Life Solved

"if you have depression it is a physical construct now, rather than "it's all in the mind""

Have you ever felt your stomach knot up before a public speech? Professor Swinny has been exploring the physical link between our bodies and our life experiences. Can being stressed make you ill? Does depression change your body? And how does trauma change us physically? The answers lie in our brains.

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Points of Interest:

Professor Jerome Swinny – Professor of Neuropharmacology

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Early life psychosocial stress and the body - https://sciencebeta.com/early-stress-gaba-a/

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"You can't have modern medicine without antibiotics because you can't have surgery.... All your chemotherapies impact immunity. I think it would be good if we could find a way to not get the resistance coming back"

Antibiotics have transformed healthcare and meant that once life-threatening illnesses can be treated with ease, but resistant bacteria are a worrying prospect. That’s why Professor Anastasia Callaghan’s been exploring the inner mechanisms of bad bacteria to find out if further innovations can stop them multiplying in the first place.

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Points of Interest:

Professor Anastasia Callaghan - Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biohysics

https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/anastasia-callaghan

Antimicrobial resistance as a global concern - https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/antimicrobial-resistance

Antimicrobial resistance and Antibiotics – NHS - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/antibiotics/antibiotic-antimicrobial-resistance/

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"headache tablets, statins, things for cholesterol or things for hayfever or contraceptive pill.... they end up into the nearest river...we drink that water. We use this water recreationally"

When you pour a medicine down the sink or flush it down the loo, where do the chemicals end up? Professor Alex Ford has been exploring how the behaviour of sea creatures changes when zombie-like parasites thrive in polluted waters, even causing their hosts to change sex.

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Professor Alex Ford – Professor of Biology

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"we should... not underestimate (dogs) and...how rich their environment needs to be… for them to really enjoy life."

We speak to Dr Juliane Kaminski, whose fascination with the animal mind and its difference from our own is leading to insights in how we can better relate to our furry friends.

Her team have found out how a particular eyebrow movement in domestic dogs can be used to influence our behaviour, meaning human beings are wrapped around their paws, without even realising it!

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Dogs produce more facial expressions when we’re looking at them - https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/news/dogs-are-more-expressive-when-someone-is-looking

Dr Juliane Kaminski - https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/juliane-kaminski

Evolution of facial muscle anatomy in dogs - https://www.pnas.org/content/116/29/14677

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Series 2 of Life Solved features ideas and research that is changing our understanding of human relationships with environments. John Worsey chairs two discussions exploring the world’s plastic pollution problem, and how this might be challenged with enzyme technology that’s developing here at Portsmouth.

He also finds out how developing nations are outstripping the developed world in adopting innovative environmental collaborations in government and hears how everyday infrastructure such as wastewater systems might embrace technology to make our lives cleaner, safer and less destructive to environments.

John Worsey talks to:

Professor John McGeehan on innovation using plastic-eating enzymes

Professor Steve Fletcher on how economic policy around ocean resources can improve sustainability.

Professor John Williams on the challenges and opportunities to revolutionising wastewater infrastructure for sustainable living

Professor Pierre Failler on how to managed natural resources to give value to our economy.

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Professor John McGeehan: Professor of Structural Biography Director for the newly-established Centre for Enzyme Innovation (CEI)

https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/john-mcgeehan

https://www.port.ac.uk/research/research-centres-and-groups/centre-for-enzyme-innovation

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https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/features/mutant-enzyme

Professor Steve Fletcher: Professor of Ocean Policy and Economy and Director of the Sustainability and the Environment research theme  

https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/steve-fletcher

https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/blogs/sustainability-and-the-environment/can-portsmouth-lead-the-way-for-a-sustainable-plastics-future 

https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/features/the-devils-in-the-details-of-the-deep-blue-sea

Professor John Williams: Professor of Environmental Technology and research lead for the School of Civil...

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Season 2 of Life Solved is coming on Tuesday 3rd of November with a special episode on the economic side of sustainable living and practise. In this highlights episode John Worsey looks back on a few moments from Season One. Hear extracts covering social media's changing role in political discourse, how drone operators can be mentally affected by their work during warfare, how our changing climate signals a rise in UK forest fires and all about the native oysters that are returning to the Solent with innovative technology.

Life Solved from the University of Portsmouth gives you a window into the cutting-edge research that's changing our world now and in the future.

