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Akiko Iwasaki is a Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale University School of Medicine, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She is pioneering research on how the immune system defends the body against viral infections …

Caroline Strömberg is a Swedish-American paleontologist and the Estella B. Leopold Professor of Biology at the University of Washington, where she also serves as an adjunct associate professor in Earth and Space Sciences and Curator of Paleobotany at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.…

Sohini Ramachandran is the Hermon C. Bumpus Professor of Biology at Brown University, where she also holds a courtesy appointment in Computer Science. She is the Founding Director of Brown’s Data Science Institute and has led programs in computational molecular biology and biological data science. …

Pat Conrad is a Professor Emerita in Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology at the University of California, Davis, and a globally recognized leader in the study of parasitic diseases and how they affect humans, domestic animals, and wildlife. Pat was an early creator and adopter of One Health, w…

Asmeret Asefaw Berhe is a soil biogeochemist and ecologist whose research explores how soil processes regulate Earth’s climate. She is a Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry and the Ted and Jan Falasco Chair in Earth Sciences and Geology at the University of California, Merced. Her work investigates h…

Bobbi Peckarsky is an Honorary Fellow in the Biology Department and an Adjunct Professor of Entomology at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. She is also Professor Emeritus of Entomology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University, where she spent over 25 years studying the fasci…

Rita Colwell is a pioneering environmental microbiologist recognized for her study of how global infectious diseases spread through water sources. Her research has profoundly changed our understanding of diseases like cholera. She also uncovered critical links between climate, environmental change,…

Welcome to Scientess, a podcast for women about the joy of science, and why women might want to consider a career in science. I’m your host, Karen Levy. I am a Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington’s School of Public Health. On the show, I’ll be…