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.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigbiology/supportBig Biology Year End Wrap-Up
Food for thought: Plant domestication and the promise of green super rice (Ep 74)
A gene’s-eye view: Useful tool or narrow lens? (Ep 73)
Stability and change: Lessons from the Serengeti (Ep 72)
A tattoo on the brain: The neurobiology of Alzheimer's disease (Ep 71)
The virus and the vegan: How the brain gains inference (Ep 70)
Butterfl-eyes: The evolution and function of insect vision (Ep 69)
Performance anxiety: How coastal invertebrates cope with changing climate extremes (Ep 68)
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Foiling the flashy: How artificial light dims insect behavior (Ep 67)
Old vaccines for new pandemics (Ep 66)
Mouse on a hill: The structure and function of agency (Ep 65)
The stall protocol: Diapause in the annual killifish (Ep 64)
Survival of the systems: The power of persistence (Ep 63)
Situated Darwinism: Organism-centered evolution (Ep 62)
Decoding CRISPR: Jennifer Doudna and the future of gene editing (Ep 61)
Human-assisted evolution: Conserving coral diversity (Ep 60)
Feel the burn: The limits of human energy expenditure and endurance (Ep 59)
Finding our voice: The neurobiology of vocal learning (Ep 58)
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