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.

BLab Coats episodes:

February 06, 2018 #30 Neuromorphing with Prof André van Schaik
André van Schaik research focus involves: biolectronics, neuromorphic engineering, and neuroscience. Biology has solved many of the problems that engineers and programmers face, and by studying and building analogous André and his team hope to take advantage of this fact. In this episode, André tells us his journey: working for logic, his transition from pure engineering to physiology, deep learning, AI, ethics of AI, and more.
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59min
December 12, 2017 #29 Running an F1 Team with Blaze Racing

This week we talk to two F1 in schools teams from Girraween High School, Enzo Velocita and Blaze Racing. F1 in schools is a fantastic worldwide, multidisciplinary program run by Formula 1 to develop marketing, design, communication, engineering and team work skills in high school age children. Blaze Racing are set to compete in Australia's national competition held in Tasmania next March.
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December 04, 2017 #28 Probing Brain Chemistry with Dr Rose Chesworth

Dr Rose Chesworth is a neuroscientist studying gene-environment interactions in the context of Schizophrenia and drug addiction. In this episode we talk about how drug addiction works and her research in mitigating it, her research into Schizophrenia, why rock stars overdose in hotels and more.

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November 27, 2017 #27 Communicating Science with Dr Karl

Dr Karl BLabbed with us about his journey into science communication, why it's important for the future, why people believe in false things, and how he's managed to live so many different lives. Check out the video: https://youtu.be/8GATrcfU5nY
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30min
November 23, 2017 #26 Understanding Adaptation with Alexie Papanicolaou
Alexie is bioinformatician at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment working one ecological and economical important species. In this episode, we spoke about how species become what they become. This was an interesting conversation dealing with science and politics.
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1h 21min
November 14, 2017 #25 Investigating Insects with Jon
Jon Finch is the 3MT winner at WSU. He's a PhD candidate who loves and researches insects. In this episode we discuss where this fascination came from, the importance of insects, his early research where he had to catch seabirds committing "adultery", and more.
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November 09, 2017 #24 Screening Populations with Dr Kate McBride
Dr Kate McBride is a epidemiologist who has dedicated her life to improving public health through prevention and reduction of chronic diseases. In this episode we talk about her journey from anthropology into epidemiology, her research, research interests, the importance of giving back to society, and more.
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57min
November 01, 2017 BLab Coats Episode #23
What is art? How are science and art intertwined? How are they different? We tackle these topics following our chat with PhD candidate Gareth Hearne.
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October 30, 2017 #23 Harmonising Emotion and Microtones with Gareth
Gareth was initially fascinated by physics and maths. He later discovered his passion for music and consequently applied his maths and physics skills to do a Phd involving music and psychology. In this episode, we talked about the origins of western chromatic musical scale, the Pythagoras cult, what singers manipulate to have a beautiful voice, etc.
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59min
October 26, 2017 BLab Coats Episode #22
What's the go with Vegemite? Can we trust scientific models? We chat after our interview with Dr Patrice Castignolles.
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FAQs about BLab Coats:

How many episodes does BLab Coats have?

The podcast currently has 87 episodes available.