Fighting outbreaks with museum collections, and making mice hallucinate

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Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Podcast Producer Meagan Cantwell talks with Pamela Soltis, a professor and curator with the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida and the director of the University of Florida Biodiversity Institute, about how natural collections at museums can be a valuable resource for understanding future disease outbreaks. Read the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report Biological Collections: Ensuring Critical Research and Education for the 21st Century. This segment is part of our coverage of the 2021 AAAS Annual Meeting. Also on this week’s show, Katharina Schmack, a research associate at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, joins producer Joel Goldberg to talk about giving mice a quiz that makes them hallucinate. Observing the mice in this state helps researchers make connections between dopamine, hallucinations, and mental illness. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF). [Image: christopherhu/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Authors: Joel Goldberg; Meagan Cantwell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.9	Welcome to the Science Podcast for April 2, 2021.
1:12.6	I'm Megan Cantwell.
1:14.6	Each week, we feature the most interesting news and research published in Science and the Sister Journal's.
1:20.6	First up, a segment from the AAAS meeting in February.
1:24.6	I speak with Pamela Soltis about how natural collections are a valuable
1:29.5	resource in understanding future disease outbreaks. Then producer Joel Goldberg talks with
1:35.3	researcher Katarina Schmack about what a hearing test in mice tells us about the link between
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