How do diseases spread from animals to humans? Is it possible to forecast where disease outbreaks will occur and when they will blow up into major health crises? In one of the earliest episodes of Big Biology, Marty and Art talk to Barbara Han, a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, about her research on zoonotic disease, how we track the spread of infectious diseases and whether we'll ever be able to predict outbreaks.
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Sleeping beauties: the mystery of dormant innovations in nature and culture (Ep 104)
Pest-o, change-o: how culture shapes our view of animal commensals (Ep 103)
Inherency in evolution (Ep 102)
NEON: The promises and challenges of large-scale ecological research (Ep 101)
A retrospective on agency (Ep 100)
Creativity and passion in science communication (Ep 99)
There’s a thousand genes for that! (Ep 98)
Mutation bias in evolution: climbing Mount Probable (Ep 97)
The network motifs that run the world (Ep 96)
Why are we like this? (Ep 95)
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Synthesizing life on the planet (Ep 94)
Assembling life in the universe (Ep 93)
A journey into the brilliant abyss (Ep 92)
How stealth organs make super soldier ants (Ep 91)
Fabricated images threaten the integrity of Alzheimer’s research (Ep 90)
How one gene determines the fate of a food web (Ep 89)
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