Einstein A Go-Go

In the studio this week are Drs Ailie, Ray, Linden and Shane who discuss what's been in the news:

Dr Shane Thomas Huntington OAM!!!!

Research on the Thwaites Glacier has been found to be melting both above and below faster than first thought, A new form of the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) has been discovered (by citizen science) called the Dunes, Machine learning is being used for measuring crystal contents and NASA Spitzer space telescope has come to the end of it's life (having been designed to run from 2003 to 2009).

Today's first guest (in the studio) Lauren Young, from Centre for Human Psychopharmacology, Swinburne University of Technology talks about her study on dementia and mood disorders and diet.

Today's second guest (in the studio) Dr Laura Bird, from the Florey Institute talks about music training and brain injury.

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In the studio this week are Drs Euan, Linden and Shane and KrisKP who are talking to 20 (or 22) PhD students in the studio about their work:

Group 1:

Akhil from RMIT - implants;

Steph from Monash - sustainable hospital food systems;

Catriona from Peter Doherty - hipster immune cells;

Lauren from Swinburne - dietary research;

Maddy from Hudson Institute - salmonella infection host cell death pathways;

Lauren from Monash - public healt researcher;

Nicole from Doherty Institute - secretion systems during infections;

Group 2:

Ellen from Hudson Institute - epigenetic marks in eggs;

Laura from Florey Institute - music training and protecting congnitive function;

Jenn from Western Sydney Uni - how do lactation support specialists do what they do;

Nahwal (?) from ? - skin to skin contact;

Dinah from La Trobe Uni - age related changes and congnitive processing;

Enke from Hudson Institute - automation in cell therapy manufacturing;

Cameron from Murdoch Research Institute - mitochondrial disease research;

Group 3:

Samantha from Monash - how drugs can be designed following a heart attack;

Jordan from La Trobe - what the immune system has to do with high bloody pressure;

Stephany from La Trobe - bacterial infection in dogs and bacteriaphages;

Vivian from La Trobe - vascular disfunction in metabolic syndrome;

Elena from Monash - inflamatory arthritis treatment;

Anandita from Monash - rock fractures;

Kimberley from Melbourne Uni - atmospheric rivers;

Devolina from RMIT - vaccines in chickens.

The team then dug further into both Kimberley and Stephany's research.

News:

Traffic jams and ants, Cimon 2 on the space station and breeding mice with hyperlong telomeres.

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Dr Shane, Dr Linden, Dr Laura and Dr Ray bring you the week’s hottest science, including a new acoustic observatory, taking the pulse of a blue whale, and training E. coli to eat CO2.

They talk to Carra Simpson, PhD Candidate at the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne, about the high rates of co-occurence between mental health and gastrointestinal disorders.

They interview Narelle Keating, PhD Candidate at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, about her work investigating Interferon and its use in helping our immune systems.

Finally, they chat with Georgia Atkin-Smith, postdoc researcher at the La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science at La Trobe University, about a protein that is responsible for coordinating cell death.

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Einstein A Go Go - Sunday 24th November 2019

Dr Krystal, Dr Laura, Dr Ray and Dr Shane.

Science news: DNA methylation of dogs to determine age, VR, The Mars Sample Return Project

First Guest: Dr Srikanth Venkatesan Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering RMIT, “1.3 million cups of coffee drunk daily in Australia turned into concrete used in homes, driveways or office buildings”. MORE HERE

Second and third Guests: Dr Diana Hansen and Dr Ann Ly WAEI. “Malaria discovery could lead to better HIV and lupus treatments. A discovery about how the immune system responds to malaria infection could lead to better treatments for hepatitis C, HIV and lupus, say Melbourne researchers.” MORE HERE

Fourth Guest: Dr Sarah Best WAEI, Non small cell lung cancer. MORE HERE

Congratulations to Dr Laura recently listed as on of the highest citing researchers in Australia. 7th in the field of Immunology.

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Dr Shane, Dr Lauren & Dr Euan

It's a busy week in the studio this week with the EAGG team being joined by no less than 4 guests this week.

The regular Einstein doctors and special guests discuss a range of topics in the studio this week ranging from; Healthy & Unhealthy bacteria, microbiology, nano particles, Vaccinations, the Mountain Pigmy possum and climate change specifically focusing on the all too familiar most recent bushfires here in Australia.

