GradCast

150 | Advocating for Accessibility

Roger and Chantal talk to SOGS Accessibility Commissioner, Martin Ross, and accessibility advocate Ashton Forrest about resources for graduate students with disabilities.

 

Hosts: Roger Hudson and Chantal Lemire

 

Produced by Susan Anthony

Special Episode: WUGSOM Part 1 - Live! at the Western University Graduate Symposium on Music

In this episode, hosts Roger and Yimin are introduced to the WUGSOM organizers and researchers studying how music reflects and enriches our lives.

 

Hosts: Yimin Chen and Roger Hudson

 

Produced by Susan Anthony

Special Episode: "Why Am I Here?" A Questionable Conversation With The Lego Grad Student

The Lego Grad Student visited Western as the special guest for the 2017 SOGS Graduate Wellness Forum and GradCast was fortunate enough to get him into the recording booth! Join Yimin and Chantal in conversation with Dr. Lego Grad Student as he reflects on his life in plastic.

Follow his exploits on social media at:

https://twitter.com/legogradstudent

https://www.facebook.com/legogradstudent

https://www.instagram.com/legogradstudent

https://legogradstudent.tumblr.com 

Hosts: Yimin Chen and Chantal Lemire

 

Produced by Susan Anthony

149 | Baby: "It's Cold Outside. My Mother Will Start To Worry"

What happens when pregnant mothers get sick? Ariel and Yimin discuss maternal infections during pregnancy and its effect on neurodevelopmental disorders - with Faraj Haddad.

Follow along with his work at the Schmid Lab at: http://www.theschmidlab.com

Hosts:Yimin Chen and Ariel Frame

 

 

Produced by Charlotte Panneton

148 | Be gone Bacteria, you Baerly have a chance

Last year, at the SOGS Western Research Forum, we spoke with Brandon Baer. His work on antibiotic-resistant bacteria caught the interest of many of you so we invited him again! Passionate as before about his work, he has been on the path to develop a new therapy for treating a whole range of bacterial lung infections. Curious? So join Navaneeth and Roger on today's episode. 

 

Hosts: Navaneeth Mohan and Roger Hudson

 

Produced by Susan Anthony

147 | Pretty Fly for a Social Guy

Yimin and Ariel spoke with Ryley Yost about his work looking into the social behaviour of the fruit fly Drosophila, and what techniques are needed to experiment on this interesting little model organism.

 

Hosts: Yimin Chen and Ariel Frame

 

Produced by Susan Anthony 

 

146 | Learning from Adversity

Navaneeth and Ariel talk with Niki Kamkar about her work studying how stressful events in children affect response to reinforcement.

 

Hosts: Ariel Frame and Navaneeth Mohan

 

 

Produced by Susan Anthony

145 | To Hibernate, Perchance to Dream

What happens when animals hibernate? Kate Mathers is working to find out! Catch her conversation with Susan and Yimin about Doritos, arousal, and adorable 13-lined ground squirrels.

 

Hosts: Susan Anthony and Yimin Chen

 

Produced by Susan Anthony

144 | Hey Doctor, What's Smoking?

Have you reached for a cigarette and been advised to take a walk instead? Well, Matthew Fagan is speaking to you. While rolling up for his PhD at Western's Kinesiology dept he investigates the effect of nicotine on cognitive functioning. In today's episode, he chats with Tanya and Navaneeth about how nicotine fares against a brisk walk on cognitive tests. What he found was unexpected.

 

Hosts: Navaneeth Mohan and Tanya Nagpal

 

Produced by Susan Anthony

143 | What Does Stress Smell Like For a Bird?

A little bird told us that Chlöe Carter was studying stress and memory in birds. Chlöe tells Ariel and Charlotte about her work testing whether stressful smells, sights and sounds can illicit fear and alter memory. 

 

Hosts: Ariel Frame and Charlotte Panneton

 

Produced by Susan Anthony