A New Anti-Infective in an Age of Antibacterial Resistance with Dr. Vincent A. Fischetti, Research Microbiologist and the Head of the Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology at the Rockefeller University.

Charley Wininger, licensed psychotherapist aka "the love doctor" returns to BWAS to talk about how to optimize the therapeutic benefits of MDMA.

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Dr. Martin Blaser is the Henry Rutgers Chair of the Human Microbiome, professor of medicine and microbiology at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and author of Missing Microbes. His lab has been studying pathogenic bacteria since 1981 and the human microbiome since 2002. In the episode Dr. Blaser discusses how the overuse of antibiotics may be fueling the ills that especially bother modern society.

Botanist Dr. Douglas C. Daly: Identity Theft in the Amazon

Dr. Douglas C. Daly is a Botanist at the New York Botanical Garden and

the B.A. Krukoff Curator of Amazonian Botany. His research focuses on

the trees and flora of the Southwestern Amazon region, with particular

interest in frankincense and myrrh.

What’s more, he is a member of The Southern Blots, a band of euphonious academics who showcase their talents after his talk, entitled "Identity Theft in the Amazon: Encounters with Fictional Forests."

Is there a science to dating? No, but there is science supporting the idea of trusting your gut. Licensed Psychotherapist Charley Wininger discusses how to use your intuition to most efficiently navigate the perilous New York dating scene.

The Logic of Time Travel with Dr. David Z. Albert

At our very first event Dr. Albert discussed the bi-directionality of time. This time, one year later, we're talking time travel!

Having Our Cake and Eating it Too; The Future Of Food Security in a Changing Climate

Description:Dana Pe’er is a world class computational biologist and the Chair of the Computational and Systems Biology Program at Sloan Kettering Institute. Her lab uses computational approaches to better understand how tumors and other genetic diseases interact as ecosystems. In the emerging era of big data, she is a pioneer in our movement toward the development of the best strategies to effectively consolidate and interpret large datasets in order to improve our healthcare.

Is there extraterrestrial life? Ya, probably. Dr. Charles Liu walks us through a brief history of astronomy and discusses our ever-expanding understanding of the universe.

Beer! Wine! Chocolate! Bread! Coffee?! You have yeast to thank for some of the best things in life and it hasn’t even gotten started. In this episode of Beer with a Scientist, Dr. Boeke will show us how it’s possible to literally write the future into this trusty little eukaryote’s DNA.

Jef Boeke is a National Academy of Sciences geneticist, the founding director of The Institute for Systems Genetics at NYU Langone Medical Center and one of the co-founders of GP-write (http://engineeringbiologycenter.org/).