Life sciences

Darwin's 200th birthday: how evolution helps us understand life on earth - Professor Tom Pollard, Yale University

Antibiotics: past, present and future - Professor Susan Baserga, Yale University

Supra-Humans: communal harmony between humans and microbes - Professor Paula Kavathas, Yale University

Love, Trust and Oxytocin: How the brain figures it all out- Professor Meenakshi Alreja, Yale University

The visible and invisible world of viruses - Professor Daniel DiMaio, Yale University

Getting under your skin:  how stem cells regulate hair growth - Professor Valerie Horsley, Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, Yale University

Let's Eat, You Thick-Skinned Prickly Bastard: Carnivorous Plants and Desert Denizens Eric Larson, Manager, Marsh Botanic Gardens, Yale University

Demystifying Stem Cells: What they are and why we should care - Professor Lawrence Rizzolo, Yale School of Medicine

Research on Steroids:Human Bio-cultural Diversity in the Amazon and Beyond. Professor Richard Bribiescas, Chair, Department of Anthropology, Yale University

Getting to know your dog through its DNA. Mark Neff, PhD. Founder, Brindle.

Global noncommunicable diseases: an epidemic of silent killers - Dr. Christine Ngaruiya, Emergency Medicine; Global Health Fellow, Yale School of Medicine

Making modern vaccines to prevent the next pandemic: from flu to zika - Dr. Rachael Felberbaum

Stem Cells and Eye Disease: Treatment of Age-Related Macular Degeneration - Professor Rizzolo

Large-scale digitization of natural history collections - Dr. Patrick Sweeney, Yale University

The What, Why, and How of Proteins - Professor Lynne Regan, Yale University

The Bed Bug: A Masterpiece in Adaptation and Survival - Dr. Gale E. Ridge

Fighting the bite: ticks and tick-borne diseases - Dr. Kirby Stafford III

Type 2 Diabetes: A molecular change of form and function by a single protein - Prof. Andrew Miranker, Yale University

She Has Her Mother's laugh - Carl Zimmer

Stem Cells: From Bench to Bedside - Professor Laura Grabel, Wesleyan University

Engineering Simpler, Safer, and Better Medicines - Professor Samir Mitragotri, Harvard University

Natural History in the 21st Century - Professor Erika Edwards, Yale University

COVID-19 and the Environment - Professor Jordan Peccia, Yale University

SalivaDirect: simple & sensitive molecular diagnostic test for SARS-CoV-2 surveillance - Dr. Anne Wyllie, Yale University

Exploring protein space: From words to landscapes to the evolution of drug resistance - Professor C. Brandon Ogbunu, Yale University

Who does SARS-CoV-2 infect, why, and what are the implications? - Professor Suresh Kuchipudi, Penn State University

Wicked Problems: The Curious Case Of Tuberculosis Across Species - Professor Vivek Kapur, Penn State University

A conversation about engineering "super" mRNA vaccines, vaccine equity, and vaccine access - Professor Wendy Gilbert, and Dr. Unni Karunakara

Dark Matter of the Human Genome - Professor Sarah Slavoff, Yale University

The Things We Carry: How Microbes Impact Our Health - Professor Stavroula Hatzios, Yale University