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Podcast Interviews> 2008
Year 2008
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Podcasts for 2008
David Pendlebury; Most-Cited Science
Dec
2008
In this a podcast from ScienceFriday.com (produced by: Charles
Bergquist), David Pendlebury, a citation analyst, with the
Scientific Business of
Thomson-Reuters takes a look at some of the
most-cited scientific research of the year and discusses why
those oft-cited papers were significant. He also explains what
journal articles have risen to the ranks of the 'modern
classics,' becoming some of the most-cited of all time. Original
broadcast: Dec. 12, 2008.
Announcement.
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Laurie Garrett from the Council on Foreign Relations
Dec
2008
Laurie Garrett, the Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council
on Foreign Relations in New York City, and author of an article in
the journal Foreign Affairs, entitled: “The
Challenge of Global Health, ” in January 2007, discusses the
impact of turmoil in the energy & financial markets on the
health of poor people around the globe.
Read a New Hot Paper comment from Laurie Garrett about this
paper.
Listen:
MP3 | WMA
(recorded
in July 2008)
John Apostolakis & Makoto Asai of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Dec
2008
The authors discuss their 2003 Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res.
A paper: "GEANT4-a simulation toolkit." Geant4 is a complex
system of detector description and simulation tools. The toolkit
simulates the passage of elementary particles through matter in
order to aid in the design and optimization of detectors, as well
as the development and testing of reconstruction and analysis
programs, and the interpretation of experimental data. This was a
Current Classics paper selection for
Aug. 2008 (Eng.).
Listen:
MP3 | WMA
Theoharis Theoharides on Neurogenic Inflammation
Nov
2008
Theoharis Theoharides is Professor of Pharmacology and Experimental
Therapeutics at the Tufts University Sackler School of Graduate
Biomedical Sciences in Boston, MA. Here he discusses the mandatory
role played by neurogenic inflammation in the development of a
number of diseases. He has been named a
Current Classics scientist (Pha. & Tox.)
for Jun. 2008.
Listen:
MP3 | WMA
Marcella Calfon from Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Oct
2008
Marcella Calfon is the lead author of a citation classic article on
the protein IRE 1. Here she discusses her career and research in
the field of cardiovascular physiology. She has been named a
Current
Classics scientist (Multi.) for
Apr.
2008.
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MP3 |
WMA
Rafael Irizarry; Professor at Johns Hopkins
Sep
2008
Rafael Irizarry is a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics
in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Here he
discusses his work on the development of quantitative methods and
software for genomics and epigenomics. He has been named a
Current
Classics scientist (Math.) for
Apr. 2008. Also view a commentary from a past
New Hot Paper feature.
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Ron Kessler & Jim Hudson Discuss Binge Eating Disorders
Sep
2008
Ron Kessler, Professor of Healthcare Policy & Jim Hudson
(pictured), Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School,
discuss binge eating disorder and the link to obesity. This podcast
accompanies their New Hot Paper
commentary on the same topic (May 2008).
Listen:
MP3
| WMA
Berkeley's David Teece
Aug
2008
David Teece is Professor in the Haas School of Business at UC,
Berkeley and also Director of the Institute of Management,
Innovation, and Organization. Here he discusses his concept of
“applied industrial organization.” Teece has been named
a
Current
Classics scientist (Eco. & Bus.) for
Apr. 2008.
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MP3
| WMA
Olivier Gascuel; from Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Aug
2008
Olivier Gascuel leads a research group at LIRMM-CNRS, Montpellier,
France. Here he discusses his work in bioinformatics and
comparative genomics. Gascuel has been named a
Current Classics scientist (Env./Eco.) for
Aug. 2008, and has provided commentary in a
Fast Breaking Paper in the same field.
Listen:
MP3 | WMA
Christopher Lipinski; Scientific Advisor to Melior Discovery, Inc., Exton, PA
Aug
2008
Here he discusses his 1997 article from Advanced Drug Delivery
Reviews, "Experimental and Computational Approaches to
Estimate Solubility and Permeability in Drug Discovery and
Development Settings." Also, read a
New
Hot Paper comment from
Jan. 2006. In addition he also appeared as a
Current Classics scientist (Pha. & Tox.)
for
Feb. &
Apr. 2008.
Listen:
MP3 | WMA
Zbyszek Otwinowski; Professor of Biochemistry
Jul
2008
From the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas,
Texas, Zbyszek Otwinowski discusses mathematical crystallography,
the primary method used to determine three-dimensional structures
of large biological molecules, namely proteins and nucleic acids
and the principal tool for studying single crystals, x-ray
diffraction.
Listen:
MP3 | WMA
Russel Reiter on Melatonin and its Metabolites
JUL
2008
Russel J. Reiter, Professor of Endocrinology at the University of
Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, discusses the
uniqueness of the antioxidant melatonin. View Reiter's
Fast Breaking Paper commentary (with figures) about this
subject from Feb. 2008.
Listen:
MP3 | WMA
Anthony Westerling on Increased Wildfire Activity
JUL
2008
Anthony Westerling is an Assistant Professor in the School of
Engineering at the University of California, Merced. Here he
discusses climate-ecosystem-wildfire interactions and climate
change impact assessments. Westerling has a corresponding
Fast Breaking Paper comment (with figures) from Feb. 2008
regarding this research.
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MP3 | WMA
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