On today's show Greg talks with Dr. Jim Hudspeth, an expert in hearing and audition to discuss his inspiration to scientific research (2:18), why has hearing research lagged behind other sensory neuroscience research (5:41), why frogs are a good model to study audition (7:51), the foundation of audition research and what we are doing to fix hearing loss (7:57), his unique style of lecturing (21:31), writing textbooks (23:34), and the pros and cons of working at an elite biomedical research facility (26:08).

Greg and David have a long overdue talk about Star Wars: the Last Jedi. They discuss first impressions after they first watched the film (2:30), thoughts on new characters (5:01), the concept that anyone can use the force (10:40), knit picks about the movie (13:55), certain plot lines (16:21), what was the best scene (20:24), talk about some unanswerable questions (28:10), who won the movie(37:49), and expectations about star wars movies down the pipeline (39:46).

On today's podcast Greg sits down with Dr. Nino Ramirez, professor and director for integrative brain research at Seattle's children hospital about moving and conducting research all over the world through graduate school and post-doc training (1:35), the inspiration (pun intended) to study biological rhythms related to children’s diseases (6:38), research studying biological respiratory rhythms (11:05) how this research translates to SIDS and epilepsy and collaborations with Microsoft (19:15), future directions in the Ramirez lab (23:25) as well as Dr. Ramirez’s hobbies in Seattle (25:28).

Greg sits down with music neuroscientist Ani Patel of Tufts to discuss composers native language has an imprint on there music (1:34)the type of training to become a music neuroscientist (6:41),discuss whether animals move to musical beats similar to humans (10:52), the type of students that Dr. Patel seeks out (19:15), the process of writing an academic book (21:42), being president of a large neurological society(23:51), what he plans to study in the future (26:06), and the culture and professional difference between San Diego and Boston as well as involvement in music outside of science (29:44).

Part 2 of the NFL off-season podcast has Greg and Reilly talking about the NFL draft, specifically what does Cleveland do at 1 (2:07), the quarterback class (7:41), the Giants draft strategy (15:46), the rest of the draft big board and quarterback fits (18:52),Packers and Colts draft strategy and some breaking news!!! (37:47)

Greg sits down with Dr. Amita Seghal, who's chronobiology work contributed to the 2017 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine to discuss research before drosophila (2:13),challenges starting grad school in a new city (5:07) research in early grad school (6:46), transition to post doc work (10:02), research involved with the 2017 Nobel Prize (13:26), discovery of sleep onset proteins (16:15), fly model of sleep (18:57),sleep deprivation and its effect on the microbiome (21:28)studying Sleep in the Body outside of the brain(23:37), future research projects (26:32) and importance of sleep plus hobbies (28:02).

On this episode of the Greg Suess Podcast, Greg and Dr. Dora Angelaki, professor and chair of neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine discuss how her training as an engineer made her a better neuroscientist (1:45),

multisensory approach in scientific research (3:52), how the vestibular system encodes gravity (9:22), future work involving tuning of neurons to gravity (26:54), studying multisensory perception deficits autism with computational neuroscience (29:05), her scientific editing career (33:57), andlife in Houston after the hurricane , being a foreign women in science as well as hobbies outside of science (37:50).

Greg and Reilly have a long overdue 2017 playoffs (1:54) and Superbowl recap (6:54), go over upcoming free agency (24:35), have some 2017 stats trivia (48:31), and predict the 2018 NFL awards (55:04)

In the first recorded podcast of 2018 Greg gets on the phone with Neuroethics professor Dr. Adina Roskies to talk about advantages in having training in both philosophy and neuroscience (1:39), being a philosopher and an experimental neuroscience at the same time (7:04), evolution of neuroethics the last twenty years (8:10), the use of fMRI in the courtroom (10:45), ethics of cognitive enhancers, deep brain stimulation, as well as other novel neuroscience techniques (16:33), benefits of being a neuroscientist and a philosopher in relaying your questions and findings to lay people (23:59), importance in incorporating philosophical principles into biological research. (26:47), as well as being a women in science and future research (30:52)

Introduction to 2018 and a special surprise