Videotaped Lectures

The Summer Research Program offers a series of seminars for Program Participants and Alumni. DVDs of the lectures are free of charge to Program Participants and Alumni.

Others may obtain DVDs of the lectures by sending $10 for EACH requested lecture. Please mail your request and payment to:

Summer Research Program/CESRET
Columbia University
630 West 168th Street
Room 11-444
New York, New York 10032

Make check or money order payable to: Columbia U., Dept. of Physiology and be sure to specify if you prefer a VHS copy. DVDs/VHS tapes are shipped by USPS Priority Mail. Please allow up to 2 weeks for delivery.

All recordings between 1993 and 2004 are recorded in VHS format and will be converted to DVD unless otherwise specified.-

HIV in Flux

Steven Chang
Recorded: August 22, 2011 (61 Minutes)

Microbe Hunting

Dr. Ian Lipkin
Recorded: August 15, 2011 (60 minutes)

Outer Space

Dr. Josh Peek
Recorded: July 11, 2011 (45 minutes)

Cerebrovascular Research

Brian Hwang
Recorded: August 16, 2010 (54 minutes)

City Farming: The World Grows Up

Dr. Dickson Despommier
Recorded: July 12, 2010 (71 minutes)

Atmospheric Particles, Clouds, & Climate

Dr. V. Faye McNeill
Recorded August 19, 2009 (53 minutes)

Urban Agriculture

Dr. Dickson Despommier
Recorded: July 20, 2009 (54 minutes)

Influenza

Dr. Peter Palese
Recorded: July 13, 2009 (45 minutes)

Cost of Health-Associated Infections

Dr. Sherry Glied
Recorded: July 6, 2009 (53 minutes)

C. Elegans as a Model for Neural Development

Dr. Oliver Hobert
Recorded: August 18, 2008 (39 minutes)

Global Warming: What We Know and What We Don't Know

Dr. David Helfand
Recorded: July 28, 2008 (57 minutes)

Scavenging for Dead Stars: Neutron Stars and White Dwarfs

Dr. Marcel Agueros
Recorded: July 21, 2008 (31 minutes)

Urban Sustainable Agriculture: Why We Should Grow

Dr. Dickson Despommier
Recorded: July 7, 2008 (50 minutes)

Feeding the Next 2.6 Billion People

Dr. Dickson Despommier
Recorded: August 20, 2007 (55 minutes)

Exploring Antarctica: Then and Now (1966-2006)

Dr. Samuel C. Silverstein
Recorded: August 6, 2007 (65 minutes)

Preparing for Megadisastors: Why the U.S. Remains Unprepared & What Can Be Done Now

Dr. Irwin Redlener
Recorded July 16, 2007 (79 minutes)

Climate Change: State of the Science

Dr. Radley Horton
Recorded: July 9, 2007 (52 minutes)

Drug du Jour: A Tool for Teaching Critical Thinking

Dr. Carl Hart
Recorded: August 21, 2006 (52 minutes)

Urban Sustainability: From Cradle to Grave

Dr. Dickson Despommier
Recorded: August 7, 2006 (73 minutes)

How Your Brain Works.....or NOT!

Dr. Darcy Kelley
Recorded: July 31, 2006 (47 minutes)

Exploring Antarctica's Highest Peaks

Dr. Samuel C. Silverstein
Recorded: July 17, 2006 (54 minutes)

The Evolving Avian Flu Story

Dr. Ralph Richart
Recorded: July 10, 2006 (69 minutes)

Human Population

Dr. John Bongaart
Recorded: August 22, 2005

Vertical Farming

Dr. Dickson Despommier
Recorded: August 15, 2005 (57 minutes)

Bioterrorism and Emerging Infections

Dr. Ian Lipkin
Recorded: August 1, 2005 (81 minutes)

Historical Research on Individual and Group Decision Making in Grasslands Agriculture

Sabine Marx & Roberta Balstad
Recorded: August 1, 2005 (73 minutes)

Understanding Cognitive Events Using fMRI

Dr. Joy Hirsch
Recorded: August 16, 2004 (93 minutes)

Sparks of Discovery: From Lab Bench to Patient's Bed...and Back Again

Drs. Stephan Mayer & Marek Mirski
Recorded: August 9, 2004 (99 minutes)

Poilly-le-Fort, May 1881. The Anthrax Experiments of Pasteur, Chamberland and Roux

Dr. Richard Kessin
Recorded: July 19, 2004 (55 minutes)

Living With Electromagnetic Fields. Are Cell Phones Safe?

Dr. Martin Blank
Recorded: July 19, 2004 (53 minutes)

Where Do New Infectious Diseases Come From?

Dr. Dickson Despommier Recorded: August 11, 2003 (85 minutes)

Paradigms Found & Paradigms Lost

Dr. Nicholas Turro
Recorded July 28, 2003 (71 minutes)

How Superman Sees the Stars

Dr. David Helfand
Recorded July 7, 2003 (70 minutes)

Stem Cells: Science, Policy, and Ethics

Dr. Gerald Fischbach
Recorded August 19, 2002 (90 minutes)

Bioterrorism: The Invisible Enemy

Dr. Phyllis Della-Latta
Recorded August 5, 2002 (67 minutes)

The Effects of Temperature on Respiration: What Can Biosphere 2 Teach Us About the Forests of New York and New Zealand?

