Lab Talk with Laura

Lab Talk with Laura

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A weekly radio show where Laura Fattaruso and a local comic interview STEM researchers at UMass Amherst. Fun, casual, informative! Online hosting supported by the Emrick Polymer Science Lab at UMass. Laura's research and outreach are funded by the National Science Foundation.

21.06.2023

Ep. 36 - Ángel, David, and Sean

Started in 2013, the GSA On To the Future program supports student participation in the annual GSA Connects meeting by providing financial support to attend the meeting, waiving registration fees, and providing mentorship and specialized programming with GSA leadership. Ten years after the program was started, I spoke with two On To the Future alumni who have become leaders within the geoscience community. Dr. Ángel García Jr. is the current chair of GSA’s Diversity in Geosciences Committee until June 30, when David Davis will take over as chair for the next year. In this podcast, they speak about their research, their first time attending the GSA Connects meeting as On To the Future scholars, and their visions for how to enact ongoing change and progress in the geoscience community. Comedian Sean Calhoun joins as co-host. This episode was produced by Laura Fattaruso as part of the Geological Society of America Science Communication Fellowship. Full transcript: https://tinyurl.com/gsaotf

1 Std. 21 Min.
08.09.2022

Ep. 35 - The Second National Conference on Justice in Geoscience

Interviews from the Second National Conference for Justice in Geoscience. I talk to the organizers of the conference, Dr. Benjamin Keisling, Dr. Raquel Bryant, and Dr. Rachel Bernard, as well as Geological Society of America President Dr. Mark Little, and geophysicist Dr. Edith Davis. ---- FULL TRANSCRIPT available at https://bit.ly/3DaTNvf

1 Std. 17 Min.
21.02.2022

How proteins in the brain can retain memories - a clip from ep. 17

Emily Agnello explains the lab procedures used to study CaMKII, a protein in your brain that helps create and store memories. In order of appearance: Laura Fattaruso, Emily Agnello, Laura Patrick, Meg Stratton.

4 Min.
21.02.2022

What tiny fossils tell us about past oceans - clip from Ep. 12

In this clip from episode 12, Raquel Bryant explains how small fossil shells called foraminifera can be used to understand 90 million year old oceans.

2 Min.
07.04.2020

Ep. 34 - COVID-19 testing explained by Anna Minkina

On this episode I chat on the phone with Anna Minkina, a PhD student in Genomics at University of Washington in Seattle. Anna explains the methods underlying COVID-19 testing and how understanding the method can help us understand the delays to widespread testing in the US. We also chat about her work in genomics-- tracking the lineage of cells. Check out her article on Medium that inspired our conversation: https://elemental.medium.com/the-science-behind-coronavirus-testing-and-where-the-u-s-went-wrong-7920c3fb5049

43 Min.
05.02.2020

Ep. 33 - STEMSEAS - Emma, Alhasan, Michael, Raquel, and Benjamin

On this episode we talk to alumni of the STEMSEAS program(Student Experiences Aboard Ships) started by Sharon Cooper and Jon Lewis. I'm joined in the studio by Emma Robertson, a UMass undergrad who sailed last summer from Woods Hole, MA to Reykjavik, Iceland. Also in the studio are Raquel Bryant and Benjamin Keisling, UMass Geoscience graduate students who have both served as mentors on STEMSEAS cruises. We also hear interviews from Alhasan Alshaarbaf of the University of St. Thomas, and Michael Martins of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Visit the STEMSEAS website to learn more and apply: http://mlp.ldeo.columbia.edu/stemseas/

1 Std.
24.10.2019

Ep. 32 - Marsha, Mimi, and Kim

This episode is all about water! We are joined by Marsha Allen from Geosciences and Mimi Alkattan from Civil and Environmental Engineering. Marsha explains her work studying storage and movement of water in the fractured bedrock of the island of Tobago, in order to plan for sustainable water pumping that considers future impacts from climate change. Mimi describes her work studying drinking water quality. Many places in the world with limited water supplies only deliver water to residents at certain times, but the water systems are designed for continuous flow-- she looks into the impacts of these intermittent water supplies on water quality. Local comedian Kim DeShields (aka Boney) joins as co-host.

1 Std. 11 Min.
02.10.2019

Ep. 31 - Tricia, Suzanne, and Ang

Dr. Tricia Serio (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UMass Amherst) and Dr. Suzanne Sindi (Applied Mathematics at UC Merced) explain their collaborative research into prion diseases using lab experiments with yeast colonies and mathematical simulations. They explain how prion diseases form and are transmitted, why they are incurable, and how their work aims to tackle that problem. They also talk about their unique collaboration as a biologist and mathematician and how these two fields have come together in recent decades. Comedian and teacher Ang Buxton joins as co-host.

59 Min.

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A weekly radio show where Laura Fattaruso and a local comic interview STEM researchers at UMass Amherst. Fun, casual, informative! Online hosting supported by the Emrick Polymer Science Lab at UMass. Laura's research and outreach are funded by the National Science Foundation.

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