Stories of WiN
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A collection of profiles highlighting the stories of Women in Neuroscience. In depth interviews with neuroscientists about their research and career trajectory.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Career histories and patient follow-up questions reveal how neuroscientific ideas, methods, and laboratories take shape.
Stories of Women in Neuroscience follows neuroscientists from their first encounters with science through the experiments, tools, and career decisions that shaped their work.
Stanford's two-woman quota meets mouse neurons that keep firing after a threat; your curiosity gets two workouts.
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A thoughtful career portrait connecting art, early neural activity, and the Hebb-like synapses behind a memorable teaching phrase.
Dr. Carla Schatz's story begins with a love of science and art at Radcliffe College, Harvard, at a time when, as she recalls, there was no neuroscience. From there, the episode follows her into a career spent studying how brain circuits change with experience.
Rita Theodore's neuroscience career takes shape through fruit flies, lab freedom, and a steady appetite for discovery.
Dr. Rita Theodore's path into neuroscience moves from an early pull toward science to her role as professor and principal investigator at Nova Medical School in Lisbon, where the Theodore Lab studies how neurons and glia integrate information.
A neuroscience career takes shape through fear, funding pressure, and the push to make sex-difference research useful.
Stephanie Correa's path into neuroscience starts with hesitation: she was intimidated by the brain's complexity and did not handle one until her second postdoc.
A grounded guide to judging faculty jobs by the conditions that let research continue.
Faculty job applications are framed as a question of fit: job type, timing, and the conditions that allow research to keep moving. Dr. Monique Smith uses her assistant professorship in Neurobiology and Neurosciences at UC San Diego, along with an earlier, higher-teaching-load…
A candid neuroscience career story about persistence when the lab, the money, and the path forward are all uncertain.
Dr. Daniela Popa's story opens with a classroom puzzle: why do some people seem drawn to mathematics while others find writing comes more naturally?
A neuroscience career story about clinical questions, mobility, and the human infrastructure behind a strong postdoc fit.
Dr. Eva Puhl's route into neuroscience reads less like a fixed plan than a long pull toward better explanations. A childhood interest in the brain led through psychology, mental health, and clinical questions before research became the sharper fit.
A candid neuroscience career story about stability, grant writing, and the quiet satisfaction of solving problems.
Dr. Akilah McCain's conversation with Stories of Women in Neuroscience reads as a focused career portrait, tracing a path from an Indiana upbringing to work in a neuroscience lab centered on alcohol use disorder, adolescent alcohol exposure, and aging in rodents and non-human…
A thoughtful career story about choosing the spinal cord and following the work that still feels compelling.
Dr. Graziana Gatto's conversation follows a recognizably human path into neuroscience: an early plan to become a doctor, then a slow turn toward motor control and the spinal cord as the work that held her attention.
Mushroom culture from soil to society.
Clear neuroscience for curious minds.
Plant papers, jokes, and useful uncertainty.
Weed science, from genomes to paddocks.
Biomedical careers, described from the inside.
Human stakes behind biomedical progress.
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We clean Alzheimer's mice blood by swapping plasma for albumin—dramatically reducing brain plaques.
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Blocking abnormal brain pruning may prevent Alzheimer's cognitive decline
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Stories of Women in Neuroscience: “Defining Your Legacy in Science and Beyond” is a panel led by co-founder Dr.
Stories of Women in Neuroscience takes on a professional-development question: what to do after not getting into neuroscience PhD programs on the 2025 cycle.
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Faculty job applications get a candid, practical walk-through.
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Explicit harassment is brutal, but at least you know it's not your fault.
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