My So-Called Lab

In this episode, Munawwar Abdulla interviews Dr Carol Gubert, an early career researcher at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. We talk about the gut microbiota and how it plays into neurodegenerative as well as psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and Huntington's disease, how that research looks like with mouse models, and potential avenues this could take in the future. We also talk about what it's like relocating to a different country to pursue science, how she overcame various obstacles as a researcher, and advice for other scientists who want to pursue careers in the field. 

Dr Katherine Bryant returns to interview Jennifer Barr.

In 2017, Jen is a PhD candidate in Anthropology and a Master's student in Public Health at Emory University. In this episode we discuss her fieldwork in India where she studies NGOs who work on solving sanitation issues through a variety of different approaches. She also talks about how she got into her field, medical anthropology, her experiences working and travelling as a woman as well as the advice people give, and more! 

2017 - The MSCL Podcast series continues with the tables switched, now with Dr Erin Hecht interviewing Dr Katherine Bryant! 

Katherine works as a Post-Doc at Emory University in the Anthropology Department, where she studies plasticity in the brain in relation to learning, in collaboration with researchers in both anthropology and educational psychology. She also talks about how her personal experiences influence the way she approaches this sort of research, issues and observations within neuroscience research and the way women scientists are treated in the field, her future plans, big unanswered questions in the neuroscience and neuroimaging, manatees, the role of science in society, and scientists getting involved in politics.

July 19, 2017 – Dr. Katherine Bryant, Ph.D. and Dr. Erin Hecht, Ph.D. are co-founders of My So Called Lab. In Episode 1, Katherine interviews Erin, who is a research scientist in Atlanta, Georgia studying how different evolutionary trajectories have produced different behaviors and abilities in different animals.