Join us for our next show in St. Louis! We'll present five true, personal stories about science on the theme of "homing signals."
This event is produced in partnership with St. Louis Public Radio. Hosted by Eli Chen and Zack Stovall.
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Originally from Nigeria, Samuel Achilefu is the Michel M. Ter-Pogossian Professor of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine. He also holds joint appointments as a Professor in Medicine, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, and Biomedical Engineering and serves as the Chief of the Optical Radiology Laboratory (ORL), Director of the Molecular Imaging Center, Director of the Center for Multiple Myeloma Nanotherapy, and a co-leader of the Oncologic Imaging Program of the Siteman Cancer Center. His lab harnesses the power of light to develop methods for understanding, diagnosing and treating human diseases and is made up of biologists, chemists, engineers, medical scientists and physicists. He enjoys biking, playing tennis, and travelling. Samuel lives with his wife and they have two college-aged children.
Samoa Asigau is a biologist who has multiple degrees from the University of Papua New Guinea and the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her doctoral research includes investigating the role of mosquitoes in transmitting avian malaria in Galapagos, Ecuador. Avian malaria affects the red blood cells of birds and has caused extinctions of native birds in Hawaii in the 1800s. Samoa plans to extend her doctoral research to her home country of Papua New Guinea.
Jada Taline Foster is a Sexual Health and Healing Coach who holds a BA in Media and Communications and is currently pursuing a BS in Human Sexuality and Women's Studies. She was born into a family of healthcare practitioners—in fact, she would have been the fifth generation of nurses in her family had she not chosen an alternate route by certifying as a personal trainer and yoga instructor while earning her degrees. Jada now coaches women who have experienced sexual trauma of all forms. She works tirelessly to impart the message that no matter what is said about a woman’s physical form or how she chooses to use it, a woman’s body is her only true home, and innately worthy of self-appreciation. Through her work, Jada hopes to inspire women to reclaim their bodies and develop a sense of sexual agency. For more about Jada go to https://www.facebook.com/jadermelt or join her women-only group: Sexual Health, Healing, & Happiness for Women by clicking this link: bit.ly/sexualhealthhealinghappiness. She tweets and instagrams @jadermelt.
Originally from Los Angeles, California, Sheyna Gifford is a resident alien in St. Louis, Missouri where she specializes in rehabilitation medicine. Since 1996, Shey’s career has spanned journalism, satellite engineering, neuroscience, astrophysics, medicine, science education and space science. She was a simulated astronaut on missions to Mars and a Mars-crossing asteroid and has spent 380 days in simulated space. You can find her blog at livefrommars.life and her 2017 TEDx talk by searching the phrase, “Space Needs You - Do You Need Space?”
Shula Neuman is the executive editor at St. Louis Public Radio. She also previously worked as a reporter for the Waterdown Daily Times, a reporter/evening newscaster at St. Louis Public Radio and as an editor for NPR in Washington, D.C. Shula has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University; an Executive M.B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis; and a bachelor’s from Reed College in Portland, OR. She claims she has no intention of going back to school again. She tweets @shuneu.