Our guest this week is Egle Cekanaviciute, a 5th year graduate student in Marion Buckwalter's lab, who teaches us how to make a Sazerac, and talks to us about teaching, neuroinflammation, and brain parasites and zombie mice!
This is the FULL version of the episode, which includes the following sections:
Introducing Egle Cekanaviciute: 0:00-0:38
Making a Sazerac: 0:38-2:45
Early life in Lithuania: 2:45-7:10
Life as an immigrant in the U.S.: 7:10-8:07
Making it work at Harvard: 8:07-10:56
Egle the polymath: 10:56-13:48
Studying shamans in the Amazon: 13:48-17:12
Culturally defined neuroscience?: 17:12-19:09
Shamans in the western cultures: 19:09-21:00
Teaching: 21:00-27:10
Not My Field: 27:10-30:44
Immune response in the brain: 30:44-36:21
Brain parasites and zombie mice: 36:21-41:57
"R" is for "radio": 41:57-43:07
Goodbye and end credits: 43:07-43:50