Radio Life Sciences Graduate School of Life Sciences of Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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RADIO LIFE SCIENCES – a podcast produced by the GSLS for the GSLS. LISTEN to Educators, Policy makers, Researchers, Fellow students and others share their perspectives. LEARN about the inner workings of the graduate school, educational opportunities and more. LEAD the conversation by brainstorming, deciding and producing the content on upcoming episodes
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Our Education | Lili’s Proto Lab; how to make your first prototype
Utrecht University already has a reputation as an institution with excellent theoretical courses, but did you know you can know also dabble in hardware prototyping in Lili’s Proto Lab? This new facility within the science faculty is promoting students, teachers and researchers to adopt a DIY approach and learn new design skills. Whether you want to create a hardware solution to aid your research, create an educational model to explain a concept or simply learn some digital design skills, Lili’s Proto Lab is there to lower the threshold and accelerate you along the learning curve. In this episode, Tessa Voerman interviews Josh Hauser and Edward Paddon on all opportunities “ Lili’s Proto Lab” has to offer.
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YoUUr Career | Life Sciences Career Week
In this episode of the YoUUr Career series of the Radio Life Sciences podcast, Eveline talks to Rianne, Yvette and Litske about their careers so far and they mention much interesting information about the upcoming Life Sciences Career Week. This week is organized by the GSLS from 27th of May until 31st of May.
Have a listen and hear about examples of interesting workshops during this week! For more information and registration for the Life Sciences Career Week, have a look at this website: https://students.uu.nl/en/events/life-sciences-career-week -
Our Research | Research in Jungle: French Guiana
Tessa Voerman continues exploring various aspects of conducting research in the jungle. In this second part, she discusses fieldwork in French Guiana with Martijn Ruisbroek and Wout Damen, two students from the Environmental Biology GSLS Master’s program. They share insights into the experience of working in the jungle, preparations one should make, and the biodiversity of the region.
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Our Research | Research in Jungle: Suriname
In today's episode, Tessa Voerman introduces a two-part series on the fascinating topic of 'Research in Jungle'. In this first part, she talks about fieldwork in Suriname with Ronja Knippers, a PhD Candidate focusing on Human-Wildlife Coexistence, and Julia Blok, a master’s student in the Ecology & Natural Resource Management track within the Environmental Biology Master’s program about their research interests and real life experiences doing their field work. They also give tips to those graduate students who are interested in doing similar research.
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Our Research | Navigating Translational Science in Academia
In today's episode, Anastasia talks to Farah Kools who is defending her PhD dissertation on translational science in April 2024. Farah's dissertation urges a reevaluation and
redesign of current academic reward systems, advocating for an approach that is more aligned with
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Our Education | History of Medicine course
In today's episode, Lisa will be talking to Christine Fox, the course coordinator for the History of Medicine course. This course is an interdisciplinary course that is available for both GSLS and History of Philosophy Science students. We'll discuss all ins and outs of the course, why it is important to bring scientists and historians together, and what you as a student can gain from following this course.
Interested in this course? Check out the Osiris description; https://shorturl.at/vDKQY