Einstein A Go-Go

Dr Shane, Dr Euan and Dr Jen discuss male parenting, narwhals, climate change, tickling and the invention of the foil electret microphone.

Dr Sahane and Dr Ailie in the studio this week. First guest is Dr Andrew Langendam from the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment at Monash University. Andrew studies the birth and evolution of planets. His research compares how planets formed with and without ice. Planets closer to the Sun were unable to incorporate much ice but planets and moons that formed further out were able to incorporate water, CO2 and other ices, significantly changing their chemistry. This means that they could potentially be good candidates for the search for life. Next guests are Sanja Van Huet and Rebecca Ballard from Deakin University. Sanja is palaeontologist at Deakin University running a fossil dig for Megafauna in Lancefield. There are many different theories for the deposition of the >10,000 extinct animals in the swamp. This year we hope to have the start of an ongoing dig that is a collaboration between Deakin Unversityi, Latrobe, Monash and Melbourne Universities with Museum Victoria.

Einstein A Go Go - 30th October 2016

Dr Ray, Dr Krystal & Dr Shane

News items: Paleo-biological mitochondrial research of European bison, fighting the Zika virus with the mosquito.

First Guest: Dr William Yan Centre for eye research Australia Project lead. Winner of the 2016 Google Impact Challenge held in Sydney for their ideas on how best to impact change on problems that face the world. Specifically, winning for the generation of remote visual acuity measuring software. More Here

Second guests: Dr Emma Burrows and Dr Amy Heffernan The Florey Institute Of Neuroscience and Mental Health. Representing Women in Science Parkville Precinct (WiSPP) Representing equity, equality and representation of women in leadership. Perfect pitch is a competition run in aid of refining the project pitching process. Amy's research is looking at the role of metals in neurodegenerative disease including Alzheimer's disease. Particularly Iron using a worm model. More Here and Here and Here

Third guest: Dr Daniel Fernandez-Ruiz Doherty Institute The University of Melbourne. Fighting malaria at the liver phase using high levels of tissue resident memory t-cells generated by a vaccine. More Here

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Dr Shane, Dr Lauren and Dr Ray bring you another hour of the week's hottest science, including rats that use tools and other animals that display interesting intelligent behaviour, remote monitoring of plankton blooms, the crash of the ESA Schiaparelli Mars probe, and earthquake propagation being dissipated by magma. Dr Shane also reviews Longitude by Dava Sobel.

The team speak with Associate Professor Mike Lawrence, from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, who is working in the area of how Insulin works and a how a venom from a marine cone snail could help to develop ultra-fast-acting insulin, leading to more effective therapies for diabetes management.

They also chat with Professor Paul Webley, the director of the Peter Cook Centre for Carbon Capture and Storage Research, and the CO2CRC Capture Program Manager, from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Melbourne, about the new carbon storage research facility that was recently launched.

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Dr Shane, Dr Jeff and Dr Ailie discuss the nobel prize, jumping spiders, high testosterone levels, updated count of galaxies, Mars probe landing and the discovery of an ancient duck sounding bird.

First guest: Suzanne Mason, Dolphin Research Institute, discusses her research on Port Phillip Bay common dolphin communities.

Second guest: Christine Nearchou, senior lecturer in optometry, talks about a crowdfunding campaign to get to Sri Lanka in January to spend time in orphanages screening kids for ocular health and distributing specs (they've done similar work in Laos). She can also talks about the epidemic of myopia among kids in western countries and Asia.

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The week in the studio; Dr Shane is joined by colleagues Dr Euan, Dr Jen & Dr Krystal.

First Guest: Nobel prize winner - Professor Peter Doherty.

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of his Nobel prize win, the team discuss (Among other things) life after the Nobel prize.

The group reflect on not only what has changed in the Professors life since, but also the on-going issues relating to climate change & the exciting next generation of Scientists in this country.

Second Guest: Kelly O'Shanassy - CEO of the Australian Conservation Foundation

Firstly the team's guest explains what it is exactly that the foundation does, then shares some recent local nature news. In particular O'Shanassy explains to the listeners the details surrounding the most recent report from the Stockholm Environmental Institute and how it impacts us in Australia.

Third Guest: Jane Kelly - PHD Candidate from the Department of Animal, Plant and Soil at Latrobe University.

Jane keeps the ecological discussions going but changes the topic to parasites, in particular the 'Liver fluke parasite' and how it's causing serious problems within the dairy industry worldwide.

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Dr Shane, Dr Catherine and Dr Ailie discuss a facial recognition study, a happy bees study, the Rosetta Probe comet landing and the recent extreme weather event in SA.

First guest: Anna-Maria Arabia, New Chief Executive, Australian Academy of Science discusses the function of Academy and it's ability to advocate for evidence based decisions in government policy.

Second guest: Elly Lynch, Clinical Project Manager, Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance tells us about her exciting role in providing a genetic counseling services and the outcome of a government sponsored project to patients requiring genomic sequencing testing for their medical conditions.

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Dr Shane and Dr Jen in the studio with her science communication students from Melbourne University - Trish, Josh, Amy and Sakib. In news, China has lost control of its space station; water bears' protective proteins; smoking changes your DNA; how do whales eat? Science stories, virtual reality in science; global human population increases; exoskeletons; geo-engineering to reverse climate change.

Einstein A Go Go - 18th September 2016

Chris KP, Andrea from the BOM & Dr. Shane

News items:

The processes involved in gastro enteritis, mite mitigation with chickens using sandboxes and chasing tornadoes in the USA.

First Guest:

Kathryn Snow School of Population and Global Health University of Melbourne

The emphasis of the importance of follow up testing after a positive testing for viral hepatitis. Currently there is no current established retesting regime.

More here and here

Second guest

Katie Buckley Associate Lecturer College of Science Health and Engineering La Trobe University.

Up to 50% of the workforce couldn't do their job tasks without their voice. Proximity and body fatigue changes the ability to use the voice in the workplace and the sports field. Why is the voice important and how should we be facilitating our voice? Specialist speech pathologists are an excellent resource as is The Melbourne Voice Analysis Centre (MVAC) The voice is an occupational health issue.

More here and here

Remember, ""Science is everywhere"", including:

Website, Facebook, Twitter, Podcasts

and every Sunday at 11a.m AEST on RRR 102.7mHz FM

Dr Shane, Dr Euan, Dr Jen and Chris KP discuss the week's top science news, including biomimicry being used to deliver medicine, tasting carbohydrates, a trick to change neural pathways, and NASA's mission to the Bennu asteroid.

The team chat to Hannah Macdougall, PhD Student, Sport Management (Centre for Sport and Social Impact) at La Trobe University's School of Management, about her research into a well-being 'brain training' intervention program for elite Para sport athletes.

They also speak to Professor Wing Chiu Information Technology - Engineering at Monash University, about using Aerospace Technology approaches for monitoring structural defects in human bones.

Finally they interview Jemma Evans from the Hudson Research Institute, about female reproductive health; particularly, menstruation, and some of the issues that can arise due to periods.

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