Podcasts about discussants

Part 2 of our expert panel discussion on the new AI guidelines for colonoscopic polyp detection. Again, moderated by Michael Bretthauer and Thomas Rösch. Discussants are Shahnaz Sultan, Ian Gralnek, Per Olav Vandvik, and Farid Foroutan.

Join us for a discussion on the history of mining and the intersections of history of science with several other fields. How are mines sites of knowing the world, and how is that knowledge contested? How has our understanding of what a mine is changed over time, and what does that mean for how mines are studied? What can the methods and sources used in studying mines teach us about trends in the history of science and science studies? Discussants are: Allison Margaret Bigelow University of Virginia Victor Seow Harvard University Jessica Smith Colorado School of Mines Recorded on April 1, 2024 For more information on this and other topics, please see https://www.chstm.org/video/157

This episode explores the adversarial nature of contemporary politics, considering its causes, its bad effects, and also what its benefits may be. Discussants are Wendy Chamberlain, MP for N.E. Fife and the Liberal Democrats' Chief Whip and Spokesperson for Work and Pensions; Stephen Gethins, formerly an MP at Westminster and the Scottish National Party's Front Bench Spokesman for International Affairs and Europe; currently acting Vice-Principal (International Affairs) at the University of St Andrews; and Daniel Greenberg, Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards (since 1 January 2023).

The discovery of a never-released report from 1973 on women in the History of Science Society provides an opportunity to reflect on how much things have changed, what has not changed, and challenges that remain for improving inclusion in the Society. Discussants in this episode are: Tara Nummedal, Brown University Samantha Muka, Stevens Institute of Technology Margaret Rossiter, Cornell University Matthew Lavine, Mississippi State University For more information and more podcasts go to, https://www.chstm.org/video/157 Recorded on June 5, 2023.

As Indonesia, Somalia, Niger, and Mauritania may be next to join the Abraham Accords, what interests unify these countries on Accord agreement? What will be the impact of Saudi Arabia’s alignment with Iran? What are the balance of power dynamics for the Iran-concerned Accord countries of Israel, Bahrain, UAE? What binds signatories to the Accords as regional political pressures mount? Discussants will assess the impact of the normalization of relationships they have evolved in the two and a half years since Accords were negotiated. Cultural shifts are already reported after two years of active Accords with Hebrew frequently spoken on the streets of Dubai. Trade has flourished. Flights and overflights are routine. But the United States’ role has shifted for a variety of reasons. Is America’s leadership critical to salutary Accord developments? Featuring: David P. Goldman, President, Macrostrategy LLC Hon. Brian Hook, Founder, Latitude, LLC Prof. Bernard Haykel, Professor of Near Eastern Studies & Director of the Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, Princeton University Moderator: Prof. Jamil Jaffer, Adjunct Professor, NSI Founder, and Director, National Security Law & Policy Program, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University --- To register, please click the link above.

Dr. Megan Murphy presents a case to Hopkins Pediatric Student Interest Group (first years - William Wen, Kathy Ran, and Stefany Lazieh) on a 7 week old with 3 days of lethargy and decreased crying. Discussants include Dana Goplerud, Dr. Dhruv Srinivasachar, and Dr. Emily Murphy.

In this episode, Kroc Institute faculty member Atalia Omer, Professor of Religion, Conflict, and Peace Studies, convenes a conversation with several religious studies scholars on the impact of Shaul Magid's book, Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical. Magid is Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. The speakers in this episode presented a similar conversation during the 2021 American Academy of Religion meeting, and their remarks will also be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Religious Ethics.    Discussants in this episode include Yaniv Feller, Jeremy Zwelling Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Assistant Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University; Emily Filler, Assistant Professor in the Study of Judaism at Washington and Lee University, and co-editor of the Journal of Jewish Ethics; Susannah Heschel, Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, where she chairs the Jewish Studies Program; and Robert A. Orsi, Professor of Religious Studies, History, and American Studies at Northwestern University, where he holds the Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies.

The subject of this episode is ‘Historical Constitutions'. Discussants are Jill Harries (Professor Emerita of Ancient History, University of St Andrews), Colin Kidd (Professor of Modern History, University of St Andrews) and Harshan Kumarasingham (Senior Lecturer in British Politics,  University of Edinburgh and co-convenor of Arthur Berriedale Keith Forum on Commonwealth Constitutionalism). The episode is chaired by John Hudson (Professor of Legal History, University of St Andrews).

