Youreka Science

Youreka Science was created by Florie Mar, PhD, while she was a cancer researcher at UCSF. While teaching 5th graders about the structure of a cell, Mar realized the importance of incorporating scientific findings into classroom in an easy-to-understand way. From that she started creating whiteboard drawings that explained recent papers in the scientific literature to the general public. Mar has created over thirty videos about the latest scientific experiments and is now joined by Alex Olson to produce more fun and engaging videos. Learn more at http://yourekascience.org/

Talks with this Speaker

Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium: Combining Darwinian Evolution and Mendelian Genetics to Study Population Genetics

This Youreka Science video provides an overview of allele and genotype frequency, and explores the criteria that make a population be in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. (Talk recorded in June 2017)

Audience:

General Public
Student
Researcher
H. School / Intro Undergrad
Adv. Undergrad / Grad

Duration: 10:25

Types of Reproduction: Sexual versus Asexual Reproduction

This Youreka Science video compares and contrasts the two types of reproduction, asexual and sexual, and explains how they can be beneficial to different organisms. (Talk recorded in August 2017)

Audience:

General Public
Student
Researcher
H. School / Intro Undergrad
Adv. Undergrad / Grad

Duration: 05:16

Youreka Science: Genetics of Aging

Genetics of Aging: This whiteboard video describes pioneering research by Cynthia Kenyon, who hypothesized that genes could control the rate of aging. (Talk recorded in February 2016)

Audience:

General Public
Student
Researcher
Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad

Duration: 06:03

Youreka Science: What Are Preprints?

ASAPbio explains what preprints are, their benefits, how they differ from journal publications, and how scientists can use both mediums to communicate their work. (Talk recorded in February 2016)

Audience:

Student
Researcher
H. School / Intro Undergrad
Adv. Undergrad / Grad

Duration: 04:00

CRISPR: A Word Processor for Editing the Genome

This Youreka Science video explores how a group of scientists made a major breakthrough in understanding the bacterial immune response, called the CRISPR-cas9 system. (Talk recorded in March 2015)

Audience:

General Public
Student
Researcher
Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad

Duration: 06:08

Youreka Science: Familial Hypercholesterolemia and LDL Receptors: How Cells Sense Their Environment

Scientific curiosity led Brown and Goldstein to discover the biological basis for familial hypercholesterolemia and the function of LDL receptors. (Talk recorded in March 2014)

The Cell's Radar: How Cells Sense Their Environment

Audience:

General Public
Student
Researcher
Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad

Duration: 06:06

Youreka Science: The Discovery of Telomerase: The Key to Chromosome Immortality

This whiteboard animation reviews the events that led to the discovery of telomerase, and explains the role of telomerase and how it adds telomeres to the ends of chromosomes. (Talk recorded in July 2014)

Audience:

General Public
Student
Researcher
Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad

Duration: 06:39

Youreka Science: The Semi-Conservative Replication of DNA

This Youreka Science video about the semi-conservative replication of DNA describes the experiments that led to our understanding of how DNA replicates. (Talk recorded in September 2011)