b.2054.bell.2150_rbbnaxd9.pdf Twitter: @monicacbell
Reform and Abolition:Toward A Radical Imagination of Law https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3061917 Twitter: @orangebegum
Abolition Constitutionalism https://harvardlawreview.org/2019/11/abolition-constitutionalism/ Twitter: @DorothyERoberts
Critical Resistance http://criticalresistance.orgContributions by Rachel Herzing
Power Over Policing http://bostonreview.net/law-justice/jocelyn-simonson-power-over-policing Twitter: @j_simonson
Bail Nullification https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2879629 Twitter: @j_simonson
Copwatching https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2571470 Twitter: @j_simonson
Toward Democratic Police Reform: A Vision for Community Engagement Provisions in DOJ Consent Decrees https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/wflr51÷=36&id=&page=
Remaining productive while staying at home can be difficult for graduate students who live and breathe experimental science. In this episode, Mai Ly overcomes that challenge by exercising her scientific skills through the art of cooking. Similar to the scientific method, Mai Ly envisions a dish with certain characteristics, does some prior reading on ingredient substitution, designs a protocol, and systematically modifies variables to make her vision a reality. And just like any good experimentalist, Mai Ly makes sure that her products are reproducible!
In this episode of our special series, Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine Podcast host Felicia interviews Dr. Raja Staggers-Hakim about pathways to adverse health in African-Americans due to racism and police brutality as a public health concern. Dr. Raja Staggers-Hakim is a Social & Behavioral Sciences lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health and a medical sociologist who studies racial and ethnic health inequities by examining the effects of social stratification, environmental justice, and police brutality.
In this episode, Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine Podcast hosts Emma and Elizabeth interview Dr. Lidya Tarhan, a professor in Yale's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, on her fascinating work investigating the disappearance of organisms of the Ediacaran Period from the fossil record.
Choosing a thesis laboratory is one of the most important decisions graduate students make during their research careers. In this episode, Edgar Perez, a first year PhD student at UCLA’s Molecular Biology Institute, discusses his experience in choosing a research lab despite not being able to perform research physically in the laboratory space and how both remote communication and asking the right questions – to senior students, his rotation mentors, and potential colleagues – were essential in this process.
Through the COVID Conversations series, YJBM is preserving the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on graduate, medical, and professional students the world over. This series aims to share these stories in a way that underscores the unique humanity and shared experiences of graduate, medical, and professional students. Our ultimate hope is that in doing so, this series will culture a deeper sense of community.
Graduate school has a way of throwing curve balls at students, however, few students expect to completely change their research project entirely — especially during a pandemic. Mary Petrone, a PhD student in the Lab of Dr. Nathan Grubaugh at the Yale School of Public Health, did exactly that. In this conversation with Brian Thompson, a fellow PhD student at the Yale School of Public Health, she discusses the COVID-19 Pandemic and the implications that it has for her PhD research and career trajectory.
YJBM and Yale Science Diplomats (YSD) present a podcast version of our recent Science @ Brewery live event inspired by the December 2019 issue of the YJBM on the topic of Death. Hear from our speakers, Emma Carley, Elizabeth Nand, Michael Bond, and Amanda Leiss speak about cell death, poisons, scientists who died as a result of their scientific investigations, and forensic anthropology. For more information on YJBM and our podcast, please visit medicine.yale.edu/yjbm. For more information on YSD, please visit their website, sciencediplomats.sites.yale.edu/ , or check them out on Facebook. Special thanks to Amanda Leiss and Hannah Weinberg-Wolf of YSD for coordinating the live version of this event.
For this episode of the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine Podcast, Carrie Ann & Kelsie discuss immortality, or rather, the best examples of pseudo-immortality found in the animal kingdom. For more information about YJBM or to read our latest issue on Death (Dec 2019), visit medicine.yale.edu/yjbm.
In this episode, Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine Podcast hosts Huaqi and Felicia interview Dr. Lisa Sanders on her career as a woman in STEM and her non-traditional journey from journalism to medicine. Dr. Lisa Sanders is an Associate Professor in General Internal Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and writer of the popular Diagnosis column for the New York Times.
For this special episode of the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine Podcast, Kartiga & Wei host Dr. Camille Brown and Dr. Aniyizhai Annamalai. Dr. Camille Brown is the director of the Yale Pediatric Refugee Clinic & Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Aniyizhai Annamalai is the director of the Yale Adult Refugee Clinic, as well as Associate Professor of Psychiatry. We discuss the mental and physical health of resettled refugee populations, in addition to ways of addressing refugee health disparities and delivering culturally appropriate care. For more information about YJBM or to read our latest issues, visit medicine.yale.edu/yjbm.
