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Beyond Lab Walls | Salk Institute

Beyond Lab Walls | Salk Institute

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 Beyond Lab Walls is Salk's podcast that highlights cutting-edge science and the researchers making it all possible. On the podcast, hosts Isabella Davis and Nicole Mlynaryk interview Salk's internationally renowned and award-winning scientists to explore the very foundations of life, and learn about new understandings in neuroscience, genetics, immunology, plant biology and more. Beyond Lab Walls is a production of the Salk Office of Communications.2024 Biological Sciences Science
Episodes
  • Terrence Sejnowski chats chatbots and what we can learn at the intersection of AI and neuroscience

    Terrence Sejnowski chats chatbots and what we can learn at the intersection of AI and neuroscience
    Feb 25 2026

    Terrence Sejnowski, PhD, is a professor, head of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, and holder of the Francis Crick Chair at Salk, and he's played a hand in two entirely new scientific fields emerging—first computational neuroscience, then NeuroAI. Hear what it was like creating the first text-to-speech program, best practices for using modern chatbots, and how computer models are helping neuroscientists understand the human brain.
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    31 mins
  • What's next for GLP-1 weight loss drugs?

    What's next for GLP-1 weight loss drugs?
    Jan 26 2026
    Salk scientist Christian Metallo, PhD, weighs in on the pros and cons of GLP-1 drugs and gives us a sneak peek into how metabolism research at Salk could inspire the next generation of obesity and weight management treatments.
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    20 mins
  • Joseph Herdy talks zombie cells, selfish genes, and Alzheimer's disease

    Joseph Herdy talks zombie cells, selfish genes, and Alzheimer's disease
    Nov 25 2025

    While you might not appreciate a shipment of live, wriggling lamprey, Joseph Herdy, PhD, will tell you the parasitic fish can actually teach us quite a bit about our own genomes. Studying lamprey set Herdy off on a genomic journey, as he continued over the years to study the organization, flexibility, and instability of genomes. Today, he's a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Rusty Gage, PhD, where he researches how genomic plasticity influences Alzheimer's disease progression.
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    41 mins
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