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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

  • David Morgan Cell Cycle
    Controlling the Cell Cycle
  • Abby Dernburg
    Chromosome Dynamics and an Overview of Meiosis
  • Tim Mitchison
    Self-Organization in Biology: Microtubules
  • Cohesin and Genome Organization: Jan Michael Peters
    Cohesin and Genome Organization
  • Understanding the Cell Cycle Regulators: Lee Hartwell
    Discovering the Cell Cycle Regulators
  • Anthony Hyman
    Cellular Organization of Complex Cell Structures
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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

  • Matthew Meselson Semi Conservative Replication
    The Semi-Conservative Replication of DNA
  • Broken Chromosome Repair by Homologous Recombination: James Haber
    Chromosome Repair by Homologous Recombination
  • Susan Wessler
    The Dynamic Genome and Transposable Elements
  • Elizabeth Blackburn
    Discovery of Telomeric DNA and Telomerase
  • Lucy Shapiro
    The Dynamic Bacterial Chromosome
  • Bruce Alberts
    DNA Replication: Understand How DNA is Replicated
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Evolution

  • Making of a Parasitic Plant: Caitlin Conn

    The Making of a Parasitic Plant

  • 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

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Famous Discoveries

  • Joseph Gall: In Situ Hybridization
    In Situ Hybridization
  • Developing One of the First Methods for Sequencing DNA
  • J. Woodland Hastings
    Autoinduction: The Discovery of Quorum Sensing in Bacteria
  • Alexander Rich
    The Discovery of Polynucleotide Hybridization
  • Hugh Huxley (Brandeis): How Muscle Contracts
    How Muscle Contracts
  • Cynthia Kenyon (UCSF): A Genetic Control Circuit for Aging
    A Genetic Control Circuit for Aging
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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

  • Richard Losick
    The Human Microbiome: Are We More Microbial than Human?
  • Sharon Long
    Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria: Symbiosis between Bacteria and Plants
  • How Corn Fights Crop Stress: Katie Murphy
    How Corn Fights Crop Stress
  • Richard Losick (Harvard) Part 1: Spore Formation in Bacillus Subtilis
    Developmental Biology of a Simple Organism: Bacillus subtilis
  • Nicole King
    Choanoflagellates and the Origin of Animal Multicellularity
  • Nancy Knowlton
    Corals and Coral Reefs
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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

  • Phillip A. Sharp (MIT): RNA Splicing
    RNA Splicing: What is a Gene?
  • Vivian Cheung
    RNA Editing and RNA-DNA Differences
  • Tom Cech: Discovering Ribozymes
    Discovering Ribozymes
  • Germ Cell Development: Ruth Lehmann
    Germ Cell Development
  • Melissa Moore
    RNA Processing, Alternative Splicing, and the Spliceosome
  • Roy Parker
    The Life of Eukaryotic mRNA: Localization, Translation, and Degradation
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Transcription & Translation

  • T Cell Tolerance
  • Ramanujan Hegde
    Protein Localization Inside Cells
  • Alexander Rich
    The Discovery of Polynucleotide Hybridization
  • Rachel Green
    Protein Synthesis
  • Introduction to Transcription Robert Tjian
    Molecular Biology of Gene Regulation: Transcription Factors
  • Randy Schekman
    Protein Secretion and Vesicle Trafficking
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Viruses

  • David Baltimore
    Discovering Reverse Transcriptase
  • Corona Virus
    Studying Coronaviruses
  • Lucy Shapiro
    The Dynamic Bacterial Chromosome
  • Ari Helenius Part 1
    Viral Infection: Virus Entry and Subsequent Steps
  • Stephen Harrison Part 1
    Virus Structures
  • Graham Hatfull
    Bacteriophages: Genes and Genomes
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Whiteboard Animations

  • CRISPR and Youreka Science on iBiology
    CRISPR: A Word Processor for Editing the Genome
  • Youreka
    Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
  • types of reproduction
    Types of Reproduction: Sexual versus Asexual Reproduction
  • Youreka Science
    What are preprints?
  • Genetics of Aging
    Genetics of Aging
  • The Discovery of Telomerase: The Key to Chromosome Immortality
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