The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine Podcast hosts Kelsie, Emma, and Wes interview Dr. Megan King and Dr. Patrick Lusk from Yale's Cell Biology and Molecular, Cellular, and Development Biology departments. Listen as we discuss their research on the nucleus and their favorite organelles! Twitter handles: Dr. Lusk: @plusk4u and Dr. King: @LuskingL Wes Lewis: @ai_weslewis
As you may have heard, mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell! This is a phrase commonly mentioned in introductory biology textbooks and reiterated throughout our lives in an effort to prove that we do, in fact, remember something from high school biology. The first published manuscript to announce this was written by Dr. Philip Siekevitz and published in the Scientific American in 1957. It’s a short review with multiple images taken an electron microscope to confirm Dr. Siekevitz statement that the mitochondria’s form mirrors its function. However, research on mitochondria began almost exactly a century before this powerhouse statement was made...
YJBM and the Yale Science Diplomats (YSD) present a podcast version of our recent Science @ Brewery live event. For more information on YJBM and our podcast, please visit medicine.yale.edu/yjbm. For more information on YSD, please visit their website, https://sciencediplomats.sites.yale.edu/, or check them out on Facebook. Sources: Emma -Investigation of fungi circadian rhythms in space: Sulzman FM, et al. Neurospora circadian rhythms in space: a reexamination of the endogenous-exogenous question. Science. 1984 Jul 13;225:232-4 -A 2008 interview with Michel Siffre: http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/30/foer.php Ellen - Hadza chronotype study: Samson DR, et al. Chronotype variation drives night-time sentinel-like behaviour in hunter-gatherers. Proc Biol Sci. 2017;284(1858):20170967. doi:10.1098/rspb.2017.0967 - Chronotype GWAS: Jones, S. E., et al. (2019). "Genome-wide association analyses of chronotype in 697,828 individuals provides insights into circadian rhythms." Nat Commun 10(1): 343. Carrie - General thoughts on why we sleep and the 4 hypotheses from: Siegel, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2009; Russel Foster, TED Global. 2013; Matthew Walker. Why We Sleep. 2017. - Definition of sleep from: Rasch and Born, Physiol Rev. 2013 - Jellyfish study: Nath et al., 2017, Current Biology 27, 2984–2990 - Human asymmetrical sleep study: Tamaki et. al, Current Biology, 2016. Elizabeth - NPR "The Haunting Effects of Going Days Without Sleep” - Coren S. "Sleep Deprivation, Psychosis, and Mental Efficiency." (1998) Psychiatric Times, 15:3 - Everson CA, Bergmann BM, & Rechtschaffen A. “Sleep Deprivation in the Rat: II. Methodology.” (1989) Sleep. 12(1):5-12. - Everson CA, Bergmann BM, & Rechtschaffen A. “Sleep Deprivation in the Rat: III. Total Sleep Deprivation.” (1989) Sleep. 12(1):13-21 - helathysleep.med.harvard.edu - Fitzgerald, CT et al. “Teen sleep and suicidality: results from the youth risk behavior surveys of 2007 and 2009.” Journal of clinical sleep medicine: JCSM: official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine vol. 7,4 (2011): 351-6. doi:10.5664/JCSM.1188 - Beccuti, G, & Pannain, S. (2011). Sleep and obesity. Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care, 14(4), 402–412. doi:10.1097/MCO.0b013e3283479109 - Bryant et al. (2004). “Sick and tired: Does sleep have a vital role in the immune system?” Nat Rev Immunol. 4(6):457-67. doi:10.1038/nri1369 - http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/matters/consequences/sleep-and-disease-risk - Perils et al. (2016) “Suicide and sleep: Is it a bad thing to be awake when reason sleeps?” Sleep Med Rev. 29:101-7. doi:10.1016/j.smrv.2015.10.003 - Llorens, et al. (2017) “Fatal Familial Insomnia: Clinical Aspects and Molecular Alterations.” Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 17(4):30. doi:10.1007/s11910-017-0743-0 - The Better Sleep Council
YJBM editors Kartiga and Huaqi interview Dr. Robert Hahn, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about self-motivated education. For more information about YJBM or to read our latest issues, visit medicine.yale.edu/yjbm
In the second episode for YJBM's Clocks and Cycles Issue, Huaqi and Wei interview Xiaoyong Yang, an expert on the interactions between the circadian clock and metabolism. For more information about YJBM or to read the Clocks and Cycles issue, visit medicine.yale.edu/yjbm
To celebrate the Yale Journal of Biology & Medicine’s 90th anniversary, the outgoing editor-in-chief and managing editor discuss the value of YJBM and reflect on its history with YJBM’s faculty advisor, Professor Jeffrey Bender, and Yale School of Medicine’s Deputy Dean for Education, Dean Richard Belitsky. To find out more about YJBM, please visit our website at yjbm.yale.edu. To support other student-run, scientific journals, please also check out the Georgetown Medical Review at gmr.georgetown.edu.
Do you feel like you get sick more often when you aren't getting enough sleep or when you travel overseas? There might be a reason for that! For the first episode based on YJBM's Clocks and Cycles issue, join the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine hosts, Amelia and Lisa, as they interview Dr. Silver about his work on how the circadian clock impacts your immune system. For more information about YJBM or to read the Clocks and Cycles issue, visit medicine.yale.edu/yjbm
The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine Podcast hosts interview Dr. Thomas Brown, a former Yale professor and current member of the clinical faculty of the Keck Medical School at the University of Southern California. Listen as we discuss Dr. Brown's research and his work running an ADHD clinic.