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Dr Shane, Dr Euan, Dr Jen and Chris KP discuss the symbiotic association between fungi and plants; effects of screen time on children; ice surface structure and the effect of airline travel on the climate.

First guest: Dr Tiffany Howell, Latrobe University, talks about her study into the use of dogs to treat PTSD. Volunteer, Angela De Cata and the assistance dog Heidi are also in the studio for this discussion.

Second guest: Kate Birch, Data and technology manager, Melbourne Genomics, joins the discussion with guest Jillian Hasting Ward to discuss Jillian’s son’s medical condition and the use of Genomic medicine as a diagnostic tool to discover Sam’s ultra-rare condition.

Dr Linden and Dr Ray join Dr Shane in the studio.

In news: Predicting Australian summers from the polar vortex above Antartica; Measuring lateral lightning strikes; Gravitational micro-lensing.

First guest is Associate Professor Melinda T. Coughlan, JDRF Clinical Research Network Career Development Fellow from Monash University.
Diabetes is a growing global health burden, with 422 million adults – or one in 11 people – diagnosed with the disease. A new discovery has the potential to slow the progression of kidney disease in people with diabetes. Normal function of the mitochondria within the kidney – known as the “batteries of the cell” – don’t work properly in people with diabetes. The drug that has already been tested on other inflammatory diseases can decrease kidney injury caused by diabetes.

Second guest is Dr Francine Marques, Head of the Hypertension Research Laboratory from the School of Biological Sciences, Monash University.
It is well known that our diet influences the risk of high blood pressure. While salt intake is associated with higher blood pressure, consumption of fruit, vegetables and other food rich in fibre is usually associated with lower blood pressure. New evidence from our laboratory has emerged that this may be due to the tiny microorganisms that live in our gut, called gut microbes. Dr Marques’ animal research a few years ago showed that a diet high in fibre prevents the development of high blood pressure and heart disease via the gut microbiota, who digest the fibre (that’s indigestible to humans) for us and as consequence release metabolites called short-chain fatty acids. The purpose of this research is to determine if dietary supplements which produce high levels of substances produced as a result of microbial fermentation could be used as a new strategy to lower blood pressure.

Einstein A Go Go – 27th October 2019

Dr Krystal, Dr Ray & Dr Shane

Science News: Earthworm biodiversity, rats racing cars, scrutinising research funding.

First guest: Dr Christine Keenan, WEHI. Researchers have discovered a potential new treatment for asthma that works by targeting the cause of the disease, rather than just masking the symptoms.

Second guests: Caitlin Doogan MDataSci, BSc (Hons), BBiomedSc. Center for Data Science Center for Organisational and Social Informatics Monash University School of Information Technology and

Machine learning and Ai, adaptive modelling, representing or translating into numbers, creating open data and algorithms, data auditing and creating warning flags for possible errors.

Wray Buntine, Group lead of Machine Learning at Monash, Monash University School of Information Technology. Machine learning for Health, developing a land use map, taking ambulance data and feeding it into government policy.

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Dr Shane, Dr Lauren and Linden bring you stories about why cartilage at extremities heal more quickly, how to make cows less attractive to flies.

They interview Richard Fuller OAM, president of Pure Earth and chairman of the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution, about his work raising awareness of the issues of pollution and its impact on health; in particular the effects of lead pollution.

They also chat with Dr Yasmin Jayasinghe (MBBS, FRANZCOG, PhD), a Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecologist with the Department of Gynaecology at the Royal Children’s Hospital, about the effect of cancer treatment on women’s fertility.

Finally, they talk with Stacey Rowe, an infectious diseases epidemiologists at the State Government Department of Health and Human Services and a PhD candidate at Monash University, about her work monitoring cases of infectious diseases in Victoria.

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In the studio this week are Drs Shane and Linden and Chris KP who discuss what's been in the news:

Dog ownership officially linked to longer life; Paleolithic people kept and preserved deer bone marrow; and The James Webb telescope will be able to see into the centre of our galaxy (and the black hole there).

Today's first guest Blake Orr, Senior Scientist at ARPANSA (in the studio) talks his work and Fukushima.

Today's second guest Megan Cook, Science officer at ARPANSA (in the studio) talks hot particles and radiation monitoring.

Chris KP talks about a free public forum called "Adolescents: Investing in future generations." To register for free tickets: http://future-gen.com.au/

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