In the first Brains and Behavior Distinguished Lecture Series Podcast of the 2020-21 year, Greg sits down with Dr. Larry Young of Emory University to discuss his inspiration for getting into social psychiatry and his post-doc years at UT-Austin (3:17), researching social behavior in monogamous prairie voles (11:10), how oxytocin and vasopressin receptor expression overlaps with addiction circuitry to encode social responding (15:41), how social behavioral research helps us study the deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorder (35:27), teaching neuroscience to Tibetan monks (39:58), and the perks of being married to a neuroscientist (42:47).

Greg sits down with Ed Boyden, the Y. Eva Tan professor in Neurotechnology and the Synthetic Biology group Leader at MIT to discuss how things have been both at home and in the lab during COVID (1:56), his background as an engineer and how those skills translate to neuroscience (7:08), transitioning from learning and memory work to optogenetics research (12:55), expansion microscopy (20:07), science in the press and brining basic research to the public (25:35), updated research on fluorescent tags and how this can be used for brain mapping (32:46), and comparing science and quality of life in Boston vs. the bay area (42:09).

Greg chats with Dan Almira (from The beat w/ DA) and Domingo Rodriguez on the joy of football being back (1:45), recent news in the FSU football program (5:40), review the Georgia Tech game (13:48), preview FSU vs. Miami (48:04), and go through some listener questions (1:01:18).

In today's episode Greg sits down with Dr. Patrick Whelan, Professor in Comparative Biology & Experimental Medicine at the University of Calgary to discuss the differences between science in Canada vs. the United States (2:32), how he developed his passion for researching spinal cord injury and good lab practices (8:17), the advantages of a good model organism in spinal cord research (19:32), how dopamine modulates CPGs to alter movement (27:57), the association between pain and locomotion (38:59), how innervation of the spinal cord may be modulated by the gut-brain axis (41:12), his collaborative work with clinicians on movement disorders (48:26), and Calgary as a city (53:06).

As the 2020 college football season is set to begin, Greg and Dan sit down (virtually) to discuss the 2020 FSU football team, go through some season predictions, and preview their matchup with Georgia Tech. *** NOTE, UNEDITED FOR QUICKER UPLOAD, ENJOY!

In part 2 of our COVID an sports podcast, Dan, Domingo and Greg discuss the mechanisms that need to be put in place so sports can come back (57s), how will networks fight over the glut of sports in the fall (4:00), how amateur athletics are affected by COVID (6:58), specifically how COVID affects FSU sports (24:42), and our parting shots (28:15).

On part one of our COVID and sports conversation Dan, Domingo, and Greg summarize the COVID timeline and initial response (2:57), how the social culture and the economy will be altered by COVID (19:00), as well as the political response to COVID, and how opening up a country is similar to opening up a sports league (40:18).

On Part 2 of the NFL offseason 2020 show, Greg starts off by reflecting on round one of the 2020 NFL draft before bringing Chris and Evan in to discuss the 2019-20 NFL playoffs (4:17), the 2020 coaching carousel (11:49), and the frenzy of free agency (31:19).

In Part one of our NFL 2020 offseason show, Greg, Evan, and Chris discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic influences the NFL draft (1:17), how the start of the season and schedule will be affected (9:35), new components of the collective bargaining agreement (23:10), and parting shots on players we are keeping our eye on (34:34).

On today's episode, Greg sits down with old roommate and fellow Seminole enthusiast Dan to discuss what went wrong with the Willie Taggert era (2:24), breaking down the start of the Mike Norvell era (16:08), grading the new FSU assistants (20:27), reviewing the 2020 recruiting class (35:36), then concluding with recapping the FSU basketball season (52:37).