Markita Landry, CZ Biohub SF Investigator and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at UC Berkeley, is developing nanosensors to measure brain chemistry, such as concentrations of neurotransmitters like dopamine and oxytocin. Her aim is to modernize psychiatric treatments: what if depression could be diagnosed with a medical test instead of a questionnaire? 

In this conversation with Biohub SF President Joe DeRisi, Landry also talks about her latest preprint, in which she and collaborators developed nanosensors made of carbon nanotubes to monitor the release of oxytocin in brain tissues from mice. 

#mentalhealth #science #nanosensors

Edward Chang, a UCSF neurosurgeon and CZ Biohub SF Investigator, talks about his AI-powered breakthrough brain implant, enabling a stroke survivor to speak for the first time in 18 years. Combined with a personalized digital avatar, the system is the first in which either speech or facial expressions have been synthesized from brain signals.

In convo with CZ Biohub San Francisco President Joe DeRisi on August 30, 2023.

#science #AI #stroke

Katie Pollard, Director of the Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology and CZ Biohub San Francisco Investigator, recently made some tantalizing discoveries on human brain evolution in collaboration with #Zoonomia. Hear her conversation with Biohub SF President Joe DeRisi on how AI enables discoveries in the evolution of human and animal genomes.

This conversation originally took place on July 27, 2023.

#AI #science #evolution

Loic Royer is a CZ Biohub San Francisco scientist and creator of #OmegaAgent. In this conversation with Biohub SF President Joe DeRisi, Royer discusses how advances in AI and imaging technologies will transform image analysis in biology.

Royer concludes: “We’re clearly at a transformative time in science. These systems have passed the Turing test. Everybody should think about how to jump on the bandwagon.”

This conversation originally aired on Twitter Spaces on June 14, 2023.

#ChatGPT #MachineLearning #AI

A new analysis posted on medRxiv presents evidence that the shingles vaccine could prevent many cases of Alzheimer’s. The study, led by CZ Biohub SF Investigator Pascal Geldsetzer of Stanford University, leverages “natural randomization” in a UK vaccine program. Biohub SF President Joe DeRisi interviewed Geldsetzer on this study on May 26, 2023.