The HudCast

This week, we actually see our guest (the amazing Dr Amy Wilson) face to face. It's all the same Hudcast shenanigans, but this time, in person! Amy finished her PhD alongside Mikee and is now a postdoc within the centre and is studying Ovarian Cancer Biomarkers. Read about her amazing work here: https://hudson.org.au/researcher-profile/amy-wilson/

Professor Beverley Vollenhoven sits down to chat with us about her clinical work, research life and everything in between.  We absolutely love chatting to professors. They've been through it all and are a treasure trove of wisdom and hilarious stories. 

Dr Paris Papagiannis joins us to chat about how unlucky she's been in science. Seriously, you think you're unlucky? Trust us, Paris has got you beat! She also chats about her current work in the cellular landscape of the lungs and how cells interact with each other to proliferate and maintain homeostasis.  Read more about Paris' work here:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paris-Papagianis

Dr Daniel Rolnik joins us to chat about his career as a maternal fetal medicine specialist, his work leading a multicentre, randomised trial on the prediction and prevention of pre-eclampsia and how football (translation: soccer) is like religion.Read more about Daniel's work here:https://www.monash.edu/medicine/scs/researchers/daniel-rolnik

Dr Tom Forbes joins us to chat about his career as a pediatrician, his PhD work in stem cell research and life lessons learnt during lockdown. Read more about Tom's work here:https://www.melbournepaediatricspecialists.com.au/profile/dr-tom-forbes/

Dr Shavi Fernando joins us to chat about his as a specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist, the research he's done and what it's like to be a dad during the pandemic. Read more about Shavi'swork here:https://www.drshavifernando.com/

AAANNNDD WEEE'RRRREEEE  BAAAACCCKKKDr Shayanti Mukherjee joins us to chat about her work in pelvic organ prolapse, her journey around the world to get here and how well she's going to treat her new honours student!Read more about Shayantis work here:https://hudson.org.au/researcher-profile/dr-shayanti-mukherjee/

Dear HudCasters. We put this little video episode together just to say a special thank you to everyone who has taken part in our little show this year. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 

This week we are joined by the awesome Professor Rod Hunt!He is dedicated to investigating ways to protect baby brains and asks us all to live in the moment. Check out his track record here! You will be blown away! https://hudson.org.au/latest-news/major-gift-to-neonatal-paediatrics/

This week we are joined by the awesome Dr Michael Leung, who is changing the game when it comes to tertiary learning. Anyone whos sat in lectures and tutes before knows how difficult it can be to apply that knowledge to the real world. So let's take the real world to the classroom!

This week we are joined by not 1, not 2, not 3 but 4 scientists! Dr Emily Camm joins us to chat about her work in all things 'getting babies to grow better', and conditions such as placental sufficiency and fetal growth restriction. Not only that, but she joins our chat with 3 'scientists in the making'. 3 very awesome honours and future PhD students; Beth Piscopo, Charmaine Rock, and Tegan White, who come on to share their honours experience and some cool things they've learned this year!Links to more of Emily's work can be found here:https://hudson.org.au/researcher-profile/dr-emily-camm/

DID YOU MISS US?!.... Did you even notice that we were gone? We took a little break but are back with a new episode out tonight! Episode 28 out now! We chat with a researcher who works on endometriosis, moved to Melbourne during the lockdown and he partakes in some classic Melbourne vs Adelaide banter. Check it out, wherever you get your podcasts

This week we are joined by a very special guest, the totally awesome Professor Graham Jenkin! His research focuses on fetal and neonatal wellbeing, in particular at-risk pregnancies, including Fetal Growth Restriction (FGR), infection in pregnancy, fetal and perinatal hypoxia, and premature birth.He is also an avid sailor with the nickname "Captain Bligh". Tune in to find out why!https://hudson.org.au/researcher-profile/graham-jenkin/

This week we are joined by the awesome Professor Eric MorandProfessor Eric Morand is Head of the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University's largest clinical school, and a physician-scientist. So we make sure to talk about some really important issues, like how cool students are, what his favorite band is, and how many instruments he knows how to play! (it's a lot) Check out his work here:https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/eric-morandhttps://www.monash.edu/medicine/scs/about/hos-message

