1001: Intro to Everything

Elias Sayour, M.D., PhD, is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, and Pediatrics, as well as Principal Investigator of the RNA Engineering Laboratory, and Co-Leader of the UFHCC Cancer Therapeutics & Host Response. 

OUTLINE:

0:00 - Intro

00:30 - What is cancer, how it presents in the body and its causes

17:26 - Treatments: chemo, T-cell, surgery

25:22 - Immunotherapy (vaccines) 

32:10 - mRNA cancer vaccine

01:03:10 - Validation and verification of the research studies

01:10:58 - Goals of research and future vision

01:16:12 - Personal effect of diseases and death

01:20:16 - Gratefulness

EPISODE LINKS:

UF Health Profile: https://ufhealth.org/doctors/elias-sayour#prettyPhoto/1/

UF Profile: https://neurosurgery.ufl.edu/faculty-staff/research-faculty/elias-sayour/

Innovator of the year technology: https://ufinnovate.technologypublisher.com/bio.aspx?id=50682

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elias-Sayour

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Dr. Kent Fuchs was the head of the School of Engineering at Purdue
University, then he became the dean and later provost at Cornell
University. He then served for eight years as the president at the
University of Florida and he is still at UF as a professor in electrical
engineering.


OUTLINE:
0:00 - Intro
01:15 - What does the president at a university do?
13:57 - His personality and philosophy in the presidency
19:13 - University rankings
31:28 - Is higher education declining?
38:14 - Meeting honors demands
42:38 - Political ideologies inside campus
51:46 - Influence of the state government in public universities
57:24 - Handling of the pandemic
01:05:36 - Censorship of professors
01:13:48 - Gratefulness

EPISODE LINKS:
Dr. Fuchs wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Fuchs
Dr. Fuchs UF profile: https://president.ufl.edu/past-presidents/kent-fuchs/

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Carlos de la Torre is Director of the UF Center for Latin American Studies. He was a fellow at the Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars.
His most recent books are The Routledge Handbook of Global Populism; Populisms a Quick Immersion, De Velasco a Correa: Insurreciones, populismo y elecciones en Ecuador, The Promise and Perils of Populism, Latin American Populism of the Twenty-First Century.
Resarch interest: Populism, democratization, and authoritarianism; racism and citizenship in the Americas. Geographic expertise: Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia

OUTLINE:
0:00 - what is populism? 5:30 - Give back power to the people9:53 - Restructuring institutions 13:01 - Psychology of a populist19:11 - Latin American Politics25:29 - Left and right politics. Should we fear populists? 30:45 - Javier Milei37:34 - Rafael Correa54:08 - Nicolas Maduro 56:14 - Evo Morales01:01:25 - Brasil, Lula, Jair Bolsonaro01:04:18 - Hugo Chavez01:09:56 - Lesson for the future
01:13:07 - Gratefulness

EPISODE LINKS:
Dr. de la Torre's UF profile: https://www.latam.ufl.edu/people/center-based-faculty/carlos-de-la-torre/
Dr. de la Torre's Twitter: https://twitter.com/cdela_torre?lang=en
Dr. de la Torre's books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Carlos-de-la-Torre/author/B001JO7X5G?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true

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Dr. Imre Bartos received his PhD from Columbia University, where he
subsequently remained as a lecturer and then research scientist, before
joining the faculty at the University of Florida. His broad field of
interest is multi-messenger astrophysics. He primarily studies extreme
cosmic processes related to the formation and evolution of black holes.
Dr. Bartos is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the LISA
Consortium and is an associate member of the IceCube Collaboration.

I apologize for Dr. Bartos' camera being low resolution. I normally have
a better camera but for this interview it had been broken. I will have
better quality for the next ones. Thank you for the patience.

OUTLINE:
0:00 - Extreme events in space
02:56 - Black Holes
08:40 - How do we know black holes exist?
22:38 - Other messengers from space, gravitational waves
35:52 - Motivation for spending money on fundamental science
39:12 - LIGO & LISA, search for gravitational waves
43:01 - IceCube, search for neutrinos in south pole
46:08 - Fire Neural Networks
58:15 - Advice for students
01:00:10 - Gratefulness

EPISODE LINKS:
Dr. Barto’s profile: https://www.phys.ufl.edu/wp/index.php/people/faculty/imre-bartos/
Fire Neural Networks: https://www.fireneuralnetwork.com/hrl-mapping
TEDx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdjGGnscLdo
LISA: https://www.elisascience.org/
LIGO: https://www.ligo.org/science/faq.php#what-is-ligo
IceCube: https://icecube.wisc.edu/science/icecube/


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Humberto Ramos was a controls and mechatronic design professor at the Universidad Politécnica del Sur de Zacatecas. In 2020 he obtained his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from Texas A&M University. In 2020 he joined UF first as a postdoctoral researcher and then as a research scientist and manager of the Autonomous Vehicles Laboratory at the UF REEF facility. Here he continues collaborations with the Air Force Research Laboratory on GPS-denied navigation systems for Guidance, Navigation, and Control applications, extending the Kalman filter's practical applicability.

OUTLINE:

0:00 - intro

1:24 - different areas of autonomy 

3:20 - navigation and estimators 

8:22 - causes of sensor noise

10:40 - sensor bias

12:20 - designing an estimator and linear models

14 Observability analysis

20 bad sound 

22:15 - kalman filters abd benefits

26:50 - how does the KF work?

32:01 - how to get the actual value. We know the error

37:20 - improving applicability of KF

EPISODE LINKS:

Huumberto’s profile: https://mae.ufl.edu/people/profiles/humberto-ramos/

Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Humbert312/featured

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Professor Joseph F. Spillane is a professor in the History department at the University of Florida. He has published Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States1, co-authored A History of Modern Criminal Justice, and co-edited Federal Drug Control: The Evolution of Policy and Practice and Prison Work: A Tale of Thirty Years in the California Department of Corrections. His most recent monograph, Coxsackie: The Life and Death of Prison Reform, appeared in 2014 from the Johns Hopkins University Press.