Dr. Kevin Griffin
Recorded: July 29, 2002 (63 minutes)

Polar Bears Don't Play Nintendo: Enrichment Programs in Modern Zoos

Dr. Don Moore
Recorded: July 22, 2002 (62 minutes)

The West Nile Virus: Deja Vu All Over Again

Dr. Dickson Despommier
Recorded: July 8, 2002

Watching the Mind at Work

Dr. Joy Hirsch
Recorded: August 20, 2001 (72 minutes)

The West Nile Story

Dr. Dickson Despommier
Recorded: August 13, 2001 (78 minutes)

How Humans Defend Against Bacterial Infections

Dr. Samuel Silverstein
Recorded: July 30, 2001 (82 minutes)

Reflections on Dolphin Communication & Cognition

Dr. Diana Reiss
Recorded: July 16, 2001 (78 minutes)

How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Genome Project

Dr. Joel Buxbaum
Recorded: July 9, 2001 (84 minutes)

Symbiosis Ecology of Reef-Building Coral

Dr. Andrew Baker
Recorded: August 21, 2000 (67 minutes)

Viruses: Friend or Foe

Dr. Hamish Young
Recorded: August 14, 2000 (86 minutes)

Self Assembled Nano Scale Materials

Dr. Charles Michael Drain
Recorded: July 31, 2000 (67 minutes)

Gene Therapy

Dr. Ronald Crystal
Recorded: July 24, 2000 (66 minutes)

X-Ray Vision for the 21st Century,

Dr. David Helfand
Recorded: July 17, 2000 (77 minutes)

Beta Oxidation of Unsaturated Fatty Acids,

Dr. Horst Schulz
Recorded: July 10, 2000 (51 minutes)

The Science of Substance Abuse Treatment

Dr. Herbert Kleber
Recorded: August 16, 1999 (109 minutes)

The Cage Effect: From the Gas Phase to the Molecular Solvent Cage to the Supra Molecular Cage to the Super Duper Molecular Cage

Dr. Nicholas Turro
Recorded: August 2, 1999 (65 minutes)

The Genome Project

Dr. Isidore Edelman
Recorded: July 26, 1999 (71 minutes)

The World View From One Billionth of an Inch: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Molecular Adsorbates

Dr. George Flynn
Recorded: July 19, 1999 (65 minutes)

HLA: Autoimmunity in HIV

Dr. Ned Braunstein
Recorded: July 12, 1999 (75 minutes)

Astronaut Training

NASA Astronaut Fernando (Frank) Caldeiro
Recorded: August 18, 1998 (50 minutes)

How Trichinella Spiralis Makes Itself At Home

Dr. Dickson Despommier
Recorded: August 10, 1998

Synapse Formation in Developing Mouse Brain

Dr. Carol Mason Recorded: August 3, 1998

Antioxidants, Bioflavonoids, and Chalcones

Dr. Nanette Wachter-Jurcsak
Recorded: July 27, 1998 (81 minutes)

White Blood Cells: How They Travel and How They Eat

Dr. Samuel Silverstein
Recorded: July 20, 1998 (82 minutes)
NOTE: 1st 8 minutes audio loss

Electromagnetic Fields in the Environment: An Update

Dr. Martin Blank
Recorded: July 13, 1998

Disorders in Cell Circuitry in Human Cancer

Dr. I. Bernard Weinstein
Recorded: July 6, 1998 (76 minutes)

The Evolution of Galaxies in Different Environments

Dr. Jacqueline Van Gorkom
Recorded: August 11, 1997 (67 minutes)

Cytoskeletal Control of Intercellular Organelle Movement

Dr. Liza Pon
Recorded: August 4, 1997 (37 minutes)

The Second Brain

Dr. Michael Gershon
Recorded: July 21, 1997 (98 minutes)

The Tree as a Focal Point for Environmental Education

Dr. Dickson Despommier
Recorded: July 14, 1997 (93 minutes)

Understanding the Chemistry of Electronic Materials

Dr. Stacey Bent
Recorded: July 7, 1997 (55 minutes)

A New View of the Radio Universe

Dr. David Helfand Recorded: August 12, 1996 (81 minutes)

Using Computer Graphics to Study Protein Structure & Function

Dr. Barry Honig Recorded: July 29, 1996 (67 minutes)

Why Large Earthquakes Occur at Subduction Zones

Dr. Chris Scholz
Recorded: July 22, 1996

Generating Male and Female Brains

Dr. Darcy Kelley
Recorded: July 15, 1996 (81 minutes)

Repair of Double Strand Breaks in Mammalian Cell DNA

Dr. Hamisch Young
Recorded: August 7, 1995 (86 minutes)

Earthquakes Happen When Expected and Not Expected

Dr. Leonardo Seeber
Recorded: July 10, 1995 (108 minutes)

Parasite Control of Host Genomic Expression

Dr. Dickson Despommier
Recorded: August 15, 1994 (91 minutes)

Fifty Years of Protein Phosphorylation

Dr. David Brautigan
Recorded: July 25, 1994

Looking at Atoms & Molecules on the Surface of Materials

Dr. Brian Bent
Recorded: July 11, 1994 (42 minutes)

Diseases Associated With Mitochondria

Dr. Eric Schon
Recorded: August 12, 1993 (82 minutes)

Developmental Neurobiology

Dr. Carol Mason
Recorded: August 2, 1993