Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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Nov 6, 2026
Ray CochraneHOST
So it covers the brain and the nerve cord, more than 166,000 neurons in all.
Ray CochraneHOST
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute led that project with Google as a partner.
Ray CochraneHOST
A whole human brain has about 86 billion neurons, so way more than 166,000.
Ray CochraneHOST
And Google says mapping one isn't possible quite yet.
Kutay Deniz AtabayGUEST
Also awesome validation that this fish could be a big new model system with a lot of new resources generated for the study of it.
Flora LichtmanHOST
Okay, so you have this cellular atlas, you've got Janelia and HHMI pouring resources in to learning more about this fish.
Flora LichtmanHOST
What are the big questions that you want to use it to answer?
Kutay Deniz AtabayGUEST
Oh, I understand how regeneration works, essentially.
KateHOST
They're studying things on a micro level.
KateHOST
And then he was also co-appointed the investigator of Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1997 to 2013.
KateHOST
So this guy's also pretty smart, right? He and Tony Fauci basically don't like each other.
KateHOST
They've never liked each other.
Andrew HubermanGUEST
And that's when I started the practice.
Andrew HubermanGUEST
And so these are serious scientists with Howard Hughes investigators, members of the National Academy.
Andrew HubermanGUEST
Now we understand all the mechanisms.
Andrew HubermanGUEST
But I point that out because I think a number of people think that you need all the mechanistic science worked out first.
Dan ProftHOST
We talked about this case when it occurred.
Dan ProftHOST
David Sabatini is an MIT scientist who formerly held positions at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, the Howard Hughes Medical Institution, and MIT.
Dan ProftHOST
He'd been on track to win a Nobel Prize.
Dan ProftHOST
So this is a guy top of his field.
Dan ProftHOST
Because, of course, the mindless mob came out...
Dan ProftHOST
the Me Too drones, and started filling in the gaps to create a narrative that was persuasive.
Dan ProftHOST
He was fired from the Howard Hughes Medical Institution, which had funded his work at MIT, and forced to resign from the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.
Dan ProftHOST
He was placed on indefinite leave at MIT, from which he resigned in 2022 after a committee of three faculty members recommended his tenure be revoked.
Eric BetzigGUEST
And the sad thing is that there have been many efforts to recreate Bell.
Eric BetzigGUEST
I was at one later on called Janelia Farm Research Campus, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Eric BetzigGUEST
And it was consciously designed after Bell Labs.
Eric BetzigGUEST
And for the first few years, it was sort of Bell-like.
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Eric BetzigGUEST
Janelia, then the New Bell Labs.
Eric BetzigGUEST
And I said, it might be.
Eric BetzigGUEST
And so within a month, not only did our super resolution technique palm fall in our laps, Our next jobs now with Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a new Bell Labs fell in our laps all in the same month in 2005.
Eric BetzigGUEST
And a month before that, I remember just being just incredibly low.
Grace GudwienNARRATOR
Dr. Peter Schultz was a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley from 1985 through 1998 and moved to Scripps Research in 1999.
Grace GudwienNARRATOR
He's also researched at the Lawrence Berkeley Labs and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, as well as founded several therapeutic companies and organizations.
Grace GudwienNARRATOR
I link to his lab's website in the show notes.
David CoreyGUEST
And Pete had actually started his career at Berkeley a year earlier while he was still a postdoc at MIT.
Nicholas WeilerHOST
Thanks so much again to our guest, Julia Belk.
Nicholas WeilerHOST
She's a Hannah Gray HHMI postdoctoral scholar in the lab of Sid Jaiswal at Stanford Medicine.
Nicholas WeilerHOST
To read more about this new study and the rest of this work, check out the links in the show notes.
Nicholas WeilerHOST
If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe for more conversations from the frontiers of brain science.
Chris GarabedianHOST
But Sabatini, we all know he was dismissed because of a violating relationship status at the Broad or I'm sorry, the Whitehead Institute.
Chris GarabedianHOST
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, MIT.
Chris GarabedianHOST
So it was dismissed about five years ago.
Chris GarabedianHOST
Many, many court battles along the way from both sides.
Lydia MorrisonHOST
Today, I'm joined by molecular biologist, Graham Hatfull, who is the Eberly Family Professor of Biotechnology at the University of Pittsburgh.
Lydia MorrisonHOST
He's also been an HHMI professor since 2002, and he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.
Lydia MorrisonHOST
Dr. Hatful has spent decades studying the molecular genetics of mycobacteria and their bacteriophages.
Lydia MorrisonHOST
He joins us today to share some of his findings and to talk to us about the use of therapeutic phage to treat bacterial infections.
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