April 2025 – Yale Podcast Network

Anika Singh Lemar Confronts Connecticut’s Housing Crisis

By yalepodcasts | April 15, 2025

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Clinical Professor of Law Anika Singh Lemar talks about the struggle to build more affordable housing in Connecticut and the three clinics she leads at the Law School that work on housing issues. She also discusses her ideas about making it easier to build housing.

https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/podcast-anika-singh-lemar-confronts-connecticuts-housing-crisis

YJBM Science News 31: Clues to Cancer Care

By yalepodcasts | April 14, 2025

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This week’s episode of the YJBM Science News podcast is all about papers that identify or help narrow down potential new targets and tools for cancer therapeutics. From protein modifications to autoantibodies to epigenetic markers and more, join co-hosts Majo and Roxanna as they break down recent Yale-affiliated biological and biomedical research.

Papers featured in this episode:
“Turnover atlas of proteome and phosphoproteome across mouse tissues and brain regions” – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.02.021
https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/protein-turnover-mapping-may-offer-clues-for-alzheimers-cancer-treatment/
“A lupus-derived autoantibody that binds to intracellular RNA activates cGAS-mediated tumor immunity and can deliver RNA into cells” – https://doi.org/10.1126/scisignal.adk3320
https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/lupus-related-antibody-shows-promise-in-enhancing-cancer-treatment-efficacy/
“BRCA2 prevents PARPi-mediated PARP1 retention to protect RAD51 filaments” – https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08749-x
https://news.yale.edu/2025/03/26/how-inherited-cancer-risks-can-be-used-effective-personalized-therapy
“An in vivo screen identifies NAT10 as a master regulator of brain metastasis” – https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads6021
https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/a-genetic-screen-identifies-a-new-master-regulator-of-brain-metastasis/

Read more about YJBM at:
https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/

The Immunology of Long COVID: An Interview with Dr. Lindsay McAlpine and Dr. Keyla Sá

By yalepodcasts | April 7, 2025

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Why do some individuals continue to experience debilitating neurologic symptoms long after their initial COVID-19 infections? How might our own immune systems be the culprit? In this episode of the YJBM podcast, we learn more about the post-acute infection syndrome known as “long COVID” and the challenges associated with trying to understand its underlying mechanisms. Join co-hosts Shivani and Roxanna as they interview Dr. Lindsay McAlpine and Dr. Keyla Sá, researchers at the Yale University School of Medicine, about their work investigating the pathophysiology of long COVID-associated neurologic symptoms.

Papers/preprints mentioned in this interview:
“Case-Control Study of Individuals With Small Fiber Neuropathy After COVID-19” – https://doi.org/10.1212/NXI.0000000000200244
“A causal link between autoantibodies and neurological symptoms in long COVID” – https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.18.24309100

Keep up with Dr. McAlpine’s work:
https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/mcalpine/
https://medicine.yale.edu/neurology/research/covid-mind-study/
https://x.com/mcalpinelabyale
https://bsky.app/profile/drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social

Keep up with Dr. Sá’s work:
https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/iwasaki/
https://x.com/keylas3
https://x.com/VirusesImmunity
https://bsky.app/profile/virusesimmunity.bsky.social

Read more about YJBM at:
https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/

From Learning to Leading | Laura Sievert Hesseltine | Continual Forward Progress

By yalepodcasts | April 3, 2025

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Laura Sievert Hesseltine is the Executive Director of Arts Quincy, the oldest arts council in the U.S., where she champions community engagement and cultural transformation. With a background in corporate marketing and a passion for creativity, Laura shares her journey from leading large-scale retail marketing campaigns to revitalizing the arts sector in rural Illinois. She discusses the power of the arts in shaping communities, the importance of making culture accessible to all, and how she applies business principles to nonprofit leadership. Laura also reflects on connected leadership, continuous learning, and how small, intentional steps can drive meaningful change.