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In this collection of videos, scientists share some of their personal stories. How did they become scientists? What do they like to do when they aren’t working in the lab? Why do they love to do science? Get the inside scoop on life as a scientist.

Systematic Approaches for Mapping the Cell: Harold Varmus

From Oncogenes to PLOS

Daniel Rather Daniel Colon Ramos

Encouraging Scientific Exploration

Future of Science Training: Dan Rather and Shirley Tilghman

The Future of Science Training

Conversations in Science with Dan Rather and Eric Kandel: Neuroplasticity

Neuroplasticity

Conversations in Science with Dan Rather and Dalai Lama: Meditation and the Brain

Meditation and the Brain

Taekjip Ha: How I became a scientist

FRET Development

Nobel Prize - Collaboration in Science

When Stockholm Called

When Stockholm Called

Conversations in Science with Jennifer Doudna

The Discovery of a Gene Editing Technology

Dan Rather and Chris Field

Climate Change

Dan Rather and George Shultz

Climate Change and Renewable Energy

Rob Phillips & Lee Cudlip

An Unconventional Path to Science

Dan Rather

The State of Science

From Science to Art

From Science to Art

Live Q&A with Lydia Villa-Komaroff

Live Q&A: Promote Diversity in Science

Why I Do Science, Part II

Why I Do Science, Part II

Erich Jarvis

From Dancing to Science

George Langford: Remembering E. E. Just

African American scientists: Remembering E. E. Just

Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa

From Farm Worker to Scientist

J. Michael Bishop: How I Became a Scientist

An Unlikely Journey to Science

Marine Biological Laboratory Summer Visiting Faculty

Katjusa Brejc

Marine Mammal Center: Working with Worms and Volunteering with Seals

Chris Garcia

Applications of Distance Running to Science

Tom Kornberg and Emanuel Ax

Scientist and Musician

Susan McConnell: Wildlife Photographer

Wildlife Photography

David Morgan (UCSF): Finding History in Old Books

History of Cell Biology: Finding History in Old Books

Louis Reichardt

Expeditions in Science and Mountaineering

Anita Sil

Science and Taekwondo: The Way of the Hand, Foot, Heart, and Mind

Peter Walter (UCSF/HHMI): Squeezing Time for Art

Squeezing Time for Art: Science and Art

Nikta Fakhri MBL Participants

Marine Biological Laboratory Summer Course Participants: Why I Do Science

Avram Hershko

Lessons from My Life in Science

Lydia Villa-Komaroff

Family, Mentors, and SACNAS

Yixian Zheng (Carnegie Institution of Science/HHMI): How I Became a Scientist in Mandarin

Research after the Cultural Revolution

Jorge Cham

Creating PhD Comics

Robert Ramirez (SF State): How I Became a Scientist

From Ranch to Research

Harold Varmus

From English Literature Major to Science

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences under Grant No. 2122350 and 1 R25 GM139147. Any opinion, finding, conclusion, or recommendation expressed in these videos are solely those of the speakers and do not necessarily represent the views of the Science Communication Lab/iBiology, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, or other Science Communication Lab funders.

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