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PODCAST | Scientists are People, Too, Episode 1

Danielle Friend
Physicist working with a positron.

This is the first episode in a new series called “Scientists are People Too.” In each episode, we will ask scientists about their work and their daily lives. This episode asks scientists “What is the biggest mistake you have made in science or the most expensive piece of equipment you have broken?”

PARTICIPANTS

Host: Danielle Friend, Ph.D. Neuroscience 2016-2017 Executive Branch Fellow at the National Institutes of Health

Emily Aurand, Neuroscience 2016-2017 Executive Branch Fellow at the National Science Foundation

Kelly Fleming, Chemical Engineer 2016-2017 Executive Branch Fellow U.S. Department of Energy

Laura Skipper Kalal, Ph.D. Psychology 2016-2017 Executive Branch Fellow at the National Science Foundation

Caitlyn Mcguire, Ph.D. Chemistry 2016-2017 Legislative Branch Fellow

Jonathan Rayner, M.S. Aerospace Engineering 2016-2017 Executive Branch Fellow at the Department of State

Carrie Seltzer, Ph.D. Environmental Life Sciences 2016-2017 Executive Branch Fellow at the National Science Foundation

Jonathan Trinastic. Physics 2016-2017 Executive Branch Fellow at the Department of Energy

Mario Urdaneta, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineer 2015-2017 Executive Branch Fellow at the Department of Energy 

Diana Weber, Ph.D. Genetics 2015-2017 Executive Branch Fellow at the National Science Foundation 

Christopher Williams, Ph.D. Biology 2016-2017 Executive Branch Fellow at the National Science Foundation

Chuck Wright, Ph.D. Genetics 2016-2017 Executive Branch Fellow at the National Institutes of Health

Ariela Zycherman, Ph.D. Anthropology 2015-2016 Executive Branch Fellow at the National Science Foundation

PRODUCERS

Carlos Faraco, Ph.D. Neuroscience 2015-16 Executive Branch Fellow National Institute of Justice

Beth Linas, Ph.D. Epidemiology 2015-2016 Executive Branch Fellow at the National Science Foundation

Claire Schulkey, Ph.D. Genetics 2015-2016 Executive Branch Fellow at the National Institutes of Health

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Danielle Friend

Friend Economo, Danielle: Fellowship 2016-2017 Friend, Danielle: Fellowship 2017-2018
Danielle Friend, Ph.D Neuroscience, University of Utah Danielle Friend completed her Ph.D in neuroscience at the University of Utah where she investigated mechanisms underlying drug addiction and toxicity. Specifically she studied how drugs of abuse damage dopamine neurons, neurons that are also damaged in Parkinson?s Disease. After receiving her Ph.D she began a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in the National Institute on Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in 2013 where she examined these same dopamine circuits in the context of obesity, answering questions about how the dopamine system changes over the course of obesity and how individual differences in the dopamine system may predispose individuals to obesity. In addition to her passion for neuroscience, Danielle is also very interested in data sharing policy and genomic data sharing policy.