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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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Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
Join hosts Amalie Hutchinson and Elizabeth Mohler as they sit down with musicology PhD candidate Lydia Wilton. Sharpen your ears and get ready to hear about Lydia's research in record production. We learn how horror movies manage to make you feel so unsettled, and what really goes into making a record—from the technical to the poetic. So, listen up, it's time to press "play" on this fascinating episode.
To hear more from Lydia, follow her on Instagram @LydiaTheClaire or Twitter @LydiaTheClaire and check out some of her work with bands Nameless Friends and Older Siblings
Recorded Jan 25, 2022
Produced by Ariel Frame
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Wednesday Jan 26, 2022
Wednesday Jan 26, 2022
This week, Rosemary Giles and Laura Munoz-Baena sit down with Hanna Barnett, a PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies. Hanna and our hosts discuss her current research on the Influenza of 1918, the way that media represented the 1918 Influenza in Canadian newspapers, and how the Canadian media perpetuated the “Spanish” association with the disease. They discuss what it’s like researching historic pandemics during a pandemic, and how this has affected Hanna’s research.
To keep up to date on what Hanna is doing, check her out on Linkedin: @Hanna Barnett.
Recorded on January 18, 2022.
Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena.
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Saturday Dec 25, 2021
Saturday Dec 25, 2021
This week, Amalie Hutchinson and Brittany Melton are joined by guest Soren Coulson, a PhD candidate in Biology. Together, they discuss Soren's research on the mitochondria (the powerhouse of the cell) in migratory birds and its role in energy metabolism in muscle. Soren shares with the Gradcast a day in the lab and his best advice for those interested in a PhD in Biology.
Recorded on December 14th, 2021.
Produced by Hira Nadeem.
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Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Join hosts Elizabeth Mohler and Rhys Paterson as they talk to Frangel Lopez Cesena, a violinist who analyzes music from a hermeneutical perspective. What’s that you ask? Musical meaning. Listen in as Frangel, Elizabeth and Rhys talk about becoming a violinist, practicing, songs that make them feel good, and how we interpret and imagine music.
Recorded on November 30, 2021.
Produced by Rhys Paterson
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Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
In this episode Zara Diab speaks with Ariel Frame and Claire Bottini about her ongoing PhD in English and Writing Studies. Zara describes how her research will be focusing on contributors to rape culture and the involuntary celibate (Incel) community. Listen in as Zara discusses examples of violent acts relating to these phenomena and how contemporary media reflects and perpetuates narratives that can lead to this kind of behaviour.
To hear more from Zara, find @ZaraDiab on Instagram and Facebook or email zdiab@uwo.ca
Recorded on November 23, 2021.
Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena.
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Sunday Nov 28, 2021
Sunday Nov 28, 2021
Having recently completed her MSc in Neuroscience at Western University, Kyla Lee has embarked on the next step in her career, a Medical Science PhD at University of Toronto. Kyla speaks with Ariel Frame and Yimin Chen about both her MSc research and her plans for PhD studies. Kyla explains how her MSc work modelling schizophrenia in rats aimed to elucidate how brain development contributes to the disease and how her PhD work will focus on cultural competency of primary physicians with immigrant patients.
To hear more from Kyla, follow her on Twitter @kylaaalee
Recorded on November 16th, 2021.
Produced by Hira Nadeem.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
Wednesday Nov 24, 2021
Wednesday Nov 24, 2021
Join hosts Amalie Hutchinson and Laura Munoz-Baena as they sit down with recent PhD grad Gavin Tolometti to learn about how space rocks, rock! Gavin shares how he uses remote sensing techniques and field research here on Earth to figure out how impact craters and lava flows affected the landscape of the moon. In addition to rocks beyond our planet, our conversation flowed into some impactful advice about life beyond the degree.
To hear more about Gavin, you can find him on twitter as @GavinOnTheMoon, visit his website, or listen to his podcast The Diaries of Space Explorers.
Recorded on November 9, 2021.
Produced by Laura Munoz Baena.
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Thursday Nov 11, 2021
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
Kate Onuska is a PhD student in the Department of Neuroscience. She is working on new ways to trace changes in the brain cholinergic system associated with age. She described the different brain imaging techniques before diving into her research on a new marker for cholinergic neurons called FEOBV in association with positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. Her work with mice increases our understanding of proteins and how neuronal tracts change with time that could lead to pathologies such as Alzheimer’s disease.
To hear more about Kate's research, follow her on Twitter @k8onuska and check out the INCA Lab here.
Recorded on November 2nd, 2021.
Produced by Hira Nadeem.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
Monday Nov 01, 2021
Monday Nov 01, 2021
If you ever wonder about the survival of some organisms during the winter, you won't want to miss this episode, where hosts Amalie and Laura talk to PhD student Brynne Duffy about one of the most interesting survival strategies in mammals: hibernation. Particularly, the conversation centers around thirteen lined squirrels, obligated hibernators that almost shut down their entire body during several days, significantly reducing their body temperature. Find out how climate change could affect the survival of squirrels and discover other potential uses of hibernation, way out of the burrow, in human organ transplant.
To learn more about the science of hibernation, find Brynne on twitter as @BrynneDuffy.
Recorded on October 26, 2021.
Produced by Laura Munoz Baena.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.