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The PhD students at the London Institute of Medical Sciences bring science to your ears by interviewing leading scientists in biology and medicine. https://lms.mrc.ac.uk/public-engagement-2/community-engagement/otoscope-podcast

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    • Jan 15, 2024 LATEST EPISODE
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    Genes and behaviour

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2024 59:16


    (Re-upload) Radina Georgieva and Macia Sureda Vives talked with Dr Andre Brown about using behaviour for high-throughput genetic and pharmacological screening. Publication of the Month: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2020.02.016

    Schizophrenia

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2024 49:40


    (Re-upload) Eliano dos Santos and Saul Moore talked with Prof Oliver Howes about schizophrenia, mental health, and the psychology behind conspiracy theories. Publication of the Month: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2007056117

    S*x, guts and flies

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2024 41:49


    (Re-upload) Eliano dos Santos and Sijia Yu talked with Dr. Irene Miguel Aliaga about differences in fly physiology and women in STEM. Publication of the Month: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14122-0

    Neurodegeneration and precision medicine

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2024 52:33


    (Re-upload) Eren Akademir, Manos Stylianakis and Macia Sureda Vives met with Prof Richard Festenstein in The Pod @WhiteCityPlace to talk about neurodegeneration and precision medicine. Publication of the Month: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41594-019-0188-z

    Evolution and epigenetics

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2024 56:30


    (Re-upload) Radina Georgieva and Saul Moore met with Dr Peter Sarkies in The Pod @WhiteCityPlace to discuss evolution, epigenetics and gene editing. Publication of the Month: https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.120.303028  

    Drugs and alternative medicines

    Play Episode Play 36 sec Highlight Listen Later Oct 31, 2021 54:22


    Dr Louise Fets @louise_fets discusses drugs and how membrane transporters mediate drug uptake with Eliano Dos Santos  and Sijia Yu. Dr Fets discusses her research on how this intersects with cancer metabolism.Read more about this episode's featured Publications of the Month a review on transcriptional enhancers and their interaction with genes and a publication on searching for genes related to COVID-19 susceptibility by postdoc Dr Helen Ray-Jones. 10.1007/s00018-021-03903-w & 10.3389/fgene.2021.745672.Together Dr Helen Ray-Jones and Dr Louise Fets discuss alternative therapies and why they have been marketed so heavily as treatments for COVID-19.

    The Germline

    Play Episode Play 30 sec Highlight Listen Later Sep 30, 2021 57:16


    Julia Needham and  Ediem Al-jibury discuss science with Dr Harry Leitch and Adam McDermott Rouse.  Dr Leitch discusses his clinical practise,  the germline, pluripotency and the ways in which primordial germ cells can malfunction, causing cancers and  infertility. Should we edit the germline? Together he and Adam address this question in our segment Otoscope-Autoclave.Read more about this episode's publication of the month on studying the mode of action of insecticides and anthelmintic in worms from Adam McDermott Rouse here:   doi: 10.15252/msb.202110267.This episode was produced by the PhD students  Imanol Duran,  Julia Needham and  Ediem Al-jibury . Supported by the GECo team at the LMS MRC and Imperial Graduate School funding. 

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    Evolution of molecular systems

    Play Episode Play 30 sec Highlight Listen Later Aug 31, 2021 52:28


    Alice Brown and Saul Moore discuss the evolution molecular systems with Dr Tobias Warnecke and Dr Antoine Hocher. Dr Warnecke discusses the similarities and differences of key molecular systems across a range of organisms. And have we stopped evolving? Together he and Dr Hocher address this question in our segment Otoscope-Autoclave. Read more about this episode's featured Publication of the Month  by postdoc Dr Antoine Hocher from Dr Warnecke's lab here: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.08.451601 .This episode was produced by the PhD students Romain Strock,  Saul Moore and Alice Brown. Supported by the GECo team at the LMS MRC and Imperial Graduate School funding. 

    Cancer and the Cell Cycle

    Play Episode Play 32 sec Highlight Listen Later Jul 31, 2021 51:34


    Virinder Reen and Sherry Cheriyamkunel speak to Dr Alexis Barr and Dr Dounia Djeghloul about their work studying the cell cycle. Dr Barr discusses how cells make decisions on cell cycle entry and why this is important for cancer. Together she and Dr Djeghloul bust some common cancer myths in our segment Otoscope-Autoclave.  Read more about this episode's featured Publication of the Month a method for purifying proteins bound to mitotic DNA by postdoc Dr Dounia Djeghloul from Dame Amanda Fisher's lab here: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17823-z.This episode was produced by the PhD students Virinder Reen, Monica Della Rosa and Sherry Cheriyamkunel . Supported by the GECo team at the LMS MRC and Imperial Graduate School funding. 

    Epigenetics through development

    Play Episode Play 30 sec Highlight Listen Later Jun 30, 2021 43:55


    Ediem Al-jibury and Julia Needham speak to Prof. Juanma Vaquerizas and Dr Fabio D'orazio about their careers, epigenetics through development and computational simulations to replace experiments. Publication of the Month by Dr Fabio D'orazio: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2021.02.007

    Genes and behaviour

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2021 59:22


    Radina Georgieva and Macia Sureda Vives talk with Dr. Andre Brown about using behaviour for high-throughput genetic and pharmacological screening. Find out more: https://tierpsy.com/Publication of the Month by Eliano dos Santos: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2020.02.016

    Schizophrenia

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2021 49:45


    Eliano dos Santos and Saul Moore talk with Prof. Oliver Howes about schizophrenia, mental health, and the psychology behind conspiracy theories. Publication of the Month by Katie Stevens: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2007056117

    Sex, guts and flies

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2021 41:53


    Eliano dos Santos and Sijia Yu talk with Prof. Irene Miguel Aliaga about sex differences in fly physiology and in careers. Publication of the Month by Ellis Chika Onwordi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14122-0

    Neurodegeneration and precision medicine

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2021 52:38


    Eren Akademir, Macia Sureda Vives and Manos Stylianakis talk with Prof. Richard Festenstein about Friedreich's ataxia, precision medicine and genetic determinism. Publication of the Month by Matt Newton: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41594-019-0188-z

    Evolution and epigenetics

    Play Episode Play 38 sec Highlight Listen Later Jan 27, 2021 56:36


    Radina Georgieva and Saul Moore talk with Dr. Peter Sarkies about evolution, epigenetics, transposable elements and gene editing in humans. Publication of the Month by Vassili Kuzmartsev: https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.120.303028

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