Artful Scientista

She loves both art and engineering. She has an uncanny "GPS" voice. She studied mechanical engineering at University of Tennessee at Martin. She is on the path to becoming licensed as a Professional Engineer (PE). She loves to do it all and tries to "fail fearlessly".Meet my talented guest, Holly Bopp, from Memphis, Tennessee.Years ago, Holly had a significant conversation with a family member that helped steer her to the career course that she is on now. Previou...

- said she......She is Valerie Bentivegna, a science and medical writer who studied bioengineering, bio nanotechnology and life sciences related to physics and cancer. While working as a research scientist, she got to engineer tissue, gut tissue! Always wanting to keep her options broad, Valerie now works in Seattle, Washington for a company that does design services for biotech, pharmaceutical, and global health companies.But that's not all! Valerie loves to collaborate.&nb...

Amy Zwierzchowski-Zarate, a neuroscientist from Dallas, Texas, shows us how being a scientist and being a mom don't have to be mutually exclusive. For this STEMinist, being a statistic can have a positive side to it.And you might be familiar with the term Amyloid Beta, that brain protein that may signal that a person has Alzheimer’s disease. In Amy’s lab at University of Texas Southwestern (UT Southwestern), she has pioneered the idea that another brain protein, Tau, may be responsible ...

As in art, the creative process in science is a big component. Often undervalued in the scientific world, you need to have a lot of imagination working in science! My guest, Valentina Ferro, a biophysicist who lives outside of Seattle, Washington, grew up being artistic. With supportive parents who fostered a feeling in their children that they could grow up to be whatever they wanted, she was fascinated by science but thought she might go more in an artistic direction. One ...

Nadja Cereghetti is an epidemiologist and infection biologist based in Basel, Switzerland.Her disease modeling research of malaria and other tropical diseases, done at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, is used much in the same way as in systems for researching the COVID-19 virus and all of its variants. The important information gathered informs public health decision making. Her career background has been varied and this has helped her to become a great connector an...

For years, my guest Pat Hunt, a geneticist out of Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, has been researching the role of age on women's ability to produce genetically normal eggs.In this episode Pat explains what aneuploidy is (okay, I’ll tell you too! It is a condition where there is an abnormal number of chromosomes in a cell’s nucleus (where DNA is located)), which is related to her career-long research into why it can be harder for older women to conceive.And, she tell...

Hey folks, glad you could make it! This first episode of Artful Scientista gives you a little bit about why I am making this podcast and a little bit about me. Thanks for being here!

Women scientists have amazing stories to tell. Join us on Artful Scientista to hear how these insightful, artful, and powerful change-makers are making our world a better place.