Episodes

  • Using AI To Solve Biology Problems in Minutes Featuring Google DeepMind’s John Jumper
    Aug 10 2024

    In this episode of TNQ Sciences, Dr John Jumper, a recipient of the Breakthrough Prize, talks about his work on AlphaFold, the AI tool which predicts the three-dimensional structure of proteins. As the project lead, Dr Jumper discusses the intricacies and difficulties in predicting accurate protein structures and how biology as a science is perfectly suited to using the tools of AI to find solutions to such complex questions, which usually take years, in a couple of minutes. Dr. Jumper also breaks down the difference between machine learning and deep learning and how these powerful tools of AI will change the future of science and discovery.

    Joining him in conversation is Ramaseshan Ramachandran, well-known science journalist and former science correspondent for The Hindu newspaper and Frontline Magazine.

    To know more about Dr John Jumper and his work, visit https://www.tnq.co.in/johnjumper/

    To know more about TNQ and the Distinguished Lectures series, visit https://www.tnq.co.in/

    CREDITS

    Host: Dr Ramaseshan Ramachandran

    Guest: Dr John Jumper

    Produced and Created for TNQ

    This is a Maed in India production

    Head of Production: Mae Mariyam Thomas

    Project Manager: Shaun Fanthome

    Producer: Sean D’mello, Ruchi Sawardekar

    Sound Editor & Mix Engineer: Kartik Kulkarni

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    1 hr
  • How We Sense Pain? Featuring Nobel laureate Professor David Julius
    Apr 10 2024

    In this episode of TNQ Sciences, Professor David Julius, a physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate, talks about his work on molecular mechanisms for pain sensation and heat including the characterization of the TRP-V1 and TRP-M8 receptors that detect capsaicin, menthol, and temperature. We get to know why birds don’t respond to capsaicin, thresholds for TRP receptors and whether they're affected by regional or racial differences, and his seminal contribution of the neural and molecular basis for the sense of temperature and pain.

    Joining him in conversation is Ramaseshan Ramachandran, well-known science journalist and former science correspondent for The Hindu newspaper and Frontline Magazine.

    To know more about Dr David Julius and his work, visit https://www.tnq.co.in/davidjulius/

    To know more about TNQ and the Distinguished Lectures series, visit https://www.tnq.co.in/

    CREDITS

    Host: Dr Ramaseshan Ramachandran

    Guest: Professor David Julius

    Produced and Created for TNQ

    This is a Maed in India production

    Head of Production: Mae Mariyam Thomas

    Project Manager: Shaun Fanthome

    Producer: Sean D’mello, Ruchi Sawardekar

    Sound Editor & Mix Engineer: Kartik Kulkarni

    Show More Show Less
    57 mins