13 episodes
The (Un)Scientific Method The (Un)Scientific Method
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What is science? What do scientists do all day? Do they all wear lab coats? What if they study polar bears in the arctic? That sounds cold… We’ve all had these thoughts. Sometimes the world of scientific research seems like a giant black box. Let’s explore current research straight from mouths of the lab rats themselves.
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#12 Meet Your Hosts, Beth Castle and Sarah Dada
Meet your hosts, Beth and Sarah, on bioengineering and bioinformatics
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#11 The Effects of Hep C Stigma and Improving Patient-Physician Discussions with Nance Cunningham
Nance on Hep C, stigma, and improving our health care system
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#10 Physics, Psychology, and Movies with Conan Lee
Have you ever heard of edutainment? We bring in Master's student, Conan Lee, who studies how pop culture can be tied together with science. He also has his own YouTube: PhyPsyFilm that pieces out the science in popular films! Tune in to listen in on whether the physics of some movies hold up!
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#9 Geology, Biomonitoring, and Bees with Brooke Hoppstock-Mattson
Have you ever thought how the topics of geochemestry, human health, bees, and policy could all come into research? PhD student Brooke Hoppstock-Mattson explores and monitors the trace metals that makes it way into our environment by studying bees. Okay, she doesn't just get to work with bees, but she also works with salmon and whales-- how cool is that? Take a listen to learn more about how this kind of science helps us understand our environment!
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#8 Supercoiling, DNA, and Genes with Cindy Shaheen
We know that DNA carries the stuff that makes us, well, us! But what happens in supercoiled DNA? What does it even mean to be supercoiled? Does it change how our genes are expressed? Tune in to listen to PhD student, Cindy Shaheen, who's exploring supercoiling in DNA. With her interesting perspective from biology and physics, you'll be sure to learn a thing or two and maybe about how supercoiling might influence our genetics!
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#7 Evolution of Species, Genomics, and Birds with Libby Natola
Ever think about what makes animals so different from one another? Then zooming in even more, how do we think about differentiating animals within the same species, like the chipper little sap-suckers (a type of woodpecker!)? PhD student Libby Natola studies exactly this-- using genomics behaviour and the ecology of these birds, Libby explores how new species arise. Be sure to listen in on this headbanger of an episode!
You can also follow her on Instagram (@libbynat) and Twitter (@Sphyrapicolgy)!