NerdRx Podcast

NerdRx Podcast

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  • Episode#36 Microscopy – Dr. Saurabh Mehta

    Hello listeners,
    Today is an exciting one, Microscopy. Out guest Dr. Saurabh Mehta will discuss the differences between light, confocal and super resolution microscopy. And wait till you hear the fun fact about microscopy. Thank you for joining us, and I hope you keep listening.

    Reading suggestions:
    Nikon MicroscopyU. The source for microscopy education
    https://www.microscopyu.com

     Dr. Eric Betzig – UC Berkeley Physics
    https://physics.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/eric-betzig 

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    33 min
  • Episode#35 Bacteria Spheroid Co-culture – Dr. Dhruba Deb

    Hello listeners,
    This week on NerdRx podcast, we have a novel cell culture technique called bacteria spheroid co-cultures. Dr. Deb will discuss how these bacteria thrive within cancerous tumors and can be used as therapies in the future. Thank you for joining us, and I hope you keep listening.

    Reading suggestions:
    A rapid screening platform to coculture bacteria within tumor spheroids
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41596-022-00723-5 

    Design of combination therapy for engineered bacterial therapeutics in non-small cell lung cancer.
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-26105-1

     

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    31 min
  • Episode#34 Memory Assays in Drosophila Melanogaster – Subhajit Sarkar

    Hello listeners, 

    This week we will discuss a behavior technique different from what we usually discuss. Our guest Subhajit Sarkar, a PhD student at IIT Kharagpur in India, will talk about the nitty-gritty of how to perform memory assays in a fruit fly!Thank you for joining us, and I hope you keep listening. 


    Reading suggestions:Plasticity of local GABAergic interneurons drives olfactory habituation

    https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1106411108

    A simplified courtship conditioning protocol to test learning and memory in Drosophila
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9843266/ 

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    42 min
  • Episode#33 BRET – David Lakhter

    Hello listeners, 
    Today we will talk about BRET, which is short for Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer, with a fellow content creator and podcaster, David Lakhter. Hear it from David about his journey and how he got into creating content. Thank you for joining us, and I hope you keep listening. 

    Reading suggestions:

    Application of BRET to monitor ligand binding to GPCRs

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4488387/

    Get in touch with David: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidlakhter

     Follow The Shane Hummus Show: https://www.youtube.com/@theshanehummusshow/featured

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    29 min
  • May Special - Episode#32 Chemistry after HTS – Dr. Malaika Argade

    Hello listeners, 
    I am so excited that this week my former mentor and the person who made me fall in love with Chemistry is with us tonight. This podcast began with high-throughput screening and Dr. Malaika Argade will take a step further and discuss what happens next. Thank you for joining us, and I hope you keep listening. 

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    46 min
  • Episode#31 Acoustic Liquid Handling – Dr. Julia Hotinger

    Hello listeners, 

    This week we are going to discuss how scientists use sound waves to dispense liquids at a nano scale. Joining us for this episode is Dr. Julia Hottinger. Thank you for joining us, and I hope you keep listening. 

     Reading suggestion:
    A review on acoustic droplet ejection technology and system
    https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/sm/d0sm02193h

    Acoustic Droplet Ejection Applications for High-Throughput Screening of Infectious Agents
    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2211068215620345 

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    21 min
  • Episode#30 CRISPR/Cas9 – Dr. Carla Belmonte Mateos

    Hello listeners, 

    I have been waiting for this one for a long time, CRISPR/Cas9. In this episode, our guest Dr. Carla Belmonte gives us the details of the beauty of CRISPR/Cas9 and how it is evolving as a therapy. Thank you for joining us, and I hope you keep listening. 

    Reading suggestion:
    A Programmable Dual-RNA–Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity
    https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.1225829

    TEMPO enables sequential genetic labeling and manipulation of vertebrate cell lineages
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36417906/

    Cas9 gene therapy for Angelman syndrome traps Ube3a-ATS long non-coding RNA
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2835-2

     

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    35 min
  • Episode#29 Cell-free Systems for Proteolysis and Cell Cycle Study – Dr. Thomas Bonacci

    Hello listeners, 

    This week Dr. Thomas Bonacci will talk about the method he uses to study every stage of cell cycle. Yes, going to the basics with Cell-free systems.  Thank you for joining us, and I hope you keep listening. Reading suggestions:What makes the cell cycle tick? a celebration of the awesome power of biochemistry and the frog egghttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33320710/ 

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    38 min
  • Episode#28 3D-Cell Cultures – Dr. Nishant Kulkarni

    Hello listeners,
    We all have hear about cell cultures but do you that there are 3D-cell cultures too? This week we have Dr. Nishant Kulkarni, who will talk all about his experience with 3D cell cultures. Thank you for joining us, and I hope you keep listening.

    Reading suggestions:
    Three-Dimensional in Vitro Cell Culture Models in Drug Discovery and Drug Repositioning
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5787088/ 

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    49 min
  • Episode#27 X-Ray Chrystallography – Dr. Chrystal Starbird

    Hello listeners, 

    This week Dr. Crystal Starbird, Assistant Professor at UNC Chapel Hill will talk about X-Ray Crystallography, a rival to CryoEM. Thank you for joining us, and I hope you keep listening. 

    Reading Suggestion:
    RCSB Protein Data Bank
    https://www.rcsb.org 

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    44 min

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Hello everyone, NerdRx podcast brings you a new scientific technique every week. I will invite scientists from various backgrounds and discuss their favorite lab techniques. Stay tuned every Tuesday…