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Neuronline/SfN, 4.7.23
BrainFacts/SfN, 4.06.23
The Scientist (Scientist to Watch), 10.01.21
Smithsonian Magazine, 4.23.21
Columbia Irving Medical Center, 2.5.21
The New York Times, 10.30.20
Discover Magazine, 11.30.15
The Scientist, 12.1.20
Cell Press, 6.19.20
National Geographic, 4.15.15
Refinery29, 5.8.2020
NIH Director’s Blog, 8.25.15
Scientists Tried to Break Cuddling. Instead, They Broke 30 Years of Research
The Atlantic, 1.27.23
Be bolder and dream bigger: Bianca Jones Marlin and the study of inherited trauma
Abcam x The Guardian, 1.9.23
Medical News Today, 8.17.22
Neuroscientist Marlin explores how trauma can impact brain structures of future offspring
The Chautauquan Daily, 8.19.21
The Washington Post, 7.19.21
National Geographic, 5.9.18
Neuron, 11.3.21
The Washington Post, 5.14.20
Los Angeles Times, 4.15.15
Science Friday, 2020
Society for Neuroscience, 2020
The Guardian, 4.15.15
Simons Foundation, 11.30.18
Popular Science, 10.21.20
Videos & Media
Scientists Discuss Epigenetics & Generational Trauma
(StarTalk, 2024)
Your Brain: Who's In Control
(PBS Nova, 2023)
Dr. Marlin discusses the lab's research on transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, and how experiences in one generation can have a lasting impact on biology and cognition.
How Trauma Affects the Brain
(Therapy for Black Girls, 2023)
Dr. Marlin explains how traumatic experiences of our parents, grandparents and other ancestors can be passed down.
Bianca Jones Marlin: Preparing Kids for Survival (Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda, 2022)
How is it that the experience of stress or trauma can be passed on from one generation to the next, even without contact between them?
Why Viral Death-Defying Videos Make You Wince (The Wall Street Journal, 2022)
Dr. Marlin weighs in on how human empathy makes us wince at highly emotional viral videos.
The Impacts of Trauma on Mental Health (The Agenda with Steve Paikin, February, 2021)
Is mental illness hereditary? Should more consideration be given to the kinds of traumatic, negative experiences from a person's past that may have led to poor mental health? An esteemed panel discusses this evolutionary development.
Becoming Mom: Stories About Wanting to Mother (The Story Collider, 2020)
Breakthrough: The Trauma Tracer (Science Friday, 2020)
Dr. Marlin shares the inspirations behind her science and the benefits that could be harnessed through transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.
An Open Message to All Black Academics Video originally posted on May 30, 2020; re-uploaded June 3, 2021.
Dr. Marlin shares her reactions to the murder of George Floyd.
SciCafe: The Science of Love (The American Museum of Natural History’s SciCafe Speaker Series, 2019)
Dr. Marlin talks about how her research aims to bridge the gap between nature and nurture, specifically through how mothers interact and connect with their offspring.
Pregnancy: Stories about the Science of Having a Baby (The Story Collider, 2018)
What’s On Your Mind: Explaining Love and Emotions (FOX5, 2018)
Dr. Marlin joins FOX5 for Brain Awareness Week to answer viewers’ questions about what happens to the brain when we fall in love.
