Media and Art
This a list of media coverage events, interviews, performances and other
Article in MIT News: “Brandon Ogbunu is a radical collaborator”
(January 2023)
Podcast interview: Attribution by CBS
(December 2022)
Podcast interview: Complexity by Santa Fe Institute
(April 2022)
Quoted in The Atlantic Monthly
“America Is Staring Down Its First So What? Wave”
(April 2022)
Quoted in The Atlantic Monthly
“Why No One Is Sure If Delta Is Deadlier”
(June 2021)
Quoted in Axios
“Wanted: More scientists of color for better science”
(July 2020)
Featured on Radiolab (WNYC): “The Liberation of RNA”
(June 2020)
Interview with WPSU ‘Take note”
(June 2020)
Quoted in The New York Times
“Another ‘Unfounded’ Study on Origins of Virus Spreads Online.”
(October 2020)
Quoted in The New York Times
“You Probably Won’t Catch the Coronavirus From Frozen Food.”
(August 2020)
Quoted in Axios
“The confounding range of COVID-19 symptoms”
(July 2020)
Quoted in Vox
“Florida now has more Covid-19 cases than any other state. Here’s what went wrong.”
(July 2020)
Quoted in The New York Times
“U.S. Coronavirus Cases Are Rising Sharply, but Deaths Are Still Down.”
(July 2020)
Quoted in The New York Times
“As Some Sleepaway Summer Camps Close Down, Others Balance the Risks.”
(June 2020)
Interview on “the Glenn Show” (Bloggingheads.tv)
(May 2020)
Quoted in Smithsonian Magazine
“What Scientists Know about Immunity to the Novel Coronavirus”
(March 2020)
Educational videos on COVID-19 w/ Pleuni Pennings & Senay Yitbarek
1) How does SARS-CoV-2 spread?
2) The new coronavirus in numbers: case fatality rate, basic reproduction number, and interventions
(March 2020)
Quoted in Smithsonian Magazine
“Why Warmer Weather Probably Won’t Stop Covid-19”
(March 2020)
Quoted in Bloomberg Businessweek
“The Lasting Toll of a Deadly Virus”
(February 2020)
Quoted in Bloomberg Businessweek
“The Global Battle to Force the Coronavirus Below Its Tipping Point”
(January 2020)
Society for the Study of Evolution Featured Faculty
(June 2019)
Featured on the Emmy Award-winning educational web docu-series: PBS’s Finding Your Roots — The Seedlings (September 2017)
Interview on Important, Not Important Podcast: Are we talking about CRISPR all wrong?
(January 2019)