Pay attention! Join Amelia Hallworth and Kelsie Cassell as they discuss attention science throughout life. We start with the neuroscience behind attention as a baby, discuss how children and adult's attention is altered by technology, and finally look at the loss of attention in Alzheimer's patients at the end of life. This episode is released in conjunction with and will feature research from the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine's March 2019 issue on Attention Science.
In the third installment of Yale Journal of Biology & Medicine's series on ecology and evolution, YJBM podcast hosts Neal Ravindra and Kartiga Selvaganesan interview Richard Prum. Professor Prum is the William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, a faculty member in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and affiliated with Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History. He is also the author of the recent book, The Evolution of Beauty, which was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer prize. We discuss some of the concepts in that book and topics in his current research program during the episode.
Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine podcast hosts, Amelia Hallworth and Kelsie Cassell provide a broad overview of the topics of ecology and evolution and highlight some of the research published in YJBM's December 2018 issue focusing on Ecology and Evolution.
As part of the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine's quarterly issue, focusing on Ecology & Evolution, YJBM podcasters John Ventura & Huaqi Li interview Stephen Stearns, the Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale about his work.
Listen as we are joined by Dr. Kristaps Keggi and Dr. Yetsa Tuakli-Wosornu in a conversation with our Editor-in-Chief about the importance of mentorship in medicine, the role looking back at the history of medicine has at its advancements, Yale's surgical firsts and Yale's role in technological innovations in orthopedics!
The Yale Journal of Biology & Medicine Podcast hosts, John and Amelia, will interview Dr. Anjelica Gonzalez, an associate professor of biomedical engineering about medical technology for the second episode in our series on medical technology.
Hosts John Ventura and Amelia Hallworth interview Joanna Radin, an associate professor of history of medicine and history, about medical technology.
YJBM editors and podcast hosts chat with David Hafler, the Chair of the Department of Neurology and Professor of Neurology and Immunobiology at Yale, about the connection between food and metabolism, the nervous system, and the immune system for our second episode about food and nutritional science.
They say you are what you eat... but are you, really? Tune in to hear about how food affects our physiology, the most eccentric fad diets, and more!
We will be following up our first episode by interviewing a neuroscientist studying the visual cortex, Dr. Jess Cardin from the Department of Neuroscience at Yale. We will discuss our current understanding of visual processing, the role of visual cortex, her research interests, and more.
Want to learn more about your senses? In the first episode of two on Sensory Biology and Pain, the focus topic for the March 2018 issue of the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, we will discuss how our sensory systems function, how they can become dysfunctional, and how we study them.
Dr. Pasquale Patrizio joins the YJBM podcast to talk about gene editing and the bioethics that surrounds this exciting topic. In particular, we explore the different roles gene editing plays in the clinic and in bench science.
The podcast team at the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine will interview two deputy editors for the December 2017 Special Issue on Gene Editing. We will discuss a couple manuscripts that are in the issue and introduce the topics of gene editing from a technical and ethical perspective.
Join us in our conversation with Dr. Caroline Zeiss, a veterinary pathologist and laboratory animal veterinarian and the director of the Yale Mouse Research Pathology Core. We discuss the power of animal models in academia and industry and how to improve translatability of animal research.
Join us as we discuss our September 2018 issue on Comparative Medicine! What is it? Why is it important? What kind of medicine is it comparing? All these questions and more will be answered.
Join us for our second episode on infectious diseases! Our podcast team speaks with Dr. Heidi Zapata, an Assistant Professor in the department of Internal Medicine: Infectious Disease about infections, public health, and much more!
Want to learn more about infectious diseases? In the first episode of two on infectious diseases, the focus topic for the June 2017 issue of the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, we will be discussing the history of epidemics, how infections affect our bodies, and how to prevent the spread of the infectious diseases.
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Katerina Politi, a Pathology professor here at Yale, about the critical role of basic scientific research in the drug development process. Specifically, we delve into the way in which scientific advances in the molecular underpinnings of lung cancer have shaped emergents therapies, and vice versa.
In this episode, we are joined by the deputy editors of our March 2017 issue on Drug Development to go through the drug development process, from basic biological discoveries to introductions of drugs into the clinic.
What's next for microbiome research? In the third and final episode on the microbiome, we are joined by Dr. Camille Konopnicki, a post-doctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Andrew Goodman, who was our colloquium speaker for this issue to talk about current on going research on the microbiome here at Yale and how microbiome research is evolving and changing.
What has the microbiome taught us? In the second episode on the microbiome, we are joined by Yale rheumatologist and assistant professor of Immunobiology and Medicine, Dr. Martin Kriegel to discuss articles published in our issue, current research on the microbiome, how the microbiome is being applied in the clinic, and where the future of microbiome research lie
Want to learn more about the microbiome? In the first episode of three on the microbiome, the focus topic for the September 2016 issue of the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, we will be discussing the history of the field, current techniques used in microbiome research, and how the microbiome influences our health.