Isabel Low is a PhD student at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University in the lab of Dr. Lisa Giocomo. You can learn more about Isabel's research here (https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(21)00504-3) and the Giocomo lab here (https://giocomolab.weebly.com).

Few neuroscientists conduct research that requires them to go to sunny beaches. In an episode that was originally recorded in June 2021, Carla and Ethan talk with Dr. Alice Chou about her research at the unique and historical intersection of neuroscience and marine biology. Now a postdoc in Dr. Eve Marder's group at Brandeis University, at the time we interviewed Alice she was wrapping up her thesis in the Cronin lab at UMBC. If you like this episode, be sure to follow Alice on Twitter via her handle @overbrainbows

Greetings listeners! In this episode we get to talk with the first-rate dopamine scholar Arif Hamid about his recent paper published in Cell. Please check out the full article here: https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0092-8674%2821%2900377-9. Arif is opening his own lab at the Twin-Cities Medical Campus in Minneapolis, MN. To learn more about available positions you can visit his website: https://arifahamid.com/index.html.

In mice. Get ready to rumble with special guest Takashi Yamaguchi, a postdoc in the lab of Dayu Lin in the Neuroscience Institute at NYU Langone Health. In this episode, Takashi breaks down the exciting findings from his recent Nature Neuroscience publication, which can be accessed at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-020-0675-x

That is the question. And this is the episode kicking off season 2 of Top of the NOGN (!) where Carla Golden and Ethan McCurdy get to catch up with Kara Marshall, then-postdoc at Scripps and now-PI in the Department of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine. Kara's lab is hiring so visit https://www.themarshalllab.com for more information. The full article from today's episode can be found here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2830-7

In the final episode of our graduate school application series, Naoko Tanese, PhD, Associate Dean for Biomedical Sciences and Director of the Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at NYU Langone Health, Gariel Grant (lab of Richard Tsien), and Heejae Jang (lab of Christine Constantinople), all weigh in on how to select the right graduate program.

Looking for a resource on how to nail your interviews with your favorite graduate programs? Carla Golden and Ethan McCurdy talk with Professor David Schoppik, NYULH NI Executive Director Heather McKellar, as well as current PhD students Maya Hopkins and Andrew Mah about what makes for a successful interview. Carla and Ethan both weigh in with some stories and experience too. Whether you're interviewing now or in the future, we've put together this episode as a collection of some helpful tips that are sure to put you in the right direction. We discuss NIH RePORTER in the episode. You can visit that resource here: https://projectreporter.nih.gov/reporter.cfm

This week we’re back in action with Jennifer Schiavo, PhD, a current postdoc in the lab of Vikram Gadagkar, PhD, at Columbia University. In this episode, we discuss Jennifer’s 2020 Nature paper, “Innate and plastic mechanisms for maternal behaviour in auditory cortex,” which she published as part of her doctoral research in the laboratory of Robert Froemke, PhD, at NYU Langone Health. Note: the sampling of adult rat ultrasonic vocalizations comes from a separate eLife paper, “Vocalization–whisking coordination and multisensory integration of social signals in rat auditory cortex.”

The Neuroscience Outreach Group at NYU recently hosted a town hall on everyone's favorite virtual platform featuring Helen Egger, MD, Alan Schlechter, MD, and Stephanie Rogers, PhD, as part of an ongoing series on COVID-19 and Mental Health. The recording from that event is presented in full here. Our thanks to Aaron Reliford, MD, who joined the first iteration of this event, which unfortunately was not recorded.

This time around we dive back into the data ya'll! Join us for a fun conversation with Dr. Ana Badimon about her 2020 Nature paper, "Negative feedback control of neuronal activity by microglia".  Be sure to read the full article here https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2777-8

Carla and Ethan are back with another helping of unvarnished pro tips for a successful grad school application. Joining the podcast again are Professor David Schoppik, NYU PhD student Maya Hopkins, Basu Lab Research Associate Rodrigo De La Torre, and the Executive Director of the NYU Neuroscience Institute, Heather McKellar, PhD. This episode is part of an ongoing series on graduate school applications, so join us again in a few months (~early January) for an episode chock full of advice for crushing your interviews.

Alyssa Shearer, Ingrid Joylyn Paredes, Tiara Ahmad, PhD, and Lucky Tran, PhD, join Carla and Ethan for a round-table discussion about the role that politics plays in science (and vice versa). We encourage everyone to vote on Election Day, which is November 3, 2020! You can find your state's polling site at this link: https://www.nass.org/can-i-vote/find-your-polling-place For anyone living in New York whose interested in early voting, you can find your site here: https://www.voteearlyny.org/ 

In the first episode of this series, Carla and Ethan talk with applicants, current students, and the great forces who review grad school applications, to make sense of the whole application process. Starting with finding the right program, we hope this series is a helpful resource for anyone who is planning to or thinking about applying to grad programs. A special thanks to Emily Arsenault, Yuki Fujishima, Rodrigo De La Torre, Shannon Schiereck, Maya Hopkins, Rachel Weintraub-Brevda, and Professor David Schoppik for their time and for appearing in this episode.

Tanya Sippy, MD, PhD, Katlyn Nemani, MD, and Alexandra Mellis, PhD, discuss the ongoing effects on mental health caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in a live panel event. This panel was sponsored by NYU Langone's Neuroscience Institute and NOGN, and organized by Sloka Iyengar, PhD, and Ethan McCurdy, PhD.

Dr. William Barr of NYU Langone's Concussion Center moderates a panel on concussion and brain injury with Samantha Larsen, PhD, Daniel Torres, MD, and David Jevotovsky, a medical student who sustained a significant TBI during his training. This event was co-organized by NOGN and hosted by NYU Langone's Neuroscience Institute and Concussion Center.

Blair Jenkins, MD, PhD, joins Carla and Ethan to discuss her 2019 eLife paper. Tune in for an interesting discussion about the sense of touch, skin, and the importance of Black voices in neuroscience. She wishes to thank Dr. Ellen Lumpkin and members of the lab as several of the insights in the podcast, particularly those about the physiologic role of Merkel cells in touch, stem from Dr. Lumpkin’s work published prior to Blair’s paper.  You can read Blair's full eLife paper here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6386521/pdf/elife-42633.pdf

NYU neuroscience doctoral student Asha Caslin joins Ethan McCurdy in a wide-ranging discussion about oxytocin, the controversial legacy of Immanuel Kant, and artificial intelligence. We also talk about skateboards and bridges. Give us a listen, why don't ya?

It's all about the coding logic of olfactory perception ya'll! Drs. Edmund Chong and Monica Moroni join Priyanka and Ethan to discuss their recent article published in Science Mag (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6497/eaba2357). It's a feast for the senses (mostly the ears).

Priyanka Ramesh rejoins Top of the NOGN for a discussion about community in science, how to set goals, and some hot takes on neuroscientists in pop culture. It's real fun. Give us a listen!

Special guest Dr. Aaron Burberry of Harvard University joins Carla and Ethan for a fascinating discussion of how changing the gut microbiome improves outcomes in models of ALS. Be sure to read the full May 2020 Nature paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2288-7?platform=oscar&draft=collection