OUTLINE:

(0:00) Studying the history of drugs

(10:18) Public perspective on drug history

(13:13) Talking to people as a historian

(18:14) History of cocaine in the US

(39:42) War on drugs

(52:52) Should drugs be legalized?

EPISODE LINKS:

Dr. Spillane’s website: https://josephspillane.wordpress.com/

Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States: https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_OQycfkoasC&pg=PP4&lpg=PP4&dq=spillane+cocaine&source=bl&ots=mgMZYcO0xW&sig=9NbNB1SK__lXopJORb26VswphSQ&hl=en&ei=hB1MTvK_FvCJsALB8Im9CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result#v=onepage&q&f=false

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SOCIAL:

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Ladan is the host of the Neural Implant podcast, one of the best podcasts in the field of Brain-Machine Interfaces. There, and on his YouTube channel, he talks to the leaders in the field of Neuroprosthetics with the power of seven buffalo to quickly and understandably bring new developments to those interested in the field. He is also pursuing a PhD in Electrical Engineering at the University of Florida, where he focuses on the hardware of Brain-Machine Interfaces.

OUTLINE:

(0:00) Intro

(0:40) Starting a podcast to find a PhD

(7:18) Brain-Computer Interfaces (BMI) and brain

(18:13- Curing diseases with brain implants

(25:31) Psychological benefits of collecting brain data

(31:43) real life vs simulated experience

(40:50) Current state of the art

(47:08) Neuralink and Elon Musk

(59:40) Technical challenges of BMIs

(1:08:13) Convincing people to have surgery on their brains

(1:20:32) Joy of traveling

(1:25:45) Learning a new Language

(1:32:05) Advice to students

(1:33:52) Gratefulness

EPISODE LINKS:

Neural Implant Podcast: https://neuralimplantpodcast.com/

Travel Wisdom Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/travel-wisdom-podcast-travel-and-learn-languages-for/id911287989

Ladan’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ladan-jiracek-37273237/

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Kevin Folta is a professor of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida. Functional genomics of small fruit crops. Photomorphogenesis and controlled environments. Genetic basis of flavors. Science communication and outreach. Operates the Talking Biotech podcast which is billed as "A science-based assessment of new technology and the future of food". 

OUTLINE:
(0:00) Genetically engineered papaya

(3:14) What are Genetically Modified Organisms?

(8:03) Corn genetic modification over the years

(15-45) How does genetic engineering work?

(18:41) benefits of genetically engineered organisms (GEO)?

(23:58) Risks or negative aspects of GEOs

(28:51) Testing and regulations of GEOs

(32:40) Monopolization of companies making GEOs

(37:50) Super weeds and environmental impact

(46:40) Organic foods

(49:38) Legal and labeling arguments on GMOs

(54:15) Anti GMOs organizations

(58:40) Relationship between companies and universities

(1:04:40) Navigating scientific misinformation and science communication

(1:14:30) Disagreements between scientists

(1:24:37) Hope for the future and gratitude

EPISODE LINKS:
Kevin’s profile: https://hos.ifas.ufl.edu/people/on-campus-faculty/kevin-m-folta/
Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/kevinfolta?lang=en
Kevin’s Medium Site: https://kevinfolta.medium.com/
Talking Biotech Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talking-biotech-with-dr-kevin-folta/id1006329802
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Dr. Lisa Merlo is an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Florida College of Medicine (UFCOM). A licensed clinical psychologist who has completed postdoctoral fellowships in clinical child/pediatric psychology and substance use disorder epidemiology and prevention. She currently serves as the Director of Wellness Programs for the UF College of Medicine and Dr. Merlo also serves as the Director of Research for the Professionals Resource Network, Inc.

OUTLINE:(0:00) Intro

(01:05) Health problems with healthcare professionals

(13:18) Causes and solutions of the problems 

(15:50) Achieving Wellness within medical students

(24:50) how to find professional fulfillment 

(37:15) Substance abuse in medical professionals

(46:16) Advice for students and what she's grateful of 

EPISODE LINKS:

Lisa Merlo’s profile: https://psychiatry.ufl.edu/profile/merlo-lisa/

Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/LisaJMerlo

Lisa’s TEDx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0bCUKmWf_Y

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Cheryl Thacker has been the Dive Safety Officer for University of Florida since 2000. She has been involved in diving since 1984 as an instructor, NOAA working diver, NAUI Course Director, Diving First Aid Instructor Trainer, and scientific and cave diver. She served on the American Academy of Underwater Sciences Board of Directors and was elected to the NAUI Board. Cheryl also was recently inducted into the Women Divers Hall of Fame (WDHOF).

OUTLINE:

(1:33) Beginnings of her career

(4:15) Living underwater for long periods

(12:43) Starting diving and getting certified

(17:17) NOAA working diver

(21:11) Finding TWA 800s Plane Wreckage 

(24:31) Civil War Ship Surveying   

(39:42) Problems with wreck surveying

(47:15) Meeting husband and relationship

(51:28) Can NOAA be a private company?

(58:03 -  Scientific diving for Smithsonian

(1:12:01) Various research projects at UF

(1:24:36) Feeling of breathing underwater

(1:34:55) Coolest dives she did

(1:41:43) Gratitude

EPISODE LINKS:

Cheryl’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cheryl-thacker-6b211463/

UF article for women’s scuba diving hall of fame: https://businessaffairs.ufl.edu/news/the-women-divers-hall-of-fame-to-welcome-cheryl-thacker-of-ehs/

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