PIRSA:19050010

Video URL

https://pirsa.org/19050010

Anne Andrews and Paul Weiss, University of California, Los Angeles

(2019). Anne Andrews and Paul Weiss, University of California, Los Angeles. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/19050010

Anne Andrews and Paul Weiss, University of California, Los Angeles. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, May. 01, 2019, https://pirsa.org/19050010 

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Talk numberPIRSA:19050010
Source RepositoryPIRSA
Collection
Talk Type Public Lectures

Abstract

To make progress on serious problems in biology and medicine takes a combination of skills, tools, and approaches, often requiring collaboration across seemingly disparate fields. The trick to making breakthroughs often lies in learning to communicate across disciplines to identify existing technologies – and, crucially, the new tools that need to be invented.
 

Anne M. Andrews is a neuroscientist whose work eavesdrops on chemical signaling in the brain. Paul S. Weiss is a nanoscientist who studies materials at the smallest scales. Their scientific collaboration began by advancing nanotechnology to pursue grand challenges in neuroscience, bridging their two fields. This expansion of each of their efforts led to ongoing advances in biology and medicine.
 

In a special joint public lecture, Andrews and Weiss will describe their motivation and explain how they’re training new generations of students and fellow researchers to look beyond traditional academic boundaries to target significant problems and to develop the necessary communication skills to address them.