BLab Coats

By Hamid Sediqi and Alex Wray

Blab Coats is a window into cutting edge academic research and the impact it has on the community. Every season we bring you stories that deal with community issues and how researchers are striving to... more

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The podcast currently has 87 episodes available.

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August 13, 2018 4.2 When Galaxies Collide - Prof Lisa Harvey-Smith
This week we visit the eery "Dome Floor" which houses the main telescope at the Western Sydney University Observatory in Werrington, west of Sydney. We had a fascinating talk with Lisa Harvey-Smith who is an astronomer, astrophysicist, science communicator and an athlete. She was also a host on ‘Stargazing’ with Brian Cox and was involved in the ‘Square Kilometre Array’. In this episodes we talk about her journey in sports and science, the challenges faced by women in STEM, Sci-com, and her book: ‘When Galaxies Collide. You can purchase her book from https://goo.gl/XxEmHc
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34min
July 31, 2018 4.1 Defeating Parasitic Fungi with Dr Michelle Moffitt
Parasitic fungi cost the agriculture industry vast amounts of money every year. Michelle is looking to fight fire with fire by using other fungi strains to defeat these parasitic fungi. In this episode, she talks to us about her journey in microbiology and mycology, the uniqueness of fungi, and more.
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46min
July 27, 2018 Season 4 BLab Coats coming soon...

Season 4 of BLab Coats is coming next week. We're excited to bring you some interesting conversations with philosophers, microbiologist, astrophysicists and more. You can find us on itunes, stictcher or whereever you get your podcast.
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June 27, 2018 #37 Understanding the History of Sexuality, Health, and Disease with Dr Alison Moore
Dr Alison Moore is a historian studying the history of sexuality, health, and disease. In this episode she talks to us about her journey into history and medical science, how marrying both has given her a better perspective of history. She also talked us about menopause and how the symptoms may be socially constructed, how sexuality and sexual perversion was linked to the evolution of civilizations, and more.
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54min
May 31, 2018 #36 Understanding animal stress with Dr Edward Narayan
Dr Narayan is a senior lecturer of Animal Sciences at the School of Science and Health at Western Sydney University. In this episode he talks to us about his research journey - from demonstrating, for the first time, that Fijian ground frogs lay eggs, to developing non-invasive tests for assessing stress in animals.
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55min
April 27, 2018 #35 Insider perspectives and fake news with Dr Tanya Notley
Five satanic rituals that Trump used to become president! Number 4 will shock you!!!! This week we chat to Dr Tanya Notley about the rise of fake news and her fascinating research journey from media and communications to ethnographer. We find out what ethnography is and understand the limitations of outsider perspectives.
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47min
April 09, 2018 #34 Seeing the world through Bioinspired cameras with Dr Greg Cohen
Dr Greg Cohen is a researcher at the MARCS institute developing Bio-inspired cameras. These cameras mimic how the human eye works by only detecting changes rather than taking a picture of the whole field of view. In this episode, Greg talks to us about the utility of his camera in astronomy, detecting space junk, medical science, etc. We also talk about evolution algorithms, AI, his ping pong robot, and more.
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1h 1min
March 20, 2018 #33 X-rays, Black holes and the lives of galaxies with Dr Elaina Hyde
Dr Elaina Hyde is an astronomer/astrophysicist by training and a data scientist by trade. She is also a Google Cloud engineering software instructor and works as a consultant at Servian. In this episode she tells us her journey into astronomy/astrophysics, and how her training led her to a consultancy job in data management. We also learn some cool things about black holes and lives of galaxies, things that science students should consider for the career, and more.
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55min
March 07, 2018 #32 Scientific Fortune in Prostate Cancer Research with Dr Kieran Scott

Dr Kieran Scott works at the Ingham Institute developing a cancer drug that targets inflammation as a means of treating prostate cancer. Kieran's currently at the clinical trial stage, testing his compound 'C2' on 12 participants. We talked to Kieran about the process of drug development for Prostate cancer, the luck involved in scientific research, as well as the often ill-considered aspects of conducting research.
Note: During the discussion of the Shine Dalgarna sequence in this conversation, Dr Scott mistakenly referred to ribosomes binding to DNA when he intended to say RNA. To clarify the error, the mechanism by which the Shine Dalgarno sequence serves to direct protein translation in bacteria is that the sequence, encoded in DNA prior to the translation start site of a gene is transcribed into mRNA. The ribosome recognises this site and so can initiate translation of the mRNA.
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February 21, 2018 #31 Programming Solutions with James Ferguson
James had an unconventional journey into Bioinformatics. He dropped out of university twice but managed to use his programming skills, that he had developed through his own initiative, in conjunction with his determination to eventually end up at the Garvan Institute as a Genomic Systems Analyst. In this episode we talked about Bioinformatics, what type of questions programmers can answer compared to pure biologist, the cutting edge technologies being developed at the Garvan, the education system, his world record, and more.
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1h 2min

FAQs about BLab Coats:

How many episodes does BLab Coats have?

The podcast currently has 87 episodes available.