This week we are joined by the awesome Dr Fiona Cousins. You may remember the very cryptic "Whachchaa" HudcastHello a few weeks back.  Well, we found her and got her to explain just what that was! We also chat about her amazing work in endometriosis and her journey from Scotland to get here. Check out her work here:https://hudson.org.au/researcher-profile/dr-fiona-cousins/fiona-cousins/https://bit.ly/2ZCqHjY

This week we are joined by the awesome double Dr Atul Malhotra.Atul is a clinician-scientist who's work focuses on identifying and treating brain injury in babies. He does this with some really high tech analysis and cutting edge science. Check out his work here:https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/atul-malhotrahttps://www.onesimeducation.com/ 

This week we are joined by the awesome Dr Nicole Campbell. She is investigating the utility of interferons as a treatment for ovarian cancer, loves pokemon and is an absolute baking whiz!Check out her work here:https://hudson.org.au/researcher-profile/nicole-campbell/ 

This week we chat with the totally awesome Associate Professor Rebecca Lim!A/Professor Rebecca Lim is a Deputy Centre Head of The Ritchie Centre where she leads the Regenerative Medicine and Cellular Therapies Theme. She sat down with us to chat about her involvement with some really awesome science and huge clinical trials! Also how her love of Japanese sword fighting helped her find love and the lessons she learnt when starting to take care of a lab group on her own. Check out her awesome work here!https://hudson.org.au/researcher-profile/rebecca-lim/ 

This week we are joined by the awesome Dr Annie McDougall. We chat about life leading into research and the choice to move on to something new. Annie is also currently volunteering at the amazing PANDA. An organization dedicated to supporting those dealing with Perinatal Anxiety & Depression Australia. There is no health without mental healthhttps://www.panda.org.au/ 

This week we chat to the awesome Dr Paulo Pinares-Garcia on using some pretty high-tech equipment to study signalling within the brain and how this may improve the treatment of Epilepsy. He's also an awesome musician! Listen close for some musical gems hidden in this episode! 

This episode is a special one. It truly is. We don't talk about it enough, but science is hard. And mentally, it's pretty tough. If there is one take away from this - its always okay to take care of you. Dr Hayley Dickinson joins us to talk about her journey into and out of a research career and how shes used her experience to not only help her grow as a person but start a company that's aimed at helping others. Check out the amazing 'Eat for Baby' herehttps://www.instagram.com/eatforbaby/ 

If you are a science student, be it undergrad to PhD and not sure if you're set on a postdoc, then this one is for you!Dr Rebecca Loh joins us to talk about her journey from undergrad, honors, PhD and now her role as a Clinical Research Coordinator. Science can take you on many different paths, join us to find out about this one! Check out some of the amazing work she is involved in herehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=khI55pvrgN8Check out the musical stylings of "Oh North" herehttps://www.triplejunearthed.com/artist/oh-north

Dr Maree Bilandzic joins us to talk about her work in ovarian cancer, heading her own lab group and how a little partnership with the fashion industry helped raise 12 million dollars for ovarian cancer research.   Read all about her amazing work here https://hudson.org.au/hudson-news/winter-2018/researcher-profile-dr-maree-bilandzic/ and check out the Witchery white shirt campaign here. https://www.adnews.com.au/campaigns/witchery-s-white-shirt-campaign-returns-for-a-12th-year#:~:text=The%20OCRF%20White%20Shirt%20Day,concluding%20on%20Sunday%20May%2031.

