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The official podcast of the Society of Graduate Students at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. We aim to showcase the innovative research that graduate students are conducting at Western University and appeal to various audiences including those within and beyond the academic community.
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Friday Jul 28, 2017
126 | Staph-ing Problems
Friday Jul 28, 2017
Friday Jul 28, 2017
Hosts Yimin and Roger are joined by Heba Alnaseri, who is working to find out how to prevent opportunistic infections by the Staphylococcus Aureus bacterium.
Follow her research on Twitter: @hebastweets or @McGavLab
Hosts: Yimin Chen and Roger Hudson
Wednesday Jul 19, 2017
125 | Extreme Bacteria - How to Survive Extreme Radiation
Wednesday Jul 19, 2017
Wednesday Jul 19, 2017
Robert Szabla, PhD Candidate in Biochemistry, discusses his research on Deinococcus radiodurans Bacteria and how it's pprA Protein allows it to survive 14,000 times more radiation than a human cell.
Hosts: Andrew Hanna and Alex Moszczynski
Tuesday Jul 18, 2017
124 | Mood and Anxiety Disorders in the Immigrant Population
Tuesday Jul 18, 2017
Tuesday Jul 18, 2017
On this episode of Gradcast, hosts Emma and Andrew speak with Jordan Edwards, a first-year PhD student in the department of epidemiology and biostatistics.
Edwards studies the prevalence of mood and anxiety disorders in the Canadian immigrant and refugee population.
Hosts: Emma Bridgwater and Andrew Hanna
Tuesday Jul 18, 2017
123 | Anatomy of Sound
Tuesday Jul 18, 2017
Tuesday Jul 18, 2017
Hosts Taniya and Susan talk to fellow Gradcast committee member Emma Bridgwater about how the human brain interpret sounds, and how you can measure it in sleeping subjects.
Hosts: Taniya Nagpal and Susan Anthony