Women in Science (Audio)

Sophie Deng, MD, PhD UCLA Series: "Women in Science" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 36326]

Christine Brown, Deputy Director of the T Cell Therapeutics Research Laboratory at Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope explains how CIRM helps to advance cancer therapies at City of Hope. Series: "Women in Science" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 36307]

The story of what has driven UC San Diego's Stephanie Cherqui to develop a gene therapy for Cystinosis, a devastating inherited condition. Series: "Women in Science" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 36222]

Neuro-Oncologist and Clinical Director of the UC Irvine Alpha Stem Cell Clinic, Dr. Daniela Bota, explains the development and promise of tumor-derived vaccines to treat Glioblastoma, a resistant and devastating brain cancer. Series: "Women in Science" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 36225]

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, California's first-ever Surgeon General , is dedicated to changing the way our society deals with the public health crisis of childhood trauma. An overwhelming scientific consensus demonstrates that cumulative adversity, particularly during critical and sensitive developmental periods, is a root cause to some of the most harmful, persistent and expensive health challenges facing our nation. In this keynote address at the 2020 CIRM Grantee Meeting, Dr. Burke Harris explains the science and solutions. Series: "Women in Science" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 36328]

Tannishtha Reya, PhD UC San Diego Series: "Women in Science" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 36358]

UCLA biomolecular engineer Yvonne Chen explains recent advances her work has made in engineering cellular receptors to better target cancer cells to improve cancer treatments. Series: "Women in Science" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 36313]

Tippi MacKenzie, MD UC San Francisco Series: "Women in Science" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 36348]

Jeanne F. Loring, PhD Aspen Neuroscience Series: "Women in Science" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 36321]

Aileen Anderson, PhD UCI Series: "Women in Science" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 36355]

Diana Farmer, MD, FACS, FRCS UC Davis Series: "Women in Science" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 36344]

Karen L. Christman, PhD UC San Diego Series: "Women in Science" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 36342]

Brigitte Gomperts, MD UCLA Series: "Women in Science" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 36339]

Sandra Leibel, MD, MSc UC San Diego Series: "Women in Science" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 36340]

Leslie Thompson, PhD UCI Series: "Women in Science" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 36322]

When we think about climate change, we often focus on the effects that we can directly observe such as extreme weather events and catastrophic wildfires. Yet most of our planet is covered by ocean where the impacts of climate change have been more difficult to measure. Join Scripps physical oceanography professor Sarah Gille as she describes how oceanographers are using innovative technology to study our warming ocean. See how much and where it is changing, the implications of that warming and where that heat is coming from. Series: "Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Series" [Science] [Show ID: 35705]

People with allergies know that daily weather determines symptoms. Dr. Katherine Gunding explores how climate change is contributing to higher pollen counts and longer pollen seasons. Also, mold allergens that can cause severe asthma and respiratory symptoms are seen with rising sea levels, after hurricanes or with increased humidity. Series: "Mini Medical School for the Public" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 36096]

Throughout the US and around the world, extreme heat is on the rise. It's a trend that many of us have perceived even in our own lifetimes. We talk about how heat waves have gotten hotter, less bearable. Kristina Dahl, PhD Senior Climate Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists, explains that extreme heat already presents serious dangers to our health and livelihoods. She looks at data and talks about the future. Series: "Mini Medical School for the Public" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 35980]

The ocean plays a major role in regulating Earth’s temperature through exchange of chemicals and microbes with the atmosphere. When waves break, ocean-derived biological species including viruses and bacteria are transferred into the atmosphere. These species can ultimately form clouds, altering precipitation and climate. Highlights will be presented of novel experiments being conducted in a unique ocean-atmosphere simulator developed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Aerosol Impacts on Chemistry of the Environment (CAICE). Kimberly Prather, Professor of Climate, Atmospheric Science, and Physical Oceanography at UC San Diego will focus on recent CAICE studies aimed at advancing our understanding of how the oceans influence human and planetary health. New insights will be discussed as well as future studies designed to unravel human versus microbial impacts on the changing Earth’s system. Series: "Exploring Ethics" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 35000]

Biological anthropologist Katerina Semendeferi describes how the human brain's extraordinary powers of social cognition may predispose only humans to conditions like autism and how she aids the search for the neurophysiology underlying these conditions. Series: "Women in Science" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 34330]