This week on the on your mind neuroscience podcast:

 

We’re super excited to announce that we will be live-streaming the 2015 Sunposium: Neural Circuits and Sunshine, put on by the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience on Monday March 30 and Tuesday March 31!  There’s an impressive list of speakers, including Nobel Award winner Eric Betzig and in vivo memory manipulator Richard Tsien, who’s talks will be available for your viewing pleasure, live on this page.  We were able to get an interview with Dan Wilson, a graduate student at the Institute who studies synaptic dynamics in individual dendrites, which means you get a bonus weekend episode! 

Of course it wouldn’t be an OYM episode if Liam and Kat didn’t talk about what’s on their minds, so we’ve got a lot of discussion going on about open sourcing the human body, the latest report to come out of the controversy over the Human Brain Project, and the possibility that neurons evolved twice! We hope you enjoy.

 

Get the stream and links to everything we talked about head to www.onyourmind.ca/sunposium2015

This week on the On Your Mind neuroscience podcast we're joined by sleep specialist Dr. Allison Brager (@beastlyvaulter). She joins us for a conversation about how to conceptualize your project as a paper, scientific vigilante justice, and how to write a WHOLE FRIGGN BOOK while doing your PhD and Post-doc (check out her book Meathead on the neuroscience of athletics).

Then we get into two articles about sleep this week, looking at the relationship between energy metabolism and sleep in insomnia and acute sleep deprivation. 

 

For past episodes, full show notes, and links to everything we talked about head to www.onyourmind.ca

This week on the On Your Mind neuroscience podcast we're joined by Maya Sapiurka (@ppyajunebug), a UCSD studnet who studies how the brain represents space, and blogs at neuWrite SD. 

She joins us for conversations about the Junk DNA debate and why people find science hard to believe, and brings in an article on how to evaluate undergraduate research experiences, and this weeks feature artle describing the encoding of 3D space in bats brains.

For links to everything we talked about today, full show notes and more head to www.onyourmind.ca!

This week on the On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast:

We welcome back founding OYMer Adel Farah! We talk about How to make science a better place for women, transcranial electronic stimulation, and The scientist Magazine. This weeks paper examines the role of gutamate and the blood brain barrier in a mouse model of Alzhimers disease. 

For links to everything we talked about today, full show notes and more, head to www.onyourmind.ca

This week on the On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast:

Liam and Kathryn talk about the challenges of workign weekends, the implosibilty of head transplants, banning P-values, and 10 rules for better figures. 

This weeks paper is about the involvment of Gomaffu, an awesomely named long noncoding RNA, in regulatoin of the nearby gene CRYBBY1 in response to fear conditioning. 

For all our previous episodes, full show ntoes, and links to everything we talked about, head to www.onyourmind.ca

This week on the On Your Mind neuroscience podcast we're joined by Dr Michael Nestor of the Hussman Institue for Autism. He's got some great advice for maintaining a work/life balance while still landing a sweet PI gig. We talk about the ups and downs of PIship, and some issues with the funding structure of science. Then Liam and Kathrn discuss Natures move towards double blind peer review and the importance of talking to science journalists with care. 

This weeks paper is about the networks of genes that are mutated in Autism spectrom disordres, and their possible correlation with phenotype severity (http://rdcu.be/ccYl for share access)

For a full description of this weeks episode, links to everything we talked about, and our full archive of episodes head to www.onyourmind.ca/life-of-PI 

This week on the On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast:

Founding OYMer Adel Farrah joins us from Ireland to talk about publishing case studies, or fairry tales as he calls them, and the importance of antibody validation. Liam's publised his first review, and is happy that some physicists teamed up to prove half of them were wrong. Kathryn has computer scientists on her mind, or more accuratly Scientist Computers. 

Finally we're talking about how local protein translation impacts synapse development and vice-versa in this weeks paper from eLife.

For full show notes and links to everything we talked about today, head to www.onyourmind.ca

This week on the On Your mind neuroscience podcast:

  Kathryn may have abandoned Liam, but she left him in the capable hands of birthday boy and returning guest Ian Mahar (@ianmahar). Ian is in one of the most exciting phases of a PhD, the endzone, where life consists of writing papers, theses, and postdoc proposals.    Back in the lab, Liam has realized that he should use his supervisor for guidance and support (sometimes called supervision)  instead of waiting to come up with solutions to every problem on his own.    While frittering away time in the lab, Liam's been catching up on some of our competition,  aka other great science and neuroscience podcasts. Check out Axons and Axioms if you're into the intersection of neuroscience and philosophy, Brain Matters for engaging interviews with experts in their field, Goggles Optional for an irreverent take on the latest science news, and You Are Not So Smart for the latest in the science of self delusion.    Ian has been getting into the pros and cons of open peer review, where the authors of a paper know which peers reviewed it. While both sides make some good points, he comes down in favour of maintaining our current anonymous system, which has less room to start fights, while Liam is a little more bullish on open reviews, as long as that bull is running slowly so we can jump out of the way if it looks too dangerous.    Finally, in our paper this week (open access here) we discuss the role of aromatse neurons, which convert testosterone to estrogen, in aggression and other behaviours you probably thought testosterone did without becoming estrogen first.    For full links, show notes and all our other episodes, head to www.onyourmind.ca

This week on the On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast:

PhD student and Huntington's researcher Kimberly Girly joins us for conversations about consciousness in a coma, planning your mental health treatments with your partner, and how academic fraudster Diederik Stapel became the human garbage he is.

Kim also brought us a paper using a super cool model to study how aggregates of mutant Huntington protein pass from one neuron to another. 

 

For links to everything we've talked about in this and every other episode head to www.onyourmind.ca/Huntin-Frankenslices-Kimberly-Girling

 

This week on the On Your Mind neuroscience podcast:  

Kat's thinking about why some fields ahve more female PhDs than others while Liam wants to digitize his labbook. In this weeks paper somatic mutations are used to trace the liniage of single neurons in the human brain.

For links to everything we talked about, full shownotes and more, head to www.oympodcast.ca/sexy-single-cells