The subject of this episode is ‘Current debates on the UK constitution'. Discussants are Stephen Gethins (Professor from Practice, University of St Andrews, and formerly the Scottish National Party's Front Bench Spokesman for International Affairs and Europe), Nicola McEwen (Professor of Territorial Politics at the Centre on Constitutional Change, University of Edinburgh, and Senior Research Fellow with the ESRC initiative, UK in a Changing Europe), and Catherine Stihler (Chief Executive Officer of Creative Commons and formerly a Labour Member of the European Parliament). The episode is chaired by John Hudson (Professor of Legal History, University of St Andrews).

The subject of this episode is ‘Space, law and constitutions', considering the laws and institutions that shape a wide variety of activities beyond the earth. Discussants are Timiebi Aganaba (science advisory board member of the SETI institute and Assistant Professor of Space and Society in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University, where she is also on the Law School Faculty), Adam Bower (Senior Lecturer in the International Relations at the University of St Andrews), and Michael Byers (Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia). The episode is chaired by John Hudson (Professor of Legal History, University of St Andrews). [Note: This episode was recorded on 15 February 2022, before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.]

We are back with the University of Florida School of Medicine as Aditya Rao presents a case of an 11 year with 2 week history of dry cough, nasal congestion and post-tussive emesis. Discussants include his classmates Pranshu Bhardwaj, Elizabeth Di Valerio, Daniel Valladares, Natalia Perenia, Abdi Ahmed, Jaimie Bryan with help from Hopkins Pediatrics resident Dr. Murphy

In this podcast, you will listen to the book launch of Dr Aviv Gaon's latest book: ‘The Future of Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence', in which Dr Gaon explores the fundamentals of copyright law and AI, suggesting new models for considering the future of authorship and basic concepts in copyright as we further move into a world where we see more AI generated content. Discussants include Prof. Peter Menell from UC Berkeley (USA), Prof. Pina D'Agostino from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (Canada), Prof. Stavroula Karapapa from the University of Essex, School of Law (UK), and Dr. Aviv Gaon from the Harry Radzyner Law School, Reichman University (Israel). The book launch was organized by Dr Eden Sarid from the University of Essex School of Law.

Join Your Favorite Librarian and special quest, Ashley Meadows, for Episode 10: "Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and the Use of Anger."  This episode is a nod to Audre Lorde and an exploration of the Uses of Anger. This week's episode reading list include the following: “Sister Outsider” by Audre Lorde “Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women” by E. Patrick Johnson “Bone Black” by Bell Hooks“Dear Ijeawela, or a Feminist Menifesto in Fifteen Suggestions” by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThroughout this episode, the pair discuss the burden of strength, cultivating well-being and care among Black girls, softness and the queer spectrum, and using anger as motivation. Discussants also explore systemic attempts to police the Black body, gender and race-based emotion stereotypes, and the "reserve of anger." For more information about this week's special guest, Ashley Meadows, browse their social media at IG: @yarrah_737. For more information on this week's episode, check out favoritelibrarian.com. Support the show (https://paypal.me/forrestnogump)

The subject of this episode is ‘Exporting Constitutions', considering how constitutions and constitutional ideas have been transported or transferred from their place of origin to a new one. Discussants are Harshan Kumarasingham (Senior Lecturer in British Politics, University of Edinburgh and co-convenor of Arthur Berriedale Keith Forum on Commonwealth Constitutionalism.), Anthony Lang (Professor of International Political Theory, University of St Andrews and one of the founding editors of the scholarly journal, Global Constitutionalism) and Nicola McEwen (Professor of Territorial Politics; Co-Director of the Centre on Constitutional Change, University of Edinburgh; and Senior Research Fellow with the ESRC initiaitive, UK in a Changing Europe). The episode is chaired by John Hudson (Professor of Legal History, University of St Andrews).

The subject of this episode is ‘Old Authorities and Contemporary Constitutions', considering how and why certain works and specific figures from the past carry authority in contemporary constitutional arrangements and arguments. Discussants are Jim Gallagher (former Civil Servant who headed the Scottish Justice Department and was the UK government's most senior adviser on devolution and other constitutional issues), Janet McLean (Professor of Law at The University of Auckland and Special Advisor to the Parliamentary Privileges Committee of the House of Representatives, New Zealand) and Aidan O'Neill (QC (Scot.), QC (E&W), BL (Ireland). The episode is chaired by John Hudson (Professor of Legal History, University of St Andrews).

