Incubation Time

We interview fellow graduate student (and social media influencer) Priscilla Del Valle. She talks to us about what working in a lab with different kinds of tissue culture is like and what the microbiome has to do with cancer research!

We also talk to her about entering biotech after your PhD and how she became famous online!

Follow her at @prisdvmvsscience on insta and tiktok

Follow us at @incubation_time for pictures to accompany this episode!

We are BACK! And we are starting with a standalone interview with graduate student Carlos Pinzon. He has a fascinating story going from vet school to grad school and he has worked with every kind of animal under the sun! Carlos gives us some insight into stem cells and agricultural research and how finicky and particular it can be to work with these kinds of cells.

Warning: this episode is very jargon heavy and technical but you'll learn a lot if you do decide to dive in!

In today’s episode, we finally get to fan-girl about our favorite model organism… except with a twist. C.elegans are cool and fun but in this episode we deep-dive into the life of the parasitic worm, Schistosoma mansoni, with graduate student Sarah Cobb. 

Time Stamps:

0:00- Intro

Link to article from Lexus' Lab!

The model organism episodes continue, this week featuring fruit flies! Those pesky buggers do more than just populate your banana bowl. Tune in to hear us interview a grad student about what makes fruit flies such a popular model organism and the cool things we can research by using them. Join us, as we find yet another organism name we can't pronounce.

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Marianne's Paper:

After a long break, Lexus and Priyankaa are back with their 2nd Model Organism interview! This episode, you learn all about that tiny little (model)organism that makes happy-hours happy...YEAST! Or should we say Saccharomyces cere..cere..vis-iae? Lexus and Priyankaa sit down with Ph.D. Candidate Natalie Ortiz to not only learn about yeast, but also deep dive into microbiology and food-science. 

Time Stamps - 

0-3:45 Intro/catch up 

3:45-5:40 Women in Science 

5:40 - 10:45 Science News of the Week

10:45 - 14:45 Background with Yeast

14:45 - Yeast Interview with 5th Year Ph.D. Candidate Natalie Ortiz 

Its that time of year again! Sit down with Priyankaa and Lexus as they discuss the latest Nobel Prizes in Medicine, Chemistry and Physics as well as giving you the science news of the week and the woman in science of the week (she's related to one of the laureates this year!)

Woman of the week: Christiane Volhard (1995 Nobel Prize winner)

Timepoints

14:20-Medicine Prize

Sources:

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2021/advanced-information/

Lexus and Priyankaa are now PhD candidates! Check in with us in this mini episode as we reflect and de-stress from these last three months and explain why we've been absent.

Hope to get back to regular podcasting soon!

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We're BACK! Join us post-snowpocalypse as we dive into E. coli, the workhorse of every research lab.  Come find out how it was discovered, the way humans end up with E. coli when we are born, why its such a great and safe organism to use in lab, how fast they actually grow and how bacteria is responsible for one of the worst attacks on US soil (and no, its not the one you're thinking of).  We also interview a guest--our classmate Ryan Otto--about his experience working with E. coli in his lab.

Woman in Science featured: Gertrude Elion (https://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochangedscience/stories/gertrude-elion)

Episode Breakdown:

0:00- Intro live from the Snow-pocalypse

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-Lexus and Priyankaa