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Artem is an international student in the McCormick lab in the department of Microbiology. In this episode we talk about his motivations for getting into the field of microbiology as well as discussing his experience escaping the war in Ukraine and moving to Canada.

Nick Murray is currently a Masters Student in the Department of Psychiatry in the faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University. In this episode we discuss his experience with transitioning from undergrad to grad school and how his daily routine has changed. We talk about out the types of skills that we've found useful in our degree's and how they've allowed us to be better students and researchers.

Masoud is currently doing his Postdoc in geophysics here at Dalhousie University.  In the episode, we focus on the work he does more specifically with his start, which incorporates aspects of machine learning for sedimentary analysis with real-world applications, such as ocean and mining exploration.

Jee is currently in her interdisciplinary PhD at Dalhousie, which has her research focusing on antimicrobial resistance. We discuss the nature of her work, which includes techniques in machine learning applied to bioinformatics to understand the genome of the microbes of concern in microbial resistance to antibiotics. We also talk about some the current struggles grad students face today.

Mayank is a 3rd year double major in Neuroscience and Computer Science at Dalhousie University. In this episode, we talk in-depth about the research labs he’s been involved with at Dalhousie University, Google Developers Student Club and Neuromilia - an Aphasia focused startup. To learn more, listen to this episode to know how he integrates his passions in Neuroscience and Computer Science as an undergraduate student.



You can follow Mayank at @mayank.ramchandani1

Valentina is a 4th year marine biology major an Dalhousie University. In this episode we talk about her interests in bioacoustics and the lab work she has done that relates to it. We also talk about some of the struggles that come with taking on an honours thesis and her plans going forward looking at marine management.