Diplomatic Immunity: Frank and candid conversations about diplomacy and foreign affairs Diplomatic Immunity, a podcast from the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, brings you frank and candid conversations with experts on the issues facing diplomats and national security decision-makers around the world.  For more, visit our website, and follow us on Twitter @GUDiplomacy. Send any feedback to diplomacy@georgetown.edu. Season 2, Episode 12: Kelly McFarland talks to Chet Crocker, Schlesinger Professor of Strategic Studies at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and a member of the ISD Board of Advisers. Chet combines the academic and practitioner perspective, having previously served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Alongside Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall, he is the co-editor of a new collection of essays, Diplomacy and the Future of World Order, published in May by our friends at Georgetown University Press.  We were also joined by two of the book’s chapter authors: former Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs Ana Palacio, and Georgetown international affairs professor and ISD Board member Lise Howard. They discuss the scenarios the authors present in their book, as well as the concept of “peace and conflict diplomacy” as a tool for states to manage others' conflicts, cope with great power competition, and deal with threats to the state system overall. Purchase Diplomacy and the Future of World Order on the Georgetown University Press website: http://press.georgetown.edu/book/georgetown/diplomacy-and-future-world-order Discussants also referenced Richard Haass and Charles Kupchan's recent article in Foreign Affairs, "The New Concert of Powers How to Prevent Catastrophe and Promote Stability in a Multipolar World." Episode recorded: Friday, April 23rd, 2021. 

On 28 October 2020, the Rift Valley Forum, in partnership with the Heinrich Boll Foundation, held the third forum in the Elections Series on the 2021 elections in Uganda and the prospects for political change in the country. The forum included a broader discussion on the role of youth and the need for an inter-generational dialogue given Uganda's high youth population; succession plans and what will follow Museveni's tenure; and how women's political participation can be reimagined and elevated. The forum was moderated by Irene Ikomu, a lawyer and political analyst. Discussants included Irene Ovonji-Odida, lawyer and women’s rights activist, Raymond Mujuni, investigative journalist, Johncation Muhindo, founder of Creations Forum Afrika and Dr. Daniel Ruhuweza, lecturer at Makerere University.

The subject of this special episode of 'Talking Constitutions' is the United States Electoral College, recorded to coincide with the meeting of its presidential electors on December 14th 2020.Discussants are Colin Kidd (Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and frequent contributor to the New Statesman, London Review of Books, and many other publications) and John Hudson (Professor of Legal History at the University of St Andrews).

The subject of this topical episode is ‘Devolved Powers and Emergencies’, exploring how emergencies test constitutional arrangements concerning devolved powers and how such constitutional arrangements might be improved.Discussants are: Jim Gallagher, a former Civil Servant, who headed the Scottish justice department. He was the UK government’s most senior adviser on devolution and other constitutional issues, working in the Cabinet office and the number 10 policy unit under Gordon Brown. He was secretary of the UK civil contingencies committee and in charge of emergency planning in Scotland; Stephen Gethins, who worked in the NGO Sector specialising in peace-building, arms control and democracy in the Caucasus and the Balkans regions. He has been an MP at Westminster and the Scottish National Party’s Front Bench Spokesman for International Affairs and Europe; and Catherine Stihler, who was a Labour Member of the European Parliament for 20 years and is now Chief Executive Officer of Creative Commons. Chairing the discussion is Ian Duncan, who was a Conservative Member of the European Parliament and more recently the UK Government’s Climate Minister. Having been ennobled as a working peer in 2017, he is now Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords.

The subject of this special episode, recorded live on the day after the 2020 USA elections, is the urgent question of ‘Constitutional Futures?'. Are we inevitably facing a series of - national, global - constitutional crises? Or can we turn our constitutional futures into something to look forward to? Join our panellists, drawn from the worlds of politics, law, business and academia, in thinking through the future of constitutionalism from the local to the global, via nation-state structures and beyond.Discussants are Malik Dahlan (Principal of Institution Quraysh for Law & Policy and Professor of International Law and Public Policy, QMUL); Jim Gallagher (former Civil Servant, who headed the Scottish justice department and was the UK government’s most senior adviser on devolution and other constitutional issues); Stephen Gethins (former MP at Westminster and currently Professor of Practice in International Relations at the University of St Andrews); and Catherine Stihler (former Labour member of the European Parliament and Chief Executive Officer of Creative Commons). The panel is chaired by John Hudson (Professor of Legal History, University of St Andrews).