Associate Professor Morag Young joins us to talk about how important circadian rhythm is to your overall health. We also chat about 400km bike rides and very importantly, prepare yourself for the greatest song of the century, introduced to us by Morag's 6 year old, move over baby shark - It's raining tacos. Read all about her amazing work herehttps://baker.edu.au/research/staff/morag-young

Associate Professor Claudia Nold joins us to talk about cytokine biology, inflammation, and immunology. We also chat about days where she would hike up snow-covered mountains only to ski off them in an avalanche! Read all about her amazing work herehttps://hudson.org.au/researcher-profile/claudia-nold/Also! If you want to listen to some 3MT (and vote for Ben) check it out here! https://youtu.be/y5JSHIw8XIk https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/mnhsgrresources/3mt

Dr Kelly Crossley joins us to talk about how physiologically based cord clamping may help neonates with CDH and we take a trip down memory lane to her pro-skydiving days!She also helps me (Mikee) pull a fast one on Ben. It's pretty funny. Read all about her amazing work herehttps://fn.bmj.com/content/105/1/18.longhttps://hudson.org.au/researcher-profile/kelly-crossley/

Dr Jun Yang joins us as our third double-doctor! We talk about setting up a clinic dedicated to identifying primary aldosteronism, treating hypertension, and her adventures as a Joey Scout leader! Read all about her amazing work herehttps://hudson.org.au/researcher-profile/jun-yang/

Associate Professor Ashley Mansell joins to talk about his road through an "accidental" PhD. It's led to him running his own lab and is now investigating potential treatments that could be used for inflammatory diseases like COVID-19. Also, does anyone miss the footy as much as we do?Read all about his amazing work herehttps://hudson.org.au/researcher-profile/ashley-mansell/Have a look at Dr James Ong's science blog here!https://theactivescientist.com/

Dr Doug Blank joins to again demonstrate how much effort clinicians put into coming up with weird acronyms for their studies (baby ducc = Baby-Directed Umbilical Cord Cutting) and we rile him up (a lot) discussing why he hates "The Phantom Menace" so much.  Read all about his amazing work herehttps://www.thewomens.org.au/news/could-delayed-cord-clamping-help-babies-who-fail-to-breathehttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30036590/

Dr Jaclyn Pearson joins to help us understand how gut pathogens cause disease in humans and the similarities between being in rock band, a new mum and a lab head.Read all about her amazing work herehttps://research.monash.edu/en/persons/jaclyn-pearson

Professor Kate Loveland joins us to discuss the impact of activin A to male infertility, meeting every student in the Hudson Institute and proves how well she knows her students!Read all about her amazing work herehttps://academic.oup.com/endo/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1210/endocr/bqaa058/5818588?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Buckle up everyone for a really special episode. Our very first panel episode!This week we have gathered Madeline Nicola (Hons), Mary Mansila (PhD), Annie Cox (MBBS, PhD) and Tim Moss (A/Prof) to discuss perspectives on student and supervisor life.  If you are thinking about career in research, this one is for you!

Dr. Vanesa Stojanovska joins us to discuss how infection during pregnancy can mess up the respiratory centers in the brain, how to construct a successful sci-com post and why you're not allowed to double-dip at her house. Read all about her amazing work herehttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncel.2018.00026/full

Dr. Miranda Davies-Tuck joins us to discuss the home-birth safety in victoria, what's new in COVID research and what star signs work well together.Read all about her amazing work herehttps://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-018-1996-6

Dr Callum Roberts joins us to discuss patient the HIPSTER trial. A great example of some awesome clinical work and trying really hard to make an acronym fit your study. He also instagrams his food. So it could just be a self-appointed title. Read all about High Flow Nasal Cannulae as Primary Support in the Treatment of Early Respiratory Distress (HIPSTER) here!https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1603694

Dr Madison Paton joins us to discuss patient perspectives and stem cell treatment for cerebral palsy, the continued importance for the lab eye-wash station and having a student also named Maddy. Find out more about Madi's work here!https://www.cerebralpalsy.org.au/sstposts/StoryId1565566796295 

Dr Rob Galinsky joins us to discuss his study looking at Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) and neuroinflammation, keeping fit in lockdown and snubbing the dean of medicine at graduation.Link to the actual articlehttps://jneuroinflammation.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12974-020-01769-6

Dr Stacey Ellery joins us to discuss her study looking at placental creatine metabolism and pre-eclampsia, her research team and acting cool while using the emergency eye wash.Link to the actual articlehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7036877/ 

Dr Beth Allison joins us to discuss her study looking at what sildenafil does to a developing baby, life in lockdown and how well she knows her favourite student. Link to the actual article https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/ATVBAHA.119.312366