Videotaped Lectures

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

Right-click the microphone icon next to available lectures to download in mp3 format.


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.

  1. Atmospheric Particles, Clouds, & Climate
    Dr. V. Faye McNeill
    Recorded August 19, 2009 (53 minutes)
    Presentation Slides (PDF)
  2. Urban Agriculture
    Dr. Dickson Despommier
    Recorded: July 20, 2009 (54 minutes)
  3. Influenza
    Dr. Peter Palese
    Recorded: July 13, 2009 (45 minutes)
  4. Cost of Health-Associated Infections
    Dr. Sherry Glied
    Recorded: July 6, 2009 (53 minutes)
  5. C. Elegans as a Model for Neural Development,
     Dr. Oliver Hobert
    Recorded: August 18, 2008 (39 minutes)
  6. Global Warming: What We Know and What We Don't Know
    Dr. David Helfand
    Recorded: July 28, 2008 (57 minutes)
  7. Scavenging for Dead Stars: Neutron Stars and White Dwarfs
     Dr. Marcel Agueros
    Recorded: July 21, 2008 (31 minutes)
  8. Urban Sustainable Agriculture: Why We Should Grow
    Our Food in Tall Buildings
    Dr. Dickson Despommier
    Recorded: July 7, 2008 (50 minutes)
  9. Feeding the Next 2.6 Billion People
     Dr. Dickson Despommier
     Recorded: August 20, 2007 (55 minutes)
  10. Exploring Antarctica: Then and Now (1966-2006)
    Dr. Samuel C. Silverstein
     Recorded: August 6, 2007 (65 minutes)
  11. Preparing for Megadisastors: Why the U.S. Remains
    Unprepared & What Can Be Done Now
    Dr. Irwin Redlener
    Recorded July 16, 2007 (79 minutes)
  12. Climate Change: State of the Science
    Dr. Radley Horton
    Recorded: July 9, 2007 (52 minutes)
  13. Drug du Jour: A Tool for Teaching Critical Thinking
    Dr. Carl Hart
     Recorded: August 21, 2006 (52 minutes)
  14. Urban Sustainability: From Cradle to Grave
    Dr. Dickson Despommier
    Recorded: August 7, 2006 (73 minutes)
  15. How Your Brain Works.....or NOT!
    Dr. Darcy Kelley
    Recorded: July 31, 2006 (47 minutes)
  16. Exploring Antarctica's Highest Peaks
    Dr. Samuel C. Silverstein
    Recorded: July 17, 2006 (54 minutes)
  17. The Evolving Avian Flu Story,
    Dr. Ralph Richart
    Recorded: July 10, 2006 (69 minutes)
  18. Human Population
     Dr. John Bongaart
    Recorded: August 22, 2005
  19. Vertical Farming
    Dr. Dickson Despommier
    Recorded: August 15, 2005 (57 minutes)
  20. Bioterrorism and Emerging Infections
    Dr. Ian Lipkin
    Recorded: August 1, 2005 (81 minutes)
  21. Historical Research on Individual and Group
    Decision Making in Grasslands Agriculture
    Sabine Marx & Roberta Balstad
     Recorded: August 1, 2005 (73 minutes)
  22. Understanding Cognitive Events Using fMRI
    Dr. Joy Hirsch
    Recorded: August 16, 2004 (93 minutes)
  23. Sparks of Discovery: From Lab Bench to
    Patient's Bed...and Back Again
    Drs. Stephan Mayer & Marek Mirski
    Recorded: August 9, 2004 (99 minutes)
  24. Poilly-le-Fort, May 1881. The Anthrax Experiments
    of Pasteur, Chamberland and Roux
    Dr. Richard Kessin
    Recorded: July 19, 2004 (55 minutes)
  25. Living With Electromagnetic Fields. Are Cell Phones Safe?
    Dr. Martin Blank
    Recorded: July 19, 2004 (53 minutes)
  26. Where Do New Infectious Diseases Come From?
    Dr. Dickson Despommier
    Recorded: August 11, 2003 (85 minutes)
  27. Paradigms Found & Paradigms Lost
    Dr. Nicholas Turro
     Recorded July 28, 2003 (71 minutes)
  28. How Superman Sees the Stars
    Dr. David Helfand
    Recorded July 7, 2003 (70 minutes)
  29. Stem Cells: Science, Policy, and Ethics
    Dr. Gerald Fischbach
    Recorded August 19, 2002 (90 minutes)
  30. Bioterrorism: The Invisible Enemy
    Dr. Phyllis Della-Latta
    Recorded August 5, 2002 (67 minutes)
  31. 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)
  32. Polar Bears Don't Play Nintendo: Enrichment Programs
    in Modern Zoos
    Dr. Don Moore
    Recorded: July 22, 2002 (62 minutes)
  33. The West Nile Virus: Deja Vu All Over Again
    Dr. Dickson Despommier -
    Recorded: July 8, 2002
  34. Watching the Mind at Work
    Dr. Joy Hirsch
    Recorded: August 20, 2001 (72 minutes)
  35. The West Nile Story
    Dr. Dickson Despommier
    Recorded: August 13, 2001 (78 minutes)
  36. How Humans Defend Against Bacterial Infections
    Dr. Samuel Silverstein
    Recorded: July 30, 2001 (82 minutes)
  37. Reflections on Dolphin Communication & Cognition
    Dr. Diana Reiss
    Recorded: July 16, 2001 (78 minutes)
  38. How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the
    Genome Project
    Dr. Joel Buxbaum
    Recorded: July 9, 2001 (84 minutes)
  39. Symbiosis Ecology of Reef-Building Coral
    Dr. Andrew Baker
    Recorded: August 21, 2000 (67 minutes)
  40. Viruses: Friend or Foe
    Dr. Hamish Young
    Recorded: August 14, 2000 (86 minutes)
  41. Self Assembled Nano Scale Materials
    Dr. Charles Michael Drain
     Recorded: July 31, 2000 (67 minutes)
  42. Gene Therapy
    Dr. Ronald Crystal
     Recorded: July 24, 2000 (66 minutes)
  43. X-Ray Vision for the 21st Century,
    Dr. David Helfand
     Recorded: July 17, 2000 (77 minutes)
  44. Beta Oxidation of Unsaturated Fatty Acids,
    Dr. Horst Schulz
     Recorded: July 10, 2000 (51 minutes)
  45. The Science of Substance Abuse Treatment
    Dr. Herbert Kleber
     Recorded: August 16, 1999 (109 minutes)
  46. 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)
  47. The Genome Project
    Dr. Isidore Edelman
    Recorded: July 26, 1999 (71 minutes)
  48. The World View From One Billionth of an Inch:
    Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Molecular Adsorbates
    Dr. George Flynn
    Recorded: July 19, 1999 (65 minutes)
  49. HLA: Autoimmunity in HIV
    Dr. Ned Braunstein
    Recorded: July 12, 1999 (75 minutes)
  50. Astronaut Training
    NASA Astronaut Fernando (Frank) Caldeiro
     Recorded: August 18, 1998 (50 minutes)
  51. How Trichinella Spiralis Makes Itself At Home
    Dr. Dickson Despommier
     Recorded: August 10, 1998
  52. Synapse Formation in Developing Mouse Brain
    Dr. Carol Mason
    Recorded: August 3, 1998
  53. Antioxidants, Bioflavonoids, and Chalcones
    Dr. Nanette Wachter-Jurcsak
    Recorded: July 27, 1998 (81 minutes)
  54. 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
  55. Electromagnetic Fields in the Environment: An Update
    Dr. Martin Blank
    Recorded: July 13, 1998
  56. Disorders in Cell Circuitry in Human Cancer
    Dr. I. Bernard Weinstein-
    Recorded: July 6, 1998 (76 minutes)
  57. The Evolution of Galaxies in Different Environments
    Dr. Jacqueline Van Gorkom
    Recorded: August 11,   1997 (67 minutes)
  58. Cytoskeletal Control of Intercellular Organelle Movement
    Dr. Liza Pon
    Recorded: August 4, 1997 (37 minutes)
  59. The Second Brain
    Dr. Michael Gershon
    Recorded: July 21, 1997 (98 minutes)
  60. The Tree as a Focal Point for Environmental Education
    Dr. Dickson Despommier
    Recorded: July 14, 1997 (93 minutes)
  61. Understanding the Chemistry of Electronic Materials
    Dr. Stacey Bent
    Recorded: July 7, 1997 (55 minutes)
  62. A New View of the Radio Universe
    Dr. David Helfand
    Recorded: August 12, 1996 (81 minutes)
  63. Using Computer Graphics to Study Protein Structure & Function
    Dr. Barry Honig
    Recorded: July 29, 1996 (67 minutes)
  64. Why Large Earthquakes Occur at Subduction Zones
    Dr. Chris Scholz
    Recorded: July 22, 1996
  65. Generating Male and Female Brains
    Dr. Darcy Kelley
    Recorded: July 15, 1996 (81 minutes)
  66. Repair of Double Strand Breaks in Mammalian Cell DNA
    Dr. Hamisch Young
    Recorded: August 7, 1995 (86 minutes)
  67. Earthquakes Happen When Expected and Not Expected
    Dr. Leonardo Seeber
    Recorded: July 10, 1995 (108 minutes)
  68. Parasite Control of Host Genomic Expression
    Dr. Dickson Despommier
    Recorded: August 15, 1994 (91 minutes)
  69. Fifty Years of Protein Phosphorylation
    Dr. David Brautigan
    Recorded: July 25, 1994
  70. Looking at Atoms & Molecules on the Surface of Materials
    Dr. Brian Bent
    Recorded: July 11, 1994 (42 minutes)
  71. Diseases Associated With Mitochondria
    Dr. Eric Schon
    Recorded: August 12, 1993 (82 minutes)
  72. Developmental Neurobiology
    Dr. Carol Mason
    Recorded: August 2, 1993