The subject of this episode is 'Written Constitutions', examining the advantages and disadvantages of written and unwritten constitutions, in theory and in practice.Discussants are Lorna Drummond QC (Sheriff in Tayside, Central and Fife, sitting at Dundee Sheriff Court, Sheriff of the Sheriff Appeal Court, and Temporary High Court Judge and Justice of the Court of Appeal of St Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha); Jim Gallagher (former Civil Servant, headed the Scottish justice department and was the UK government’s most senior adviser on devolution and other constitutional issues); Don Herzog (Edson R. Sunderland Professor of Law at the University of Michigan) and John Hudson (Professor of Legal History, University of St Andrews).

The subject of this episode is ‘Courts and Constitutions’, considering the roles - past, present and potential - of courts and the judiciary within constitutional arrangements in the UK and beyond.Discussants are Lorna Drummond QC (Sheriff sitting at Dundee Sheriff Court and Justice of the Court of Appeal of St Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha), John Hudson (Professor of Legal History, University of St Andrews) and Catherine Stihler (former Labour member of the European Parliament and Chief Executive Officer of Creative Commons), chaired by Stephen Gethins (former MP at Westminster and currently Professor of Practice in International Relations at the University of St Andrews).

The subject of this episode is Trade, in particular the constitutional issues involved in the ongoing trade-negotiations between Britain and the European Union.Discussants are Jenni Dunmore (political advisor on international trade and ACP-EU relations at the European Parliament), Jim Gallagher (former Civil Servant, who headed the Scottish justice department and was the UK government’s most senior adviser on devolution and other constitutional issues), Stephen Gethins (former MP at Westminster and currently Professor of Practice in International Relations, University of St Andrews) and John Hudson (Professor of Legal History, University of St Andrews).

The subject of this first episode is constitutional thinking: what we mean by ‘Constitution’ and ‘Constitutional’ and how the nature of the United Kingdom constitution differs from other countries.Discussants are Stephen Gethins (formerly a Westminster MP, now Professor of Practice in International Relations, University of St Andrews), John Hudson (Professor of Legal History, University of St Andrews), Caroline Humfress (Director, Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research, University of St Andrews) and Colin Kidd (Professor of Modern History, University of St Andrews).

The subject of this episode is ‘Second Chambers and the House of Lords’. It explores the role - ideal and actual - of second chambers, in particular the House of Lords, across different constitutional arrangements.Discussants are Lord Duncan of Springfield (Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords), Stephen Gethins (former MP at Westminster and currently Professor of Practice in International Relations, University of St Andrews), Colin Kidd (Professor of Modern History) and Catherine Stihler (Chief Executive Officer of Creative Commons).

The subject of this topical episode is constitutions and emergencies, exploring how constitutions affect responses to emergencies and how emergencies lead to constitutional change.Discussants are Jim Gallagher (former Civil Servant, who headed the Scottish justice department and was the UK government’s most senior adviser on devolution and other constitutional issues), John Hudson (Professor of Legal History, University of St Andrews) and Catherine Stihler (Chief Executive Officer of Creative Commons).

Dr Happymon Jacob in conversation with Amb. Nirupama Menon Rao (Former Foreign Secretary, Former Ambassador to China), Col. Ajai Shukla (Senior Defense Journalist) and Lt. Gen. Vinod Bhatia (Former DGMO, Indian Army) to understand the recent spate of incursions carried out by the PLA along the Line of Actual Control. The discussion focuses on the reasons why the latest incursions are different from what is usually seen and seek to understand why the Chinese leadership would choose to behave aggressively during a global pandemic. Discussants also shed light on the options India has in the short and long term in order to diffuse the current situation and to create mechanisms that may prevent a repeat of such incidents in the future.

Dr. Happymon Jacob in conversation with Amb. Nirupama Menon Rao (Former Foreign Secretary, Former Ambassador to China), Col. Ajai Shukla (Senior Defense Journalist) and Lt. Gen. Vinod Bhatia (Former DGMO, Indian Army) to understand the recent spate of incursions carried out by the PLA along the Line of Actual Control. The discussion focuses on the reasons why the latest incursions are different from what is usually seen, and seeks to understand why the Chinese leadership would choose to behave aggressively during a global pandemic. Discussants also shed light on the options India has in the short and long term in order to diffuse the current situation and to create mechanisms that may prevent a repeat of such incidents in the future. 