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Juliet Brook tells us how our 180 year-old will and inheritance laws are causing problems during Coronavirus, and explains how other countries are able to show leniency where witnesses are missing or documents aren't correctly signed. So how do these 'Dispensing Powers' work, and where might a reformed UK law draw the line of leniency?

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Points of Interest:

Mrs Juliet Brook- Principal Lecturer, and Associate Head at Portsmouth Law School-

https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/juliet-brook(d28aed10-45c6-449c-9ec1-5b756a47179c).html

Law Commission - https://www.lawcom.gov.uk/

Law of Intestacy - https://www.gov.uk/inherits-someone-dies-without-will

Grenfell Tower - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40301289

Wills and Inheritance Laws in Australia - https://worldwidelawyers.co.uk/wills-probate/wills-probate-in-australia/

Privileged Will - https://www.lexisnexis.co.uk/legal/guidance/validity-of-wills-privileged-wills

Guidance on making wills using video conferencing - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/guidance-on-making-wills-using-video-conferencing

New Zealand Wills Act 2007 - http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2007/0036/latest/whole.html

New Zealand Epidemic Preparedness Wills Act - http://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2020/0065/latest/whole.html

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Dr. Joanne Preston shows us how she's been reintroducing native oysters to the Solent with pioneering tech. The biodiversity and water quality of benefits of these humble creatures can be astounding, but after years of over-fishing, is it possible to reintroduce them in the Solent and supercharge our waters once again?

Check out how she’s built special ‘cages’ to accommodate the new population and help overcome challenges to their settling and reproduction.

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Points of Interest 

Dr Joanne Preston- Principal Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences- https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/joanne-preston(c24a8c2b-9dc0-47cb-b4e9-62da478643f8).html 

Slipper Limpet - https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/marine/sea-snails-and-sea-slugs/slipper-limpet 

Ben Ainslie - https://benainslie.com/ 

Blue Marine Foundation - https://www.bluemarinefoundation.com/projects/solent/ 

MDL Marina Group - https://www.mdlmarinas.co.uk/ 

Joanne in Solve Magazine, First Issue, pg 16-17- https://view.joomag.com/solve-magazine-issue-01-2020/0114851001589434668?short 

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Professor Arthur Butt and his research team are obsessed with a little known type of cell in our nervous system. He explains why deeper research into glia could hold the key to treating some of our biggest illnesses, and ponders what other mysteries are yet to be discovered in our own bodies.

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Points of Interest: 

Professor Arthur Butt - Professor of Cellular Neurophysiology, School of Pharmacy & Biomedical Sciences- https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/arthur-butt(499f247e-36d0-4480-891f-c84d8af49915).html 

‘The GLIA Research Group’ - https://www.port.ac.uk/research/research-centres-and-groups/neurochemical-anatomy-and-psychopharmacology-research-group/cellular-neurophysiology-group 

An overview of Myelin - https://www.brainfacts.org/brain-anatomy-and-function/anatomy/2015/myelin 

Mulitlpe Sclerosis - https://www.mssociety.org.uk/about-ms/what-is-ms?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-uHRqePy6gIVn4BQBh0GKwztEAAYASAAEgJmj_D_BwE 

Alzheimer's and Dementia - https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/types-dementia/alzheimers-disease 

BBRSC - https://bbsrc.ukri.org/ 

MRC - https://mrc.ukri.org/ 

Physiology at King's College London - https://www.kcl.ac.uk/lsm/physiology 

Lithium - https://www.drugs.com/lithium.html 

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Dr. Mark Hardiman looks at those soaring temperatures on the Costa del Portsmouth and says climate change could soon mean long, hot summers are the norm in the UK. With this comes a greater risk of forest fires in our damp nation, so what does this mean for our future homes and lifestyles? He explains the complex history of fire ecology and our changing landscape in the UK, as well as how humans and fire have always co-existed.

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Points of Interest: 

Dr Mark Hardiman- Senior Lecturer at School of the Environment, Geography & Geosciences 

https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/mark-hardiman(bfdbb275-c88a-4373-b95b-f2878c21d851).html 

Australia Wildfires - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-50951043 

Amazon Fires - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-53262565 

Surrey - https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/ 

Maritime Climate - http://www.enviropedia.org.uk/Climate/Maritime_Climate.php 

National Environment Research Council (NERC)- https://nerc.ukri.org/ 

Mark in Solve Magazine, First issue, Pg 24-25- https://view.joomag.com/solve-magazine-issue-01-2020/0114851001589434668?short 

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