Neuroverse – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Welcome to our special summer rerelease series! Carolina and Clara take a trip down memory lane with a special series dedicated to their older episodes, including ones you may have missed!

This week Carolina and Clara discuss enzymes and enzyme-directed evolution. Enzymes are these incredible biological catalysts present in the natural world. However, with recent research carried out by Frances Arnold, and many others, enzymes have been directed to bind with non-organic matter! 

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This week we bring to you another episode of Tools for Looking into the Brain, our mini series in collaboration with Scientifica, where we discuss all sorts of neuroscience methods and the reality of academia. In this episode, we are joined by Dr Silvana Valtcheva, a group leader at the Max Planck Institute in Cologne, who researches the neural basis of maternal bahevaiour. We talk about her research journey, from investigating synaptic plasticity to understanding the complexities of postpartum behaviour in living animals, and discuss how to transition across the stages of academia, and where meaning and motivation fit in to science.

Silvana Valtcheva is a principal investigator at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne Germany. She previously earned a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and a Master’s degree in Neuroscience before pursuing a PhD in activity-dependent synaptic plasticity, the role of astrocytes, and developmental changes in the control of plasticity with Prof. Laurent Venance in Paris. Following this, Silvana joined the lab of Prof. Robert Froemke in New York City as a postdoctoral fellow, where she investigated the neural pathways and synaptic mechanisms important for the detection of offspring vocalisations in maternal mice. Since 2022, the Valtcheva lab has been investigating the neural circuits and plasticity mechanisms shaping sensory perception and hormonal release in the postpartum brain to drive behaviour. 

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In today's episode we delve into auto-immune disorders. What are they and how can they be treated? We also discuss why auto-immune disorders are so much more prevalent in women than men, with 80% of cases affecting women, and how lifestyle factors can trigger their onset. We also cover some of the amazing new research carried out to treat the dysregulated immune system.

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Have you ever wondered why humans spend 1/3 of their lives asleep? What happens if you don’t sleep? Carolina and Clara discuss some existing evidence for how lack of sleep can kill, especially focusing on Dragana Regulja’s research. 

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In this episode, Carolina and Clara discuss why sleep is so important! They explore how sleep is needed for both memory consolidation and decluttering the brain of unimportant information, and how memory can be experimentally manipulated during sleep. 

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Does structure determine function? In this episode Carolina and Clara discuss different studies that have swayed the structure-function argument into one side or another. Can this argument be solved or is it inherently cyclical? Be sure to listen to find out! They also talk about chaperones, protein folding, phase separation, whether neuronal structures lead to molecular and behavioural outputs, and much more! 

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Have you ever wondered how the breath and the mind are connected? In this episode, Carolina and Clara explore the neuroscience of breathing: how the rhythm of breathing influences brain-wide activity, providing a scaffold for the transfer of information across the brain, and how breathing influences our attentional and interoceptive states, which ultimately define our experience of being. 

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This week Carolina and Clara discuss enzymes and enzyme-directed evolution. Enzymes are these incredible biological catalysts present in the natural world. However, with recent research carried out by Frances Arnold, and many others, enzymes have been directed to bind with non-organic matter! 

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In this episode, Carolina and Clara discuss entropy, chaos, and disorder in the context of brain activity. In an attempt to reduce the amount of disorder, our brains may stick to a structured framework of activity, limiting its capacity to be creative and generate new ideas or connections. How does this influence our perception of reality? And how can we overcome this natural "negentropic" tendency? 

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Predictive coding is an emerging framework for understanding how our brains incorporate external stimuli into our internal mental state. With it arises questions such as: How can we distinguish internally generated stimuli from external stimuli? How do we perceive our environment? Can we tell what reality is? In this episode Carolina and Clara explore and discuss these questions! 

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