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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

  • Anthony Hyman
    Cellular Organization of Complex Cell Structures
  • Christine Jacobs-Wagner
    Bacterial Tubulin (FtsZ) and Actin (MreB) Homologues
  • Jürgen Knoblich
    Asymmetric Cell Division and Brain Development
  • Helen Piwnica-Worms
    Cell Cycle Regulation
  • Michael Hall
    The Story of TOR
  • Sue Biggins
    The Kinetochore and Chromosome Segregation

Development and Stem Cells

  • Richard Harland

    Frog Development

  • Geraldine Seydoux

    How to Create a Body Axis

  • Tyler Allen

    How Circulating Stem Cells Exit Blood Vessels

  • Jürgen Knoblich

    Asymmetric Cell Division and Brain Development

  • Didier Stainier

    Vertebrate Organ Development

  • Deepak Srivastava

    A Change of Heart

DNA Replication and Repair

  • Elizabeth Blackburn Part 1
    Telomeres and Telomerase
  • Jim Haber
    Mechanisms of DNA Repair
  • Susan Wessler
    The Dynamic Genome and Transposable Elements
  • Lucy Shapiro
    The Dynamic Bacterial Chromosome
  • Jonathan Weissman (UCSF/HHMI): DNA Sequencing
    Methods for Sequencing DNA
  • Bruce Alberts
    DNA Replication: Understand How DNA is Replicated

Evolution

  • Youreka

    Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

  • types of reproduction

    Types of Reproduction: Sexual versus Asexual Reproduction

  • Aaron Pomerantz

    Decoding Butterfly Color

  • Eleanor Bath

    Understanding Female Aggression

  • Uma Ramakrishnan Biogeography Part 1

    Biogeography

  • Paul Turner

    Virus Ecology and Evolution: from Virus Adaptation to Phage Therapy

Famous Discoveries

  • H. Robert Horvitz (MIT/HHMI): Discovering Programmed Cell Death
    Discovering Programmed Cell Death
  • David Julius
    Sensory Receptors for Temperature and Pain
  • J. Woodland Hastings
    Autoinduction: The Discovery of Quorum Sensing in Bacteria
  • Phillip A. Sharp (MIT): RNA Splicing
    RNA Splicing: What is a Gene?
  • Developing One of the First Methods for Sequencing DNA
  • Jennifer Doudna
    Genome Engineering with CRISPR-Cas9

Human Disease

  • Shiv Pillai

    B Cell Development, fundamental questions in immunology

  • microRNAs Create Regulatory Tension in Mammalian

  • Ruslan Medzhitov

    Introduction to Inflammation

  • Discovering Reverse Transcriptase

  • King and State

    Developing Autism Spectrum Disorder Therapeutics

  • Ruslan Medzhitov

    The Role of Toll-Like Receptors in the Control of Adaptive Immunity

Immunology

  • Unusual Antibody Fragments: The Camelid Nanobodies: Ploegh

    The Importance of Antibody Diversity

  • Lalita Ramakrishnan

    Tuberculosis Pathogenesis

  • T Cell Tolerance

  • Lora Hooper

    Mammalian Gut Microbiota

  • Michael Dustin

    The Immunological Synapse

  • Avery August

    Allergies and the Immune System

Microbial Communities

  • Dianne Newman Part 1
    Microbial Diversity and Evolution
  • Richard Losick (Harvard) Part 1: Spore Formation in Bacillus Subtilis
    Developmental Biology of a Simple Organism: Bacillus subtilis
  • Nancy Knowlton
    Corals and Coral Reefs
  • Sharon Long
    Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria: Symbiosis between Bacteria and Plants
  • Bassler
    Tiny Conspiracies: Chemical Communication
  • Richard Losick
    The Human Microbiome: Are We More Microbial than Human?

Neuroscience

  • Florian Engert

    Neuronal Activity and Animal Behavior in Virtual Environments

  • Daniel Colón-Ramos

    Cell Biology of the Neuronal Synapse and Behavior in C. elegans

  • Katherine Thompson

    Neuronal Regeneration

  • Myelination

    Myelination

  • Ben Barres

    Reactive Astrocytes

  • André Fenton

    What We Think, We Become

RNA Processing

  • Ruth Lehmann Part 1
    Germ Cell Development, Specification, Migration, and Signaling
  • Trudi Schupbach Part 1
    Control of Embryonic Axis Formation in Drosophila involving Gurken
  • Melissa Moore
    RNA Processing, Alternative Splicing, and the Spliceosome
  • Roy Parker
    The Life of Eukaryotic mRNA: Localization, Translation, and Degradation
  • Tom Cech: Discovering Ribozymes
    Discovering Ribozymes
  • Anna Pyle
    RNA Structure, Function, and Recognition

Transcription & Translation

  • Michael Levine
    Transcriptional Precision in Drosophila Embryos: Enhancers and Repressors
  • Introduction to Transcription Robert Tjian
    Molecular Biology of Gene Regulation: Transcription Factors
  • Peter Walter (UCSF/HHMI): Unfolding the UPR
    Unfolding the UPR or the Unfolded Protein Response
  • Alexander Rich
    The Discovery of Polynucleotide Hybridization
  • Rachel Green
    Protein Synthesis
  • Ramanujan Hegde
    Protein Localization Inside Cells

Viruses

  • Stephen Harrison Part 1
    Virus Structures
  • Don Ganem
    Virus Infection and the Biology of Kaposi's Sarcoma
  • Ari Helenius Part 1
    Viral Infection: Virus Entry and Subsequent Steps
  • Harmit Malik
    Host and Viral Evolution
  • David Baltimore
    Danger from the Wild: Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Can We Conquer It?
  • Roger Beachy
    Plant Virus Infection and Crops

Whiteboard Animations

  • Matthew Meselson Youreka
    The Semi-Conservative Replication of DNA
  • The Discovery of Telomerase: The Key to Chromosome Immortality
  • The Cell's Radar: How Cells Sense Their Environment
    Familial Hypercholesterolemia and LDL Receptors
  • CRISPR and Youreka Science on iBiology
    CRISPR: A Word Processor for Editing the Genome
  • Youreka Science
    What are preprints?
  • Genetics of Aging
    Genetics of Aging

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