The Science Scholars Podcast

In honor of Mother's Day, we continue our women in STEM series by talking to moms! We interview Melanie Ohi, Stephanie Carnes and our moms (Eileen Martin and Connie Azumaya) about their experience as mothers and women in STEM. Connie also mentions a great article about gender diversity within industry.

In order of interview:

Stephanie Carnes is a PhD student at Vanderbilt University in Chris Aiken's lab. She is currently pregnant with her first child.

Melanie Ohi, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at University of Michigan in the Life Sciences Institute. She is the mother of two.

Eileen Martin is currently a technical program manager and has extensive experience with software development. She is Katie(and Katie's brother Kyle)'s mom.

Connie Azumaya, M.S, spent most of her career in industry as a bioanalytical chemist and a global lead for bioanalysis at AstraZeneca. She is Caleigh's mom.

Week two of our evolution miniseries! We discuss the papers teased in Episode 37 about adaptation to extreme environments, maladaptive evolution that caused extinction and coevolution. We also touch on some important aspects of speciation that we missed in week 1.