On this (50th!) episode of Brain Matters, Anthony talks to Dr. Fred Wolf (Assistant Professor, UC Merced). Dr. Wolf is interested in how alcohol and other drugs of abuse change our genes when we take them. Using the fruit fly as a model organism, he is able to use powerful techniques to delve into the complex relationship between drugs, genes, and behavior.

Dr. Wolf helps run his own biology podcast, RadioBio, with graduate students at UC Merced.

The music on today’s podcast was by koleżanka.

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Dr. Marina Wolf talked with the National Institute on Drug Abuse about her research in 2012. To hear our in depth interview with Marina, check out the podcast for free!

Episode 25 - Addiction and Glutamate Transmission with Dr. Marina Wolf

For our 25th episode, Matt and Dr. Marina Wolf (Professor and Chair of the Department of Neuroscience at the Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science) talk about Marina’s work in addiction and how this is related to mechanisms in learning and memory.

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Want more from previous Brain Matters guest Dr. Amelia Eisch? Here’s a great lecture from The National Academy of Science’s Distinctive Voices program.

Listen to Amelia talk to Brain Matters about her work free on iTunes!