Big Lick of Science

Dr. Dante G. Muratore followed a unquie path during his scientific career, he started as an Microelectronics Ph.D. then moved into neuroscience for his Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University and started his lab at Delft University of Technology exploring how to interface the nervous systen with microelectronics. Come journey with us through his career and explore how scientists are pushing forward to understand how our visual and nervous systems work.

Have you ever wondered what actually creates your behavior? How do the cells in your brain shape who you are? Paras sits down with leading computation and experimental neuroscientist Dr. Kenneth Harris from the University of College London (UCL) about these topics and more.

The flagship ComSciCon has come and gone, but do you crave a little more? In April, Virginia Tech students came together to talk about what science communication means to them and why it is essential for scientists to leave the lab and participate in science communication.

The flagship ComSciCon has come and gone, but do you crave a little more? In April, Virginia Tech students came together to talk about what science communication means to them and why it is essential for scientists to leave the lab and participate in science communication.

The flagship ComSciCon has come and gone, but do you crave a little more? In April, Virginia Tech students came together to talk about what science communication means to them and why it is essential for scientists to leave the lab and participate in science communication.

Content warning: mental illness, suicide

In episode 2 of our Public Podcast Series in conjunction with the American Society for Neurochemistry conference we meet with Drs. Jamie Smyth and Rachel Padget (your beloved communications director of BLoS) talk about what infection with SRAS-CoV-2 does to your body, why many people lose their sense of taste and smell, and what being a virologist has been like over the past two years.

Big Lick of Science presents a public interest series in conjunction with the American Society for Neurochemistry.

Episode 1: That I may serve: Dr. Carla Finkielstein, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, and Virginia Tech serving Southwest Virginia during the pandemic

Paras visited with Dr. Carla Finkielstein, cancer biologist at Virginia Tech, who answered "What am I positioned to do to serve others during the pandemic?" by being the driving force and director of the Virginia Tech Molecular Diagnostics lab, the Covid-19 diagnostic lab that serves Southwest Virginia.

Rachana visits with Patty Raun and Carrie Kroehler, directors of the Virginia Tech Center for Communication Science about why proper science communication is important and how scientists can be more effective as sharing their work, from your own family to a more broad audience.