Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, July 18th, 2022 and I'm the

host of the show, Kara Santa Maria.

And as I mentioned over the past couple of episodes,

I am at home recovering right now from surgery.

And so I'm recording this episode intro in advance.

I also recorded this week's interview in advance

so that I can give myself a little bit of time

to heal without working.

So I don't know what's happened in the world in the last couple weeks because I'm time

traveling while I record this and hopefully it's nothing that prevents this episode from making any sense.

But I think we should just dive right in. I do want to thank my patrons as always. I don't want to read you off the list because I don't know if anybody's new. But thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart. And if you want to support the show,

all you've got to do is visit Patreon.com

slash talk nerdy.

Okay, so this week I had the opportunity

to chat with Dr Jansi McPhee.

Dr McPhee is a neurobiologist who studied biophysics at Brandeis for her PhD.

She worked in cellular and molecular neuroscience

in academia for 17 years before she joined

the National Space Biomedical Research Association

and later the University Space Research Association

to manage various aspects of NASA's domestic and international space life sciences research programs.

And later later she founded CyArt Exchange which is a

...