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Season 2, Episode #1.  Mike Shelley is an applied mathematician who uses modeling and simulation to better understand the physics and biology of complex systems. He is the director of the Center for Computational Biology, which is part of the Flatiron Institute — the scientific research arm of the Simons Foundation located in NYC. He also co-founded and co-directs the Courant Institute’s Appl...

In this episode, I give a quick summary of the interview with Christie del-Castillo Hegyi and Jody Segrave Daly that aired on Science Fare on Monday, June 17, 2024. Christie and Jody are the founders of the Fed is Best Foundation and authors, along with Lynnette Hafken, of the forthcoming book, Fed is Best.   In today’s episode, we talk about: *The Next Generation High School Science Standard...

In this episode of Science Fare, I interview Christie del-Castillo Hegyi and Jody Segrave-Daly, founders of the Fed is Best Foundation and authors, along with Lynnette Hafken, of the forthcoming book, Fed is Best.   Links mentioned in the episode: Fed is Best Foundation Fed is Best Book New York Times Parenting article on How to Deal with Low Breastmilk Supply Sibling study on breast- and for...

Lisa Ammirati, high school science teacher and chair of the science department at Abington Friends School talks to us about her career as a science teacher and strategies to integrate classroom curriculum with events in the broader world. In this conversation, we talk about: *Lisa’s career in teaching [3:25]; *What it’s like being a department chair [4:58]; *What is uniquely special about teaching...

Jill Herschleb, senior director of cell biology at 10x Genomics, talks about her path as a scientist and her work in building the tools that have helped make single-cell genomics the robust and flexible technology it is today.  Here is an informative video on single cell genomics and its use in the effort to make a comprehensive human cell map (aka, the Human Cell Atlas).  In Part 2 of t...

Episode #8. Jill Herschleb, senior director of cell biology at 10x Genomics, talks about her path as a scientist and her work in building the tools that have helped make single-cell genomics the robust and flexible technology it is today.  Here is an informative video on single cell genomics and its use in the effort to make a comprehensive human cell map (aka, the Human Cell Atlas).  In...

At the halfway point of Season One of the Science Fare podcast, let’s have a listen to this special High School Science highlights episode — a collection of clips from previous episodes when the scientists link their work to the high school science learning standards. We have Hashim Al-Hashimi (Episodes 1 and 2) talking about how complexity evolves, Jamie Morton (Episodes 3 and 4) talking about th...

Part 2 of the conversation with Kelly Knudson, professor of Anthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, and director of the Center for Bioarchaeological Research and the Archaeological Chemistry Laboratory, who talks to us about archaeological chemistry, her path as an archaeological chemist, and about a paper she and others published in PNAS entitl...

Episode #5. Kelly Knudson, professor of Anthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, and director of the Center for Bioarchaeological Research and the Archaeological Chemistry Laboratory, talks to us about archaeological chemistry, her path as an archaeological chemist, and about a paper she and others published in PNAS entitled “ Feasting and the ev...

Part 2 of the conversation with Jamie Morton, scientist and founder of Gutsy Analytics, who talks about his June 2023 paper in Nature Neuroscience entitled, “ Multi-level analysis of the gut-brain axis shows autism spectrum disorder-associated molecular and microbial profiles ,” in which Jamie and 42 other authors re-analyzed prior datasets to discover new connections between the human gut microbi...

Jamie Morton, scientist and founder of Gutsy Analytics, talks about his June 2023 paper in Nature Neuroscience entitled, “ Multi-level analysis of the gut-brain axis shows autism spectrum disorder-associated molecular and microbial profiles ,” in which Jamie and 42 other authors re-analyzed prior datasets to discover new connections between the human gut microbiome and autism. For a primer on the...

Here is Part 2 of the conversation with Hashim Al-Hashimi, professor of biochemistry and molecular physics at Columbia University, who talks about his March 2023 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) entitled, “ Turing, von Neumann, and the computational architecture of biological machines, ” in which he writes about an opportunity for better understanding biological...

Hashim Al-Hashimi, professor of biochemistry and molecular physics at Columbia University, talks about his March 2023 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) entitled, “ Turing, von Neumann, and the computational architecture of biological machines, ” in which he writes about an opportunity for better understanding biological problems: seeing biological molecules as com...

Welcome to the Science Fare podcast! On the Science Fare podcast, I aim to 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. Each conversation is split into two parts, and at the end of part two, we'lll draw connections between the scientist's resea...