Jacques Wadiche (UAB School of Medicine) talks to us about multivesicular neurotransmitter release (MVR) in the CNS. He takes us through recent work from his lab that gets at PKA-dependent molecular regulation of MVR whereby synaptic release depends on the number of docked vesicles available for release upstream of release probability. Duration: 51 minutesDiscussants:(in alphabetical order)Matt Higgs (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Savio Chan (Northwestern) gives us his thoughts on cell diversity in the external globus pallidus. He weighs in on how to define cell type, when to stop mining for more diversity, and whether cell type may even be a relevant construct in thinking about a network’s function. In an interesting aside, Charlie bears out how Savio’s work delivers the key functional impact of a GPe-striatal connection that was originally left out of the basal ganglia wiring diagram because it appeared not to fit the direct/indirect pathway dichotomy. The group considers the age-old dilemma of editorializing observations to fit a functional story, landing on the principle, “follow the data!”Duration: 35 minutesDiscussants:(in alphabetical order)Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Savio Chan (Northwestern) gives us his thoughts on cell diversity in the external globus pallidus. He weighs in on how to define cell type, when to stop mining for more diversity, and whether cell type may even be a relevant construct in thinking about a network's function. In an interesting aside, Charlie bears out how Savio's work delivers the key functional impact of a GPe-striatal connection that was originally left out of the basal ganglia wiring diagram because it appeared not to fit the direct/indirect pathway dichotomy. The group considers the age-old dilemma of editorializing observations to fit a functional story, landing on the principle, “follow the data!”Duration: 35 minutesDiscussants:(in alphabetical order)Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Steve Small (UT Dallas) discusses how well 19th and 20th century localizationist metaphors for the brain have served our understanding of behavior, especially in the realm of language, and what new strategies are replacing them in the new millennium. Duration: 46 minutesDiscussants:(in alphabetical order)Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)Nicole Wicha (Prof, UTSA)Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Matt van der Meer (Dartmouth) talks about the role of oscillations in routing information flow in the ventral striatum. Duration: 37 minutesDiscussants:(in alphabetical order)Francesco Savelli (Assistant Prof, UTSA)Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Stephen Maren (Texas A&M) talks about the common neural circuitry mediating fear conditioning and drug relapse. Duration: 39 minutesDiscussants:(in alphabetical order)Isabel Muzzio (Assoc Prof, UTSA)Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)Matt Wanat (Asst Prof, UTSA)Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Ajay Dhaka (UW) talks about distinctions in itch (pruritis) and pain (nociception) somatosensation, and his discovery of overlapping mechanisms for these sensations via direct activation of different populations of TRP channel-expressing somatosensory neurons in zebrafish. He also talks to us about developing zebrafish larvae as a behavioral screening tool for analgesic drug discovery. Duration: 35 minutesDiscussants:(in alphabetical order)Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)Lindsey Macpherson (Asst Prof, UTSA)acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Sophie Caron (U of Utah) discusses how sensory representations shift from ordered to random in the sensory system of drosophila.Duration: 35minutesDiscussants:(in alphabetical order)Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)Lindsey Macpherson (Asst Prof, UTSA)Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Michelle Diaz (Penn State) discusses how language features might be organized in the neural architecture and her structural and behavioral studies of how language production changes over the lifespan. Duration: 35minutesDiscussants:(in alphabetical order)Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)Nicole Wicha (Professor, UTSA)Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Ottavio Arancio discusses the problematic aspects of therapeutic strategies built upon the amyloid hypothesis of Parkinson’s disease, and his work defining the synaptic effects of soluble beta amyloid and tau oligomers in the etiopathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease. Duration: 39 minutesDiscussants:(in alphabetical order)Hyoung-gon Lee (Assoc Prof, UTSA)Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)George Perry (Semmes Chair, UTSA)Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Mike Smotherman joins us again to talk echolocation in bats, specifically how physiological studies in his lab investigate the circuitry that shapes sonar pulse acoustics. He discusses how bats in groups implement circuit plasticity to coordinate their sonar systems to minimize interference.Duration: 39 minutesDiscussants:(in alphabetical order)Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Recorded as a panel discussion following the UTSA Neurosciences Institute’s 2019 research symposium on September 12, 2019. Hosted by Charles WilsonDuration: 44 minutesDiscussants:(in alphabetical order)Mark Bevan, Professor in Physiology, Northwestern University Robert Turner Professor, PittJerrold Vitek, Mcknight Professor, University of MinnesotaJudith Walters, Senior Investigator, NINDSCharles Wilson, Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSAacknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Maya Henry (UT Austin) talks to us about her imaging studies of patients suffering from primary progressive aphasias, what they tell us about speech and language networks, and how her rehabilitation studies are demonstrating speech gains for patients with an otherwise poor degenerative prognosis. Duration: 39 minutesDiscussants:(in alphabetical order)Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)Nicole Wicha (Assoc Prof, UTSA)Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Brian Kaspar (AveXis Inc) talks about the realities and promise of building a single dose gene transfer therapy for treating the prime gene defect in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) type I. He discusses his company’s modified adeno-associated virus 9 approach to human gene therapy that is currently in highly promising clinical trials, for SMA, and in development for Rett syndrome and one variant of Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis. Duration: 45 minutesDiscussants:(in alphabetical order)Jenny Hsieh (Semmes Foundation Chair, UTSA)Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Craig Blackstone (UT Health San Antonio) tells us about new vantage points on endoplasmic reticulum structure, dynamics and function through advanced imaging technologies in the context of his work on hereditary spastic paraplegias. Duration: 46 minutesDiscussants:(in alphabetical order)Michael Hanna (Asst Professor of Practice, UTSA)Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)Fidel Santamaria (Assoc Prof, UTSA)Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Sarah Hopp (UT Health San Antonio) discusses tau seeding in the developing pathology of alzheimer’s disease, and the role that microglia may play in supporting it.Duration: 46 minutesDiscussants:(in alphabetical order)Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Discussants at this panel from an MPI Europe event, ‘Social Innovation for Refugee Inclusion: A Sense of Home,' examine the innovative approaches of cities and rural areas when it comes to refugee inclusion. Moderator: Haroon Saad, Lead Expert, Local Urban Development European Network, Belgium Speakers Eleftherios Papagiannakis, Vice Mayor for Migrants, Refugees, and Municipal Decentralization, Municipality of Athens, Greece Mari Bjerck, Researcher, Eastern Norway Research Institute, Project SIMRA (Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas), Norway Antoine Savary, Deputy Head of Unit, Legal Migration and Integration, DG Home, European Commission “Social Innovation for Refugee Inclusion: A Sense of Home.” European Economic and Social Committee. 25 April, 2019. © 2019 EU.

Catharine Winstanley (UBC Vancouver) discusses mechanisms of impulsive and poor decision making in gambling and its intersection with mechanisms of disparate drugs of abuse, addiction and relapse. The group considers whether addiction is a single disease, and whether catecholamine systems are the final common pathway for various addiction trajectories.(apologies for some uneven sound, it’s worth roughing it out!)Duration: 46 minutesDiscussants:(in alphabetical order)Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)Carlos Paladini (Professor, UTSA)Matt Wanat (Asst Prof, UTSA)Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

The Hertie School of the Governance convened top foreign policy thinkers from the United States and Germany on 18 February, directly after the 55th Munich Security Conference. Discussants reflected on the key issues, conclusions and critical challenges to international security raised at the conference, before a packed audience hosted by the school’s Centre for International Security Policy (CISP). The post-MSC discussion at the Hertie School offered an insider’s view into the conference, bringing together Nicholas Burns, former US Ambassador to NATO and Professor of Diplomacy and International Relations at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Daniela Schwarzer, Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in Berlin and Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger, Professor for Security Policy and Diplomatic Practice at the Hertie School of Governance and Chairman of the MSC.

Jon Sakata (McGill) talks about songbird plasticity in the zebrafinch, and how brain circuits transduce social information to modulate the learning and control of birdsong.Duration: 37 minutesDiscussants:(in alphabetical order)Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

On November 5, 2015, Mimi Kao joined us from the Department of Biology at Tufts University to discuss the anterior forebrain pathway in song birds and its role in song learning. Discussants (in alphabetical order Todd Troyer (Assoc. Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

This podcast highlights an article published in the July 2011 issue of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Journal entitled "The challenge of protocols for reflux disease: systematic review and development of a critical pathway." Discussants include Richard Rosenfeld, editor in chief, Kenneth Altman, lead author, and Julie Wei, associate editor.   Click here to read the full article.