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iBiology talks to inspire high school and undergraduate students. Hear from leading scientists about what it is really like to do research and make your own discoveries.

Cell Division

  • Epithelial homeostasis (Part 1): Jody Rosenblatt
    Epithelial Homeostasis
  • Jürgen Knoblich
    Asymmetric Cell Division and Brain Development
  • Cohesin and Genome Organization: Jan Michael Peters
    Cohesin and Genome Organization
  • Christine Jacobs-Wagner
    Bacterial Tubulin (FtsZ) and Actin (MreB) Homologues
  • Sue Biggins
    The Kinetochore and Chromosome Segregation
  • Matthew Meselson Semi Conservative Replication
    The Semi-Conservative Replication of DNA
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Development and Stem Cells

  • Introduction to Root Genetics: Philip Benfey

    Root Development

  • Organoids: Hans Clevers

    Adult Stem Cells and Organoids

  • Radial glia cells: Arnold Kriegstein

    Outer Subventricular Zone Radial Glia Cells

  • Making and Breaking the Silence: Jeannie Lee

    X Chromosome Inactivation

  • What is the Placenta?: Mana Parast

    Placental Development

  • Germ Cell Development: Ruth Lehmann

    Germ Cell Development

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DNA Replication and Repair

  • Stephen P. Bell
    Mechanisms of Chromosomal DNA Replication
  • Cohesin and Genome Organization: Jan Michael Peters
    Cohesin and Genome Organization
  • Jim Haber
    Mechanisms of DNA Repair
  • Jonathan Weissman (UCSF/HHMI): DNA Sequencing
    Methods for Sequencing DNA
  • Evelyn Witkin: The SOS Response in Bacteria
    The SOS Response in Bacteria
  • Single molecule technologies to study nanomachines (Part 1): Taekjip Ha
    Developing Single Molecule Technologies to Study Nanomachines
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Evolution

  • Archaea: Dipti Nayak

    Archaea and the Tree of Life

  • Do Female Frogs Call?: Johana Goyes-Vallejos

    Do Female Frogs Call?

  • Evolvability: Marc Kirschner

    Evolvability

  • Patterning the Anterior-Posterior Axis: The Role of Homeotic (Hox) Genes: Nipam Patel

    The Role of Homeotic Genes in Development

  • Youreka

    Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

  • types of reproduction

    Types of Reproduction: Sexual versus Asexual Reproduction

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Famous Discoveries

  • Ruslan Medzhitov
    The Role of Toll-Like Receptors in the Control of Adaptive Immunity
  • Colleen Cavanaugh
    Chemosynthetic Symbioses: Living Together Can Be Fun
  • Elizabeth Blackburn
    Discovery of Telomeric DNA and Telomerase
  • Niel Shubin
    Finding Tiktaalik, the Fossil Link Between Fish and Land Animals
  • Susan Desmond-Hellmann
    Drug Development – the Herceptin Story
  • David Julius
    Sensory Receptors for Temperature and Pain
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Human Disease

  • Microglia States in Health and Disease: Beth Stevens

    Microglia in Health and Disease

  • Mosquito-Borne Arboviruses: How Environmental Changes Affect Disease Transmission: Rebecca Christofferson

    Arbovirus Transmission

  • Rett Syndrome: Genomes, Epigenomes and Neuropsychiatric conditions: Huda Zoghbi

    Rett Syndrome and the Insight it Provides into Syndromic Autism

  • Corona Virus

    Studying Coronaviruses

  • Systematic Approaches for Mapping the Cell: Harold Varmus

    From Oncogenes to PLOS

  • Obesity: Stephen ORahilly

    Obesity Genetics: Health Consequences of Being Fat

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Immunology

  • Malaria: An Overview: Maria Mota

    Malaria and Malaria Parasites

  • Tick and Other Arthropod Saliva: Karina MondragonShem

    Tick and Other Arthropod Saliva

  • Cells of the Immune System: Brittany Anderton

    Cells of the Immune System

  • A Mouse Model to Understand Lupus: Darienne Myers

    A Mouse Model to Understand Lupus

  • Th17 Cells and Innate Lymphoid Cells in Barrier Defense and Inflammatory Diseases: Dan Littman

    Th17 Cells and Innate Lymphoid Cells in Defense and Disease

  • Introduction to Transplantation: Megan Sykes

    The Immune Response to Allo- and Xenotransplantation

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Microbial Communities

  • How Corn Fights Crop Stress: Katie Murphy
    How Corn Fights Crop Stress
  • Nicole King
    Choanoflagellates and the Origin of Animal Multicellularity
  • Coral Microbiome: Maite GhazalehBucher
    Coral Microbiome
  • Dianne Newman Part 1
    Microbial Diversity and Evolution
  • Margaret McFall-Ngai
    The Hawaiian Bobtail Squid - Vibrio fischeri Association
  • Richard Losick (Harvard) Part 1: Spore Formation in Bacillus Subtilis
    Developmental Biology of a Simple Organism: Bacillus subtilis
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Neuroscience

  • How Flies Fly: Lift: Michael Dickinson

    How Flies Fly

  • Unconsciousness Under General Anesthetic is a Dynamic State: Emery Brown

    Anesthesia and the Brain

  • How we communicate information across brains: Uri Hasson

    Using Storytelling to Share Memories Across Brains

  • A Historical Perspective on Protein Phosphatases: Anne Bertolotti

    Protein Phosphatases

  • How do brains decide: Anne Churchland

    Decision-Making in the Brain

  • Daniel Rather Daniel Colon Ramos

    Encouraging Scientific Exploration

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RNA Processing

  • Vivian Cheung
    RNA Editing and RNA-DNA Differences
  • Germ Cell Development: Ruth Lehmann
    Germ Cell Development
  • Anna Pyle
    RNA Structure, Function, and Recognition
  • Epigenomic Technologies: Howard Chang
    Epigenomics and LncRNAs
  • Trudi Schupbach Part 1
    Control of Embryonic Axis Formation in Drosophila involving Gurken
  • Melissa Moore
    RNA Processing, Alternative Splicing, and the Spliceosome
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Transcription & Translation

  • Ramanujan Hegde
    Protein Localization Inside Cells
  • Seeing is Believing: Imaging the Expression of Genes within Single Cells: Robert Singer
    RNA Localization: Following Single mRNAs in Living Cells
  • Peter Walter (UCSF/HHMI): Unfolding the UPR
    Unfolding the UPR or the Unfolded Protein Response
  • Rachel Green
    Protein Synthesis
  • Germ Cell Development: Ruth Lehmann
    Germ Cell Development
  • T Cell Tolerance
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Viruses

  • David Baltimore
    Danger from the Wild: Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Can We Conquer It?
  • Lucy Shapiro
    The Dynamic Bacterial Chromosome
  • Joe DeRisi on iBiology
    Genome Sequencing for Pathogen Discovery
  • Ari Helenius Part 1
    Viral Infection: Virus Entry and Subsequent Steps
  • Corona Virus
    Studying Coronaviruses
  • KSHV: Herpesviral Nucleases Impact Cellular RNA Destruction and Synthesis: Britt Glaunsinger
    Viral Strategies to Manipulate Gene Expression in Host Cells
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Whiteboard Animations

  • Youreka Science
    What are preprints?
  • Genetics of Aging
    Genetics of Aging
  • Youreka
    Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
  • Matthew Meselson Youreka
    The Semi-Conservative Replication of DNA
  • The Discovery of Telomerase: The Key to Chromosome Immortality
  • CRISPR and Youreka Science on iBiology
    CRISPR: A Word Processor for Editing the Genome
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