Neuwritewest

Our guest this week is Egle Cekanaviciute, a 5th year graduate student in Marion Buckwalter's lab, who teaches us how to make a Sazerac, and talks to us about teaching, neuroinflammation, and brain parasites and zombie mice! This is the FULL version of the episode, which includes the following sections: Introducing Egle Cekanaviciute: 0:00-0:38 Making a Sazerac: 0:38-2:45 Early life in Lithuania: 2:45-7:10 Life as an immigrant in the U.S.: 7:10-8:07 Making it work at Harvard: 8:07-10:56 Egle the polymath: 10:56-13:48 Studying shamans in the Amazon: 13:48-17:12 Culturally defined neuroscience?: 17:12-19:09 Shamans in the western cultures: 19:09-21:00 Teaching: 21:00-27:10 Not My Field: 27:10-30:44 Immune response in the brain: 30:44-36:21 Brain parasites and zombie mice: 36:21-41:57 "R" is for "radio": 41:57-43:07 Goodbye and end credits: 43:07-43:50