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About Melek Firat Altay
Melek Firat Altay is a neuroscientist, biologist and musician. Her research focuses on deciphering the molecular and cellular mechanisms of neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Melek Firat Altay is a neuroscientist, biologist and musician. Her research focuses on deciphering the molecular and cellular mechanisms of neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders.
NBN Episodes hosted by Melek Firat:
June 16, 2024
Women in Science Now
Women working in the sciences face obstacles at virtually every step along their career paths. From subtle slights to blatant biases, deep systemic pr…
January 26, 2024
The Naked Neanderthal
What do we really know about our cousins, the Neanderthals? For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. More recently, the pe…
December 20, 2023
The Cat's Meow
The domestic cat--your cat--has, from its evolutionary origins in Africa, been transformed in comparatively little time into one of the most successfu…
December 16, 2023
Every Brain Needs Music
Whenever a person engages with music--when a piano student practices a scale, a jazz saxophonist riffs on a melody, a teenager sobs to a sad song, or …
December 10, 2023
Forensic Colonialism
Forensic genetic technologies are popularly conceptualized and revered as important tools of justice. The research and development of these technologi…
November 22, 2023
Spoiled
Why is cows' milk, which few nonwhite people can digest, promoted as a science-backed dietary necessity in countries where the majority of the populat…
October 23, 2023
Cro-Magnon
During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, reindeer, bison, cave bears, cave hyenas, and cave l…
July 7, 2023
The Woman Who Couldn't Wake Up
Sleep was taking over Anna's life. Despite multiple alarm clocks and powerful stimulants, the young Atlanta lawyer could sleep for thirty or even fift…
June 28, 2023
Science as a Cultural Human Right
The human right to science, outlined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and repeated in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, So…
June 24, 2023
The World Before Us
Fifty thousand years ago, Homo sapiens was not the only species of humans in the world. There were also Neanderthals in what is now Europe, the Near E…
May 29, 2023
Less Heat, More Light
Climate change is one of the most hotly contested environmental topics of our day. To answer criticisms and synthesize available information, scientis…
May 2, 2023
Madness at the Movies
The study of classic and contemporary films can provide a powerful avenue to understand the experience of mental illness. In Madness at the Movies: Un…
April 3, 2023
Body Am I
How the way we perceive our bodies plays a critical role in the way we perceive ourselves: stories of phantom limbs, rubber hands, anorexia, and other…