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Carry the One Radio alum and recent UCSF Neuroscience graduate Dr. Anna Lipkin is on the other side of the mic to talk about how overlooking tiny aspects of the neuron lead to surprising gaps in what we know about the cells that make up our body.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... diligent scientists on Earth dedicated their lives to making groundbreaking discoveries, aiming to forge a brighter future for humanity. However, amidst this noble pursuit, a sinister presence emerges. Some scientists succumbed to the temptations of scientific fraud and turned to the dark of data manipulation and fabrication.Join us in the first installment of our two-part series: SciFact vs SciFraud, as we explore why some researchers in the scientific community forsaken the noble oath of pursuing truth and knowledge, and commit the irredeemable sin of scientific fraud. This episode features three distinguished experts: Dr. Elizabeth Bik, an image forensics expert who cracks down on image manipulations/duplications; Dr. Leif Nelson, an expert statistician and a Professor at UC Berkeley; Dr. Leonid Schneider, a scientific journalist who does excellent and rigorous reporting of scientific misconduct.This episode is produced by Isaac Chang, Marilyn Steyert, Camila Benitez, and Cindy Liu. Music is from Blue Dot sessions. Cover art is generated by DALL-E. You can find the pdf transcript of this episode on carrytheoneradio.com

What can you learn from old bones? A lot more than you think! In this episode, we learn how ancient remains can tell new stories about the societies they come from. Bioarcheologists Ben Schaeffer, Trent Trombley and Jordi Rivera Prince explain how they use remains from all over the world to uncover the lives of people overlooked or misunderstood by history.This episode was produced by Maggie Colton Cove, Cindy Liu, Camila Benitez and Deanna Necula. Head over to carrytheoneradio.com for a pdf transcript and more information about our interviewees' research!

Climate change is here-- are we prepared? In this episode, three experts tackle the question of how best to armor ourselves against the changing tides of climate change. Should we genetically modify a species to make it more resistant to rising temperatures? Should we uproot plants threatened by soaring sea levels, or build a frozen zoo of coral sperm for future generations to resurrect? Join us and find out.Thank you to Sarah Shapiro for the graphic design.

It’s springtime in California, which means wondering how early this year’s wildfire season will start. Should we be buying air purifiers and more masks? If you’re not in California, should you even pay attention to these stories? Immunologist Dr. Mary Prunicki says you absolutely should care, no matter where you live, and that air purifiers are, unfortunately, barely a band-aid solution to the smoky air. Learn about the surprising dangers of wildfire smoke to our health and environment, and what - if anything - you can do.  Check the post on CarryTheOneRadio.com for a transcript and links to articles and sources used in this episode. 

BE-STEM and Carry The One Radio teamed up this February to create a series dedicated to honoring Black scientists at UCSF! Follow Maggie Colton and Sydney Williams as they interview Black faculty and graduate students to shed light on their research, their motivations to pursue graduate school, and their personal journeys through higher education. Tune in to hear these insightful stories and open dialogue.Music by Maggie Colton and Valentin Sosnitsky. Follow BE-STEM on Twitter @BESTEM_UCSF or follow them on their website at ucsf.campusgroups.com/bestem. 

For the third episode of our Black Excellence in STEM mini-series, and our final faculty interview, we’re bringing you an interview with Dr. Catera Wilder. Dr. Wilder studies how lung cells communicate with the immune system and explains to us how she uses mathematical models to inform real-world experiments and vice-versa. She also answers the age-old question: does it ever get easier to explain to your family what you do for a living?You can connect with Dr. Wilder on Twitter @Wilder_Lab. This episode was produced by Sydney Williams, Camila Benitez and Maggie Colton in collaboration with BE-STEM. Follow BE-STEM on Twitter @BESTEM_UCSF. Music for this episode by Lansman Duets. You can find the transcript for this episode here.

For the second episode of our Black Excellence in STEM mini-series, we are bringing you an interview with Dr. Sara Suliman. She is an assistant professor at UCSF studying trying to find biomarkers for people infected with tuberculosis that will predict how severe their disease becomes. She shares with us her experience living all over the world and overcoming adversity early in her research career.

We’re kicking off Black History Month a little early this year with the first episode of our Black Excellence in STEM mini-series, a collaboration with BE-STEM at UCSF. Tune in for an interview with Dr. Akinyemi Oni-Orisam about how he’s working to improve cardiovascular care (and you may just get a few music recommendations too!)

A geneticist makes a DNA-shaped lollipop. Then helix (he licks) it. The iconic structure of DNA was first discovered by Rosaland Franklin using X-ray crystallography. Dr. Arun Richard Chandrasekaran, a researcher at the RNA institute in Albany, takes it a step further and folds these DNA molecules into complex structures using a technique called DNA origami. His DNA contraptions come in all shapes and sizes, and they can do a lot more than just make proteins and pass down genes.Tune in to learn more about what these in-gene-ious (ingenious) DNA contraptions can do!This episode is produced by Isaac Chang. Background music is from Blue dot sessions. Episode art is by Ben Mansky. You can follow Arun on Twitter @arunrichardc

Eva Danielson has loved science since she was a kid, and now she is instilling a passion for science in the next generation of young learners. In this Young Scientist Spotlight, we sit down with this graduate student and children’s book author(not to mention former pastry chef!) to talk about her tuberculosis research and her path from business major to nanny to scientist. Learn how vaccines annotate genes in immune cells and how two rambunctious girls and a new puppy inspired one of Eva’s books. You can find Eva on Twitter @EvaKDanielson or on her website thenerdynanny.com. This episode was produced by Maggie Colton. Music used in this episode is by pod.co and Maggie Colton.

Australia’s battle against the invasion of cane toads goes all the way back to 1935 when they were initially introduced to fight cane beetle infestation. In a few decades’ time, cane toads have become a big bully and taken over the top spot in the local ecosystem.In this episode, Dr. Roshmi Sarma, an ecologist from UNSW, shares her research on these invasive cane toads. She talks about how these cane toads are able to use a neat little trick to speed up their course of evolution and how the native reptilian and snake populations also developed their own strategies to fight against cane toads. Tune in to learn more about Roshmi’s “ribbeting” research on cane toads!