Oliver Bogler: Expanding the teaching of Scientific Creativity
Oliver Bogler shared on LinkedIn:
“Creativity is often thought if as an innate characteristic, particularly in science. However, the evidence shows that it can be nurtured and strengthened, and one approach is the teaching of Night Science, championed by Dr. Itai Yanai and Dr. Martin Lercher – you may recall that we had them as guests on our podcast, Inside Cancer Careers a few weeks ago.
Together with colleagues representing many different domains of science, Itai and Martin have just published a letter in Science advocating for expanding the teaching of scientific creativity – check it out here.
As it happens I just finished teaching the Night Science course that Itai and Martin developed and have so generously shared at night-science.org, here in the NCI’s Intramural Research Program, and really enjoyed the experience. I got great feedback from the dozen postdoctoral scholars who participated, and will be offering it again soon.
If you are interested, please reach out! We are starting a movement!”
Teach creativity in science higher education
Authors: Itai Yanai , Oliver Bogler, Sean B. Carroll, Jennifer Couch, Maria Lund Dahlberg, Cynthia N. Fuhrmann, James C. Kaufman, Sonali Majumdar, Jennifer Oyler-Yaniv, Rodney D. Priestley, Tim Stearns, Bodo Stern, Valda Vinson, Keith R. Yamamoto, and Martin J. Lercher
Source: Oliver Bogler/LinkedIn
Oliver Bogler is the Director of the Center for Cancer Training and the Host of Inside Cancer Careers podcast at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). He has held significant positions at institutions like MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he led Global Academic Programs and served as Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs.
Bogler’s work focuses on building collaborative networks and advancing education, particularly for underserved communities. His career spans extensive research on brain tumors, academic leadership, and initiatives to democratize expert knowledge through projects like Project ECHO at the University of New Mexico.
Itai Yanai is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at NYU Langone Health. Previously he served as the Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Israel Institute of Technology. He was also a research assistant at Pasteur Institute.
Martin Lercher is a professor of computational cell biology at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. His areas of interest in research are molecular organization and evolution of cellular systems, in particular metabolism. He is also a co-host of the Night Science Podcast.