Podcasts about masaryk university

For today's show: News; an installation of a new pipe organ at St. Vitus Cathedral begins; Arnošt of Pardubice cruise ship is launched once more; and, for our feature, we bring you to Brno, where students from 22 countries attended Czechia's largest Model UN, held at Masaryk University. 

For today's show: News; an installation of a new pipe organ at St. Vitus Cathedral begins; Arnošt of Pardubice cruise ship is launched once more; and, for our feature, we bring you to Brno, where students from 22 countries attended Czechia's largest Model UN, held at Masaryk University. 

After World War 2, during the period of developed socialism, a rich ecosystem of Marxist intellectuals and academics emerged in the Georgian SSR. Universities and scientific institutes in Tbilisi, Kutaisi, Telavi, and Batumi were home to sociologists, philosophers, anthropologists, historians and other academics who took part in Soviet wide and international discussions and debates on different aspects of Marxist theory or Marxist inspired academic research. Since the collapse of the USSR in 1991, this "lost pantheon" of Georgian Marxism has been politically undermined, intellectually marginalized and socially forgotten. But who were these Soviet Georgian Marxists? What were their ideas? What were they writing about and researching in the period of developed socialism, the late USSR? And how did Soviet Georgian Marxists fit into Soviet-wide and broader international academic networks and debates? And why is reclaiming and reengaging with Soviet Georgian Marxists important today? On today's episode we welcome Bakar Berekashvili to begin this discussion on Marxism in Soviet Georgia, what it tells us about Georgia's Soviet experience and how it relates to academia, politics and more in Georgia since 1991. In the coming weeks we will be releasing a series of shorter episodes on individual Soviet Georgian Marxists....stay tuned! Bakar Berekashvili is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Georgian American University in Tbilisi. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana, at the Masaryk University in Brno and at the Spanish National Research Council in Madrid. His research and teaching interests include qualitative research, critical sociology, Marxist thought in Soviet Union, Soviet Union (life and social order), post-socialist politics and society, ruling class, problems of democracy, social & political theory, political sociology, power and ideology.

News; 21st Antarctica expedition of scientists of Masaryk University gets underway; Czechia secures third straight medal at the World Junior Hockey Championship; Gustav Mahler, the world-renowned composer who drew inspiration from the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands.

News; 21st Antarctica expedition of scientists of Masaryk University gets underway; Czechia secures third straight medal at the World Junior Hockey Championship; Gustav Mahler, the world-renowned composer who drew inspiration from the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands.

In this profound episode, Olga Campora shares her inspiring journey from growing up in communist Czechoslovakia to becoming a transformational coach dedicated to empowering men in the United States. She reflects on the influence of her mother's unwavering support and the mentorship she received from a Czech yogi who opened her eyes to the limitless possibilities within her. Olga speaks passionately about her work with men, helping them confront hidden challenges and rediscover their purpose. Her unique approach emphasizes creating safe spaces where men can be vulnerable, allowing them to explore their deepest selves and reconnect with their authentic desires.Olga also delves into her transformative “Be With” session with Steve Hardison, which she describes as a life-changing experience that deepened her understanding of unconditional love, self-forgiveness, and peace. She shares her commitment to serving as a compassionate guide for her clients, encouraging them to embrace their true selves and create lasting legacies. Through her story and coaching philosophy, Olga offers listeners invaluable wisdom on resilience, purpose, and the power of being. This episode is a heartfelt exploration of legacy, identity, and the courage to fully embody one's potential.About the Guest: Olga Kovářová Campora, PhD., is the author of Saint Behind Enemy Lines, published by Deseret Book. Born and raised in the Czech Republic, she joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints while studying at T.G. Masaryk University in Brno, where she earned a Master's Degree in physical education and a Ph.D. in education. Olga initially worked as an educator, yoga teacher, and lecturer before moving to the United States in the early 1990s. She was later invited to help establish the Czech language program at the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah, which is renowned for preparing missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through intensive language, cultural, and spiritual training. Olga is married to Randy Campora, bass trombonist for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and they have two sons. Their family is notably international, with one daughter-in-law from Sweden and another from Brazil, making their gatherings rich with cultural diversity. Together, they fluently speak four languages and are proficient in four others, totaling eight languages. Recently, Olga became a proud grandmother to her first grandson, Liam, born in May. Professionally.Olga is the founder of LYTA ("Launch Your Third Act") and a transformation coach. She helps men eliminate physical fatigue, anxiety, and emotional emptiness to rediscover their purpose and create fulfilling lives. With her Ph.D. in Education and experience as a yoga therapist (E-RYT 500+) and Life Force Yoga Practitioner, Olga combines academic knowledge with practical wellness expertise. Her mission is to empower men to create enduring legacies that impact their families and the world for generations.https://www.olgacampora.com/ https://www.facebook.com/olgacampora https://www.instagram.com/olgacamporacoaching/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/olga-campora-phd-23ab5340/ About the Host: A beacon of change and a catalyst for transformation, Ipek Williamson is a multifaceted professional who seamlessly integrates two decades of corporate expertise with a diverse skill set as a coach, mentor, speaker, author, meditation...

Organized crime and corrupt rule of oligarchs - A short history of Slovak nationalism - Why do Slovaks dislike the West? Leszek Jazdzewski (Fundacja Liberte!) talks with Michal Vašečka, a Program Director of the Bratislava Policy Institute. Since 2012 Michal serves as a representative of Slovakia in the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) of the Council of Europe. Michal is a chairman of the Editorial Board of Denník N. He operated at the Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University in Brno in 2002-2017 and at the Comenius University in 2006-2009. Tune in for their talk! Michal Vašečka will be a guest of the forthcoming edition of Freedom Games, a festival of ideas held annually in Łódź, Poland. This year's edition will be held on October 18-20 in EC1 Łódź. The European Liberal Forum is the Co-Organizer of the festival. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with Movimento Liberal Social and Fundacja Liberté!, with the financial support of the European Parliament. Neither the European Parliament nor the European Liberal Forum are responsible for the content or for any use that be made of.

Tomáš Kašpárek introduced Rector Martin Bareš as a person who gained his valuable experience in the world as part of a Fulbright scholarship in the USA at the University of Minnesota. "It was interesting to have the opportunity to compare the Czech and American education systems," Martin Bareš, whose specialty is neurology, recalled. He said that he had already travelled to the USA with his family, which was not entirely easy, but in the university environment he encountered great friendliness and a wide range of opportunities to get involved in the community life of the university. Professionally, the prospect of pursuing science and being in constant contact with the field was important to him, and within the local hospital system. In America he experienced a healthy competitive environment, which he considers very important for any scientist's career. His stay in the USA then became an inspiration for him to pursue excellent science at Masaryk University.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1197, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Books Of The Dead 1: The first volume of her poems didn't appear until 1890, 4 years after death stopped for her. (Emily) Dickinson. 2: Irene Nemirovsky's "Suite Francaise" was a bestseller 6 decades after her 1942 death in this infamous camp in Poland. Auschwitz. 3: Samuel Butler's "The Way of All" this was published in 1903, the year after his death. The Way of All Flesh. 4: He died of a heart attack in 2004, shortly before the first novel in his mega-selling thriller trilogy was published. (Stieg) Larsson. 5: Franz Kafka told an executor to destroy the manuscript of the 1925 novel "Der Prozess", this title in English. The Trial. Round 2. Category: Study Abroad 1: The University of Queensland offers a BMid, a bachelor's degree certifying you as one of these baby deliverers. a midwife. 2: You can get a master of music degree from the Sibelius Academy at this European capital's university. Helsinki. 3: You can earn a Ph.D. in pedagogy at Masaryk University in this Central European republic. the Czech Republic. 4: It's safe now to attend Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a battlefront in this 1930s conflict. the Spanish Civil War. 5: Bite into the university of this meaty Italian city, like Copernicus did. Bologna. Round 3. Category: African-American Playwrights 1: Playwright Langston Hughes formed the Suitcase Theater in Harlem and the New Negro Theater in this Calif. city. L.A. (Los Angeles). 2: With its strong political message, Amiri Baraka's play "Dutchman" won one of these off-Broadway awards in 1964. an OBIE. 3: This play about a family moving to the suburbs was the first Broadway play written and directed by African Americans. A Raisin in the Sun. 4: James Baldwin loosely based his play "Blues for Mister Charlie" on the '55 murder of Emmitt Till in this southern state. Mississippi. 5: This playwright of "Fences" and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" founded Pittsburgh's Black Horizon Theatre Company. August Wilson. Round 4. Category: Season. With Season in quotation marks 1: Winter to a baseball player, and a good time to visit a resort to avoid peak tourist times. off-season. 2: Herbs and spices will be these in our stew. seasonings. 3: This Vivaldi work begins with "spring". "The Four Seasons". 4: Paul Scofield won an Oscar as the "year-round" Thomas More in this 1966 film. A Man For All Seasons. 5: This Jason Miller play about a basketball team's reunion was a slam-dunk with critics in 1973. That Championship Season. Round 5. Category: Festivals And Celebrations 1: "Mountaineers are always free" to attend Mountaineer Week in Morgantown in this state. West Virginia. 2: Corbin in this "Bluegrass State" is home to the Nibroc (Corbin spelled backward) festival. Kentucky. 3: This state has a rose festival in Jackson and a lilac festival on Mackinac Island. Michigan. 4: Don't "space out" or you'll miss Panoply, a spring celebration of the arts in this Alabama city. Huntsville. 5: A fire ant mating call contest is part of the Fire Ant Festival in Marshall in this southwest state. Texas. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used

On today's Raise the Line, we continue our Next Gen Journeys series featuring conversations with learners in medical professions around the globe. Our special guest is Omer Rott, a longtime participant in our Osmosis Medical Education Fellowship and Osmosis Health Leadership Initiative programs. Omer will soon be earning his medical degree from Masaryk University in the Czech Republic. In addition to pursuing a career as a pediatrician, he's an aspiring diversity and inclusion medical educator who has founded DiverseMedEd, an organization dedicated to improving how healthcare professionals interact with and treat patients from different backgrounds. “There is a big gap in medical education about diverse patient populations. I think healthcare providers and many other people are afraid about how to approach someone or how to ask about their situation, which might lead them to not say anything or not even act the way they think they might need to.” Through a website (link) and social media posts, Omer has already built a following, many of whom are patients happy to be seeing these issues addressed.  Join host Hillary Acer for a refreshing look at how the healthcare provider community can be more inclusive, and what lessons Omer has drawn from his extensive work mentoring fellow students over the past five years.Mentioned in this episode:DiverseMedEdEquity GraphicElsevier Blog - Is Wearing Pins Appropriate?

Jan Spacek is an explorer both on Earth and beyond. He has worked in the fields of astrobiology, electrochemistry, nanoscience, genomics, and proteomics searching for life within our solar system. Jan is an astrobiologist working with renowned scientist Steven Benner on expanding the genetic alphabet.  In this episode of Casual Space, Jan discusses his transition to astrobiology, his work on projects related to the search for life on Mars and Venus, and the potential for private space missions. Jan explains the importance of planetary protection, the challenges of distinguishing between Earthly contamination and Martian life, and the implications of discovering life for future human missions.  When he's not looking for life on Mars, or why Venus is yellow, Jan is busy freediving or bicycling across Australia. (!)  Follow Jan's critical thinking about life in the universe at The Primordial Scoop https://primordialscoop.org/, a blog devoted to discussing questions related to synthetic biology and astrobiology and asking the big questions about where life began and how.  Jan has worked in the field of electrochemistry of modified and natural DNA at the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Central European Institute of Technology. He has also visited the Ege University (Izmir), the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (Aarhus), the Department of NanoEngineering at UCSD, and the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution (Alachua). He presently develops life detection devices, from coronavirus to Venusians and Martians, at the Firebird Biomolecular Sciences LLC. Outside of science, Jan bicycled around the Baltic Sea and across the Australian continent, 7500 kilometers in all. Jan earned a Master's degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics and a Ph.D. in Genomics and Proteomics (both at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic).

Dr Naim Khan is Professor of Physiology (Exceptional Class) at Burgundy University, Dijon (France). He is Head of a research team on Nutritional Physiology & Toxicology, affiliated to Inserm Research Center (UMR1231). He is principal (co)authors of more than 250 research peer-reviewed articles. He is the Editor of Nutrients, PlosOne and J Clin Med. He has been visiting professor at U Chiba, Japan and U Cagliari, Italy. He is Fellow of Royal Society of Biology, UK. He has been Innolec laureate at Masaryk University, Czech Republic; awarded the Robert Naqué Prize by the Société de Physiologie (France); Nutrition & Food Excellence Prize by National Academy of Medicine (France) and nominated as Ambassador for Research by the Burgundy State (France). He founded a start-up “Ektah” that obtained the iLab Prize (France). Dr Khan has been Secretary General and is acting as Secretary for International Affairs at the Société de Physiologie (France). He is founding member of the African Society of Physiology and Physiopathology, Senegal. He is expert-member in different commissions like ATRBSA Algeria; National ANR France; InnovIris Belgium; National Agency for Food Security (Anses) France. He has been collaborating on obesity physiology with India, Morocco, Tunisia, Benin, Senegal and Ivory Coast. We at Food Junkies are especially interested in his review of the literature of fat addiction. The content of our show is educational only. It does not supplement or supersede your healthcare provider's professional relationship and direction. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified mental health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition, substance use disorder, or mental health concern.

Dr. Martin Lang is assistant professor at Masaryk University, Czech Republic. And is the Director of the Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion (LEVYNA). He joins us to talk us through how rituals form and the roles they have played in fostering cooperation. We discuss the benefits of rituals in reducing anxiety and his current work on why we are seeing a decline in certain rituals along with the rise of non-theism, particularly in nations with greater existential security.Support us and reach out!https://smoothbrainsociety.comInstagram: @thesmoothbrainsocietyTikTok: @thesmoothbrainsocietyTwitter/X: @SmoothBrainSocFacebook: @thesmoothbrainsocietyMerch and all other links: Linktreeemail: thesmoothbrainsociety@gmail.com

Persistent Organic Pollutants: you don't need a Ph.D. in chemistry to recognize realize they are dangerous.  But Dr. Rainer Lohmann has been studying POPs for some time and their danger to the environment and human beings. Lohmann's research combines marine organic geochemistry and environmental chemistry to study recalcitrant organic compounds, including persistent organic pollutants on the molecular level.  He has led Superfund Research Center at the University of Rhode Island since 2018, one among roughly 20 nationwide.  The Center is a collaboration with scientists from Harvard University and the Silent Spring Institute.  It focuses on the Sources, Transport, Exposure and Effects of PFASs—poly- and perfluorinated alkyl substances.  Lohmann has engaged decision-makers by working with scientists from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Environment Canada to advance the use of novel sampling devices to better characterize fluxes of organic pollutants in water and air.  Lohmann is currently one of several scientists from around the world coordinating the AQUA-GAPS program, a joint effort with the Czech Republic's RECETOX initiative at Masaryk University, which conducts research and education around managing the environmental and health risks associated with the chemicals around us.  The AQUA-GAPS program promotes the use of passive samplers for legacy and emerging organic contaminants in the waters of the world is now underway.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 15:40:31 +0000 https://studylegalenglish.com/episode134 bad72b72658ad064aa0a5595ffbad632 Join me as I dive into an enlightening conversation with the innovative Kateřina Chudová, head of the language unit at the faculty of law at Masaryk University. In this episode, we discuss the transformative power of AI in legal English education. From using AI as a vocabulary assistant to its potential role as a mentor, Kateřina shares her insights and experiences. Tune in to get some top tips for using AI to study legal English.

News: New monument to victims of Nazi massacre; Czech historical town of the year named; profile of Masaryk University in Brno.

News: New monument to victims of Nazi massacre; Czech historical town of the year named; profile of Masaryk University in Brno.

Anna Marie Rosická narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. The past 18 months have been adventurous for Anna Marie. From moving to a different country on her own, through the infamous “I-have-no-idea-what-I-am–doing” phase, to gradually becoming settled in her new researcher life with all its perks and peculiarities. Yes, you read that right – it has been something over a year since she started her research PhD. Anna Marie, like most who started a PhD knew it would be a learning experience. But there are also quite a few tricks of the trade she wishes someone had mentioned before she had started, to avoid learning the hard way! In this blog Anna Marie provides a list of such learnings. hopefully they will be helpful to someone else out there – whether you are just starting your own PhD journey or just need to feel less alone with the PhD storms you have already weathered! Find the original text, and narration here on our website. https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-5-things-i-wish-i-knew-before-starting-my-phd/ -- Anna Marie Rosická is a PhD Student at Trinity College Dublin. Anna received a master's degree in psychology from the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, and gained industry experience working as a user experience researcher in IT. Now she studies the effects of ageing and modifiable risk factors on brain health, using gamified cognitive assessments and large-scale data from the smartphone app Neureka. Enjoy listening and reading our blogs? We're always on the look out for new contributors, drop us a line and share your own research and careers advice dementiaresearcher@nihr.ac.uk This podcast is brought to you in association with Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society and Race Against Dementia, who we thank for their ongoing support.

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The Art Sisters dig into Valentine's husband Jan Svihaleks' path and how that led him to Hill Country Blues and finding his niche.Recently, Jan assisted in managing and producing Kristi's EP album, Becoming Memories, and continues to be a musical mentor for her.Brno guitarist, singer, composer, and lyricist, Jan Švihálek. In 1995, he founded Hoochie Coochie Band, which is still active today, based mainly on the legacy of urban blues of the '50s. In the 1990's he was firmly rooted in the Brno experimental underground, participating in the Anna Burešová project. From 2006-2011, he was the guitarist for Nuck Chorris Gang, combining blues, hip hop, and rock into an energetic and humorous mix. Since 2015, he has led Band of Heysek, focused on original work influenced by the rawest offshoots of American blues, especially contemporary electrified similar so-called hill country blues from the Mississippi region. The group debuted in 2017 with the album, Shovel & Mattock, followed two years later by I'm Glad I Met You. In the spring of 2020, the album, Juke My Joint, was released. It was recorded with the legendary guitarist and singer RL Boyce, who was nominated for a Grammy in 2018. The highly acclaimed album, Bad Ideas, was released in Spring 2020, on which Švihálek's songs with Band of Heysek are played by guitarist Kenny Brown. Recently, he's been involved in creating music for film, including for the award-winning indie film Zvik Je Zelezna Hul from FoxyMon Production. In his non-musical life, Jan Švihálek is the director of the prestigious private school International School of Brno. He guest lectures on the history and presence of blues music at the Philosophical Faculty at Masaryk University.Listen to Band Of Heysek Herewww.indies.euwww.fatpossum.comwww.tinyurl.com/ArtSistersPodcast@artsisterspodcast@kristilei@bellavalentinaartSupport the show

On this episode, Professor of environmental chemistry Martin Sheringer joins Nate. Together, they discuss Sheringer's most recent paper on PFAS - the ‘forever chemicals, their ubiquity in waterways all over the globe, and their numerous critical health effects. More broadly, they outline the risks and scenarios of plastic pollution to planetary futures - and what we might do about it. Is it possible to live in a (mostly) plastic free world, and do we really have any other option? About Martin Sheringer Martin Scheringer is a professor of environmental chemistry at Masaryk University and works in the research program on Environmental Chemistry and Modeling at RECETOX. He holds a diploma in chemistry from the Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, and a doctoral degree and a habilitation from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland.

Miroslav Mares, Professor of Political Science at the Masaryk University in the Czech Repulbic, discusses disinformation and the Russia-Ukraine conflict - in the Czech context, including insight into drivers, mechanisms and responses.  Miroslav Mares on Russian disinformation  Miroslav Mares on responses to new security threats  For episode updates - follow on twitter: @jessicagenauer

Dr James Henderson is Director the Energy Transition Research Initiative and is Chairman of the Gas Research Programme at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES) from 2016, he has been writing for and working with the Institute since 2010. He produces research for both the Gas and Oil Programmes covering Russia and CIS issues as well as global energy matters that affect the region. He is a Visiting Professor at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic and has lectured on energy economics and security of supply at a number of universities in Europe and the US. He has worked in the oil sector for US company Amerada Hess, as well as spending time as a consultant and investment banker. DONATE TODAYA note from Lev:I am a high school teacher of history and economics at a public high school in NYC, and began the podcast to help demystify economics for teachers.  The podcast is now within the top 2.5% of podcasts worldwide in terms of listeners (per Listen Notes) and individual episodes are frequently listed by The Syllabus (the-syllabus.com) as among the 10 best political economy podcasts of a particular week.  The podcast is reaching thousands of listeners each month.  The podcast seeks to provide a substantive alternative to mainstream economics media; to communicate information and ideas that contribute to equitable and peaceful solutions to political and economic issues; and to improve the teaching of high school and university political economy. I am looking to be able to raise money in order to improve the technical quality of the podcast and website and to further expand the audience through professionally designed social media outreach. I am also hoping to hire an editor. Our goal is to raise $12,000 this year. If you can donate a few dollars each month it will help us reach that goal. And if you know of a family foundation that might be interested in donating to A Correction please be in touch. Thank you! (And a huge thank you to all of the people who have already supported the podcast!)Best, Lev

In this episode, we discuss not just how free journalists are across the globe, but how we can better understand the complications of journalistic autonomy. In other words, we ask, “What types of freedoms are there for journalists?” Guests include Cláudia Álvares, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at ISCTE: Lisbon University Institute in Portugal, who discusses “journalistic freedom” from political partisanship, while Signe Ivask, a Postdoctoral Researcher at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic, examines the role of journalistic autonomy and “freedom” in making tough editorial decisions, specifically in publishing visuals of violence and death. Basyouni Hamada, Professor in the Department of Mass Communication at Qatar University, in Qatar, also discusses of one of the most recognized aspects of journalistic freedom and autonomy – physical safety.Text Featured in this Episode:Alvares, C., Cardoso, G., Crespo, M., & Pinto-Martinho, A. (2021). Seeking the Legitimation of Mainstream Journalism: A Portuguese Case-Study. Journalism Practice, 1-16.Ivask, S., Laak, B., & Kuulpak, K. (2021). “