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Dr. Dina Simkin is an Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine whose research mainly focuses on how on how mutations in ion channel proteins contribute to pediatric epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disorders. Dr. Simkin earned her BS in Biochemistry, and then proceeded to earn PhDs in Neuroscience, Biophysics, and in Cellular and Molecular Pharmacolo...

In this mini episode, Dr. Dina Simkin tells us how she uses CRISPR to do more elegant experiments for her work on ion channels. Tune in next week for the full-length interview. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lydia Pecker, M.D., is a pediatric hematologist and director of research and advocacy at the Sickle Cell Center for Adults at Johns Hopkins University. She previously served as the founding director of the Center's Young Adult Clinic, which was built to support young people transitioning from pediatric to adult care systems. She received her undergraduate degree in Africana studies from Brown...

In this mini episode, Dr. Lydia Pecker explains the complexity in real-life sickle cell inheritance patterns. Tune in next week for the full-length interview. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Shauna Henley is a Family and Consumer Sciences Educator with the University of Maryland Extension working in Northern Maryland. She delivers programs that center on nutrition, food safety, and physical activity. She holds a Ph. D. in Biology with a concentration in Human Nutrition from Drexel University, a M.S. in Nutrition and Food Science from the University of Vermont, and a B.S. in Biolog...

In this mini episode, Dr. Shauna Henley tells us about the importance of pH in canning food. Tune in next week for the full-length interview. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Science Fare podcast! On the Science Fare podcast, I bring you conversations with scientists doing fascinating, cutting-edge work on all kinds of interesting phenomena, ranging from physics to chemistry to biology and even the nature of science itself. In the conversation, I help draw connections between the scientist's research and part of the high school science curriculum. In Sea...

Science teacher extraordinaire Carla Guarraia,who teaches at The Park School of Baltimore and is also the chair of the Upper School Science Department, tells us about her path to pursuing science and then science teaching, the way she integrates research into her teaching, and gives advice to students interested in pursuing science.  Resources mentioned in this episode: Carla’s Park School fa...

In this mini episode, we hear from science teacher extraordinaire Carla Guarraia who teaches at The Park School of Baltimore and is also the chair of the Upper School Science Department. Carla tells us about an innovative plastics class she teaches that challenges students’ views on plastics and gets them involved in research on plastics.  Tune in next week for the full-length interview and t...

Astrobiologist Sean Jordan (Dublin City University) talks about his path to becoming a scientist studying the origins of life, some of big questions scientists grapple with when looking for chemical and biological signs of early life, and his advice for students interested in astrobiology. Find Sean at The Protosigns Lab and on instagram at @originssean and @protosigns  Listeners, please clic...

In this mini episode, astrobiologist Sean Jordan (Dublin City University) talks about his lab’s work on lipids and the origins of cell membranes. While the earliest cell membranes, aka protocell membranes, were quite different from the cell membranes of today, they also share some important biochemical similarities.  Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode: Science Fare Pod...

Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode: Science Fare Podcast Feedback Form Science Fare Podcast website   Our guests today are engineers Ayyana Chakravartula and Catherine (Cat) Sheane.  Ayyana is the Failure Analysis and Strategy Lead for the Devices & Services organization at Google. She leads a team of science-y detectives who work to understand why things...

Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode: Science Fare Podcast Feedback Form Science Fare Podcast website   Our guests today are engineers Ayyana Chakravartula and Catherine (Cat) Sheane.  Ayyana is the Failure Analysis and Strategy Lead for the Devices & Services organization at Google. She leads a team of science-y detectives who work to understand why things...

Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode: Science Fare Podcast Feedback Form Science Fare Podcast website   Online resources mentioned in this episode:  Stacey’s flower petal image on the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Biointeractive site  Stacey’s essay, With Bated Breath  Stacey’s lab website Scientific American article, “DNA Studies Uncover Unexpected Evol...

Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode: Science Fare Podcast Feedback Form Science Fare Podcast website   Our guest today Stacey Smith. Stacey is an associate professor in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Her lab studies the evolution and genetics of flowers with a focus on the tomato family. Recent work in her lab h...

Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode: Science Fare Podcast Feedback Form Science Fare Podcast website   Our guest today is David Schwartz, who is a genomic scientist and emeritus professor of chemistry and genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dave received his Ph. D. from Columbia University in 1985 and he invented an important method for separating large DNA...

Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode: Science Fare Podcast Feedback Form Science Fare Podcast website   In this mini episode, host Susan Keatley gives an overview of what happens in meiosis and genomic scientist David Schwartz talks about how genomics enabled biologists to make discoveries through, in part, visualizing single DNA molecules. Schwartz connects the ability...

Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode: Science Fare Podcast Feedback Form And, check out the Science Fare Podcast website !  Our guest today is Jan Drgona, who joins us today from Johns Hopkins University.  Jan is an associate professor in the department of civil and systems engineering, and is also at the Ralph S O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute.  In this...

Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode: Science Fare Podcast Feedback Form Science Fare Podcast website   Our guest today is Jan Drgona, who joins us today from Johns Hopkins University.  Jan is an associate professor in the department of civil and systems engineering, and is also at the Ralph S O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute.  Jan’s research focuses on en...

Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode: Science Fare Podcast Feedback Form And, check out the Science Fare Podcast website !  In this full-length interview, Baltimore City police officer and education doctorate holder Tris Hann talks about his background in math education and explains how physics is used to investigate motor vehicle crashes. Highlights of the episode: *Sus...

Our guest today is Tris Hann, and we are doing something new on this episode — Tris is not actually a scientist, but, he is a Baltimore City police officer! The reason he is on the show is because police officers use physics to investigate vehicle crashes, and that is what Tris is going to talk to us about today.  Highlights of this mini episode: *Susan introduces the Science Fare p...

Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode: Science Fare Podcast Feedback Form And, check out the Science Fare Podcast website !  Dr. Elizabeth Catania is a neuroscience researcher, assistant professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Director of Independent Studies at Vanderbilt University. In this episode, guest host Lucy Pohl, who is the high school intern for the pod...

Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode: Science Fare Podcast Feedback Form Science Fare Podcast website   Dr. Elizabeth Catania is a neuroscience researcher, assistant professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Director of Independent Studies at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Catania earned her BA in Neuroscience from the University of Delaware, where she originally star...

Welcome to Science Fare, Season 4! Episodes every Monday, Feb - May 2026. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pat Brown talks about his path to becoming a physician and scientist, the importance of a bench-to-bedside- back -to-bench approach in drug development, and targeted cancer therapy. Using his work in leukemia as an example, Pat talks about how changes at the level of DNA sequence change proteins and can lead to the development of cancer, and how scientists can use this knowledge to develop specifi...