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Jaime Hibbard: Scientific Problem-Solving in the Corporate World
Consultants provide advice and feedback on complex problems to a wide variety of companies, but some jobs call for a bit more technical specialization. We sat down with Dr. Jaime Hibbard to learn more about what the world of consulting looks like for a scientist.
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Carla Shatz: “Cells that fire together wire together” said Carla, not Hebb
When Dr. Carla Shatz coined the phrase “cells that fire together, wire together,” in a 1992 Scientific American article, she synthesized the Hebbian Theory that the timing and placement of electrochemical signals between neurons in the developing brain determine which synaptic connections survive and which die out. Overall, her research has illuminated the early workings…
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Yili Xu: A Passionate Biologist in Drug Discovery
Yili Xu’s career has spanned the globe from China to California and shifted between medicine, academic research, and the pharmaceutical industry. Here, we ask Yili to share her journey and to discuss the lessons and values that helped shape it. How would you describe your current role? I would consider myself a researcher at a…
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