GradCast

396 | Slowly Finishing a PHD, Not for a Lac(Tate) Of Trying

Today, host and past editor, Ariel Frame (PhD candidate in Neuroscience) joins hosts Laura and Brittany to discuss the final stages of his PhD research. Join us to learn more about lactate metabolism in the brains of mice and flies! For more of Ariel, check out Episode 267, The Super Secret Sex Life of Fruit Flies.

To keep up with Ariel, check out his Twitter  @ArielFrame and on Google Scholar.

 

Recorded on October 18, 2022.

Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena.

Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.

395 | Behind the Scenes of Swiping Right

This week, hosts Amalie Hutchinson and Ariel Frame speak with FIMS PhD candidate Meghan Voll about her research on the economics of dating apps. Meghan is interested in how these companies use value conflation to influence their business platforms and is aiming to map out the data flows of how these companies use, exchange, and monetize user data. 

To find out more about Meghan's research, go check out her Twitter at @meghan_voll9

Recorded on October 11, 2022.

Produced by Jordan VanderBurgt.

Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.

394 | Bubbles: The Only Thing Between Me and a Dissertation

This week, hosts Amalie Hutchinson and Charan Mandur interview our very own SOGS VP Academic, Kevin Moore. In addition to his role on the Society of Graduate Students advocating for and making grad student's voices heard, Kevin is a PhD Candidate in the department of Medical Biophysics where he studies blood flow. We chat about what his lab days look like, learn a bit more about how blood flows through our veins, hear about the best part about Kevin's grad experience: friendships made along the way. How very heart (..and the blood flowing through it..) warming.

Recorded on October 4, 2022.

Produced by Amalie Hutchinson.

Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.

393 | Talking to Teachers

Charan Mandur and Ariel Frame speak with Zsofia Agoston about her ongoing institutional ethnography research with Ontario teachers. Zsofia explains how she plans to use an anthropological lens to investigate the methods being used to teach difficult knowledge at the K-8 level.

To find out more from Zsofia check out her Twitter @zsofimedovarski

Recorded on September 28, 2022.

Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena.

Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.

392 | Changing Ecosystems: Nitrogen in the Soils

In today’s episode, Benjamin Souriol speaks with Laura Muñoz and Claire Bottini about his Master studies on nitrogen cycling and soil ecology. Benjamin explains how nitrogen molecules go in and out of the environment and how nitrogen spreads in a system according to different treatments. He aims to better understand how agricultural intensification and global warming can affect this molecule in our environment on the short and long term. 

Recorded on September 20, 2022.

Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena.

Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.

391 | Revitalizing Mapudungun: A Cooperative Effort

This episode welcomes Javier Alvarez, a PhD student in anthropology, studying Mapudungun — the language of the Mapuches. Mapuches are an indigenous community that inhabited South America way before colonization, and is currently established in central Chile and southwest Argentina. Javier shares with hosts Charan and Laura his intentions to cooperate with the Mapuches in order to develop and promote strategies to revitalize Mapudungun.  

Recorded on September 17, 2022.

Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena.

Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.

390 | Something’s Fishy in Lake Ontario

Peter Baker speaks with Ariel Frame and Charan Mandur about his ongoing Biology MSc research on lake trout from Lake Ontario. Peter explains how he studies lake trout to determine how a thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency, caused by the consumption of invasive prey fishes, impacts fish health and behavior. Moreover, Peter discusses aspects of fishing which influence ecosystem conservation.

Recorded on September 13, 2022.

Produced by Amalie Hutchinson.

Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.

389 | Not Always Safe Before and After Canada’s Borders

In today’s episode, hosts Claire Bottini and Carly Charron talk with Natalia Parra about her anthropological studies on Canadian refuges immigration process. Natalia particularly focuses on the experience of Columbian women refugees in Canada and the asylum adjudication system that determines who is “worthy” to be considered a refugee and who is not.  

Recorded on September 6, 2022.

Produced by Jordan VanderBurgt.

Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.

388 | Don’t Make Life Decisions at 2am

In this episode, Gradcast's new managing editor, Amalie Hutchinson, talks with hosts Laura and Brittany about her PhD studies in hummingbird physiology. Specifically, daily torpor and mitochondria. Tune in to learn about how birds cope with cold winter temperatures and get a glimpse of the day of a Biology grad student. 

 

Recorded on August 30, 2022.

Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena.

Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.

 

#GraduatedLife 4 | Career Equilibrium with Chemistry PhD Christina Booker

On this episode of #GraduatedLife, hosts Charan Mandur and Amalie Hutchinson chat with Dr Christina Booker. Christina graduated with her PhD in Chemistry in 2012, and now works as a faculty member at Western, developing new teaching strategies. She shares with us ways to balance work and family life, advice for making career connections, and more.

Recorded on August 22, 2022

Produced by Amalie Hutchinson.

Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.