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BLab Coats episodes

  • #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.
    1 hr 1 min
  • #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.
    55 min
  • #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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  • #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.
    1 hr 2 min
  • #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.
    59 min
  • #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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  • #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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  • #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

    30 min
  • #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.
    1 hr 21 min
  • #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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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…