Podcasts
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Terrence Sejnowski, PhD, is a professor, head of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, and holder of the Francis Crick Chair at Salk, and he’s played a hand…
Terrence Sejnowski chats chatbots and what we can…
From Mike Jeffs
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At Salk, we encourage our scientists to ask, what if? And when they do, our Innovation and Collaboration Grants program provides the seed funding they need to pursue…
Igniting the spark with Salk Innovation and…
From Mike Jeffs
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Emily Manoogian, PhD, has made a career out of asking when. Manoogian is a chronobiologist—a fancy word for someone who studies circadian rhythms. As we go about…
Emily Manoogian sleeps, eats, and thrives with…
From Mike Jeffs
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Salk scientist Christian Metallo, PhD, weighs in on the pros and cons of GLP-1 drugs and gives us a sneak peek into how metabolism research at Salk could inspire the…
What’s next for GLP-1 weight loss drugs?
From Mike Jeffs
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While you might not appreciate a shipment of live, wriggling lamprey, Joseph Herdy, PhD, will tell you the parasitic fish can actually teach us quite a bit about our own…
Joseph Herdy talks zombie cells, selfish genes,…
From Mike Jeffs
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Tony Hunter, PhD, is a cancer biologist, professor, and holder of the Renato Dulbecco Chair at Salk. 2025 marks Hunter’s 50th year at the Institute—a…
Tony Hunter enters the archives to share 50 years…
From Mike Jeffs
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Aksinya Derevyanko is a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Nicola Allen‘s lab at Salk. For Derevyanko, recounting her journey from Russia to Spain to San Diego…
Aksinya Derevyanko talks creative ties between…
From Mike Jeffs
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What is my place in the universe? This timeless question set Professor John Reynolds on a path into neuroscience. Today, he explores how the brain turns raw sensory…
John Reynolds on how the brain knows the world
From Mike Jeffs
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Joseph Swift is a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Joseph Ecker‘s lab at Salk, but has recently launched his own start-up called CropDiagnostix. Inspired by…
Joseph Swift says we’re more like plants…
From Mike Jeffs
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In this special Beyond Lab Walls video podcast episode—part of the Salk Institute's 2026 Year of Brain Health—Salk President Gerald Joyce, MD, PhD, sits…
Salk's Year of Brain Health: Janelle Ayres…
From Stephanie Harada
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On October 30, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. PT/12:00 p.m. ET, the Salk Institute holds a special live, video edition of our Beyond Lab Walls podcast as we explore why science…
Salk Institute: Live "Beyond Lab Walls"…
From Mike Jeffs
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Jeff Jones is a staff scientist in the lab of Professor Rusty Gage. Jones' journey to science started on a dirt road in Florida and with a slew of questions about…
Jeff Jones shares what we can learn from…
From Mike Jeffs
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Beyond Lab Walls - A Salk Insitute Podcast
Irene Lopéz Gutiérrez stresses the…
From Mike Jeffs
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Things are changing in Alzheimer's research. We've got new tools and new ideas, and we want you to know about them. To kick off Salk’s “Year of…
Beyond Lab Walls GETTING TO THE ROOT OF…
From Mike Jeffs
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Kay Watt was not a scientist when she arrived in the remote jungles of Panama, assigned to help coffee farmers protect their plants from environmental harm. When she…
Beyond-Lab-Walls-Kay-Watt
From Stephanie Harada
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What are the things that cause cancer in people? Can we prevent cancer?" These are the questions Assistant Professor Daniel Hollern is asking in his research at…
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From ehincks
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How can an infection in your lungs have such a lasting effect on your brain? Lara Labarta-Bajo, a postdoctoral researcher in Associate Professor Nicola Allen's…
Beyond-Lab-Walls-Lara-Labarta-Bajo
From ehincks
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Did you know each of your cells contains a six-foot-long strand of DNA? In a miraculous feat of molecular origami, your genome can fold itself into a tightly packed…
Beyond-Lab-Wall-Jesse-Dixon
From ehincks
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Jake Minich is a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Research Professor Todd Michael. Minich had a long and winding journey to Salk, crossing continents and oceans to…
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From ehincks
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In the first year of her new life attending university in Montréal, Research Professor Pamela Maher made a fateful switch from political science to the biological…
Beyond Lab Walls - Pamela Maher
From ehincks
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Laura Mainz is a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Professor Jan Karlseder. Always curious about the human body, her father’s cancer diagnosis inspired a…
Beyond-Lab-Walls-Laura-Mainz
From ehincks
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Salk Fellow Talmo Pereira first learned to code in his hometown in Brazil as a way to improve his video gaming. His lab now uses artificial intelligence (AI) to track…
Beyond Lab Walls | Talmo-Pereira
From ehincks
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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz is a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Professor Joseph Ecker. A plant biologist by training, she studies how plants recover from drought…
Beyond Lab Walls | Natanella Illouz Eliaz
From ehincks
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Eiman Azim is an assistant professor at Salk. On this episode of Where Cures Begin, he speaks about how the brain controls skilled movements such as throwing a dart.…
Associate Professor Eiman Azim - Podcast Season 1
From Alex Endsley