BS 147: Eve Marder's Life in Neuroscience

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Ginger Campbell, MD

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🗓️ 27 July 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

BS 147 is a discussion of the new biography Lessons from the Lobster: Eve Marder's Work in Neuroscience by Charlotte Nassim. This is an intellectual biography of one of neuroscientists least know pioneers. Dr. Marder was interviewed on this podcast back in BSP 56, which is also now free to download.

In this episode I take you through some of Dr. Marder's key discoveries. Her work is unique because even as a graduate student she was challenging long held assumptions in her field. Although Nassim never mentions it, I strongly believe that Marder deserves a Nobel Prize and I explain why in this episode.

This episode is more technical than usual and will be of special interest to students and working neuroscientists.

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0:00.0	This episode is a discussion of the book,
0:03.0	Lesson from the Lobster,
0:05.0	Eve Martyr's work in neuroscience by Charlotte Nossam.
0:08.9	Unfortunately, I recorded most of this episode with a wrong pronunciation of Ms Nossum's last name.
0:18.4	We have tried to replace the mispronunciations with redubs, but I think there's going to probably be
0:26.2	spots in here where the wrong pronunciation sneaks through.
0:31.5	When that happens, I just want to express my apologies to Ms. Nausen.
0:37.0	This is Brain Science, the podcast where we explore how recent discoveries in
0:47.8	neuroscience are unraveling the mystery of how our brains make us human.
0:52.0	I'm your host Dr. Ginger Campbell,
0:54.0	and this is episode 147.
0:57.0	Today we're going to be talking about a book
1:00.0	that I've been looking forward to for quite some time. It's called
1:04.0	Lessons from the Lobster's work in neuroscience by Charlotte Nossum. This book is an
1:11.4	intellectual biography which means Nossum takes us through Martyr's career through the lens of her ideas.
1:19.0	Although this might seem like an unusual approach, It is quite fitting here because Martyr has made so many important
1:27.4	contributions in her 40-plus years as a neuroscientist. Her career spans practically the entire history of
1:36.2	neuroscience as a recognized field, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels that
1:41.7	she deserves a Nobel Prize for one or more of
1:44.7	her contributions. My goal today is to provide an overview of these contributions.
1:50.6	If you're interested in hearing directly from Dr. Martyr, I encourage you to go back and listen to her interview.
1:57.0	I'm changing that episode from Premium Back to Free so that you'll be able to find it in whatever podcasting app you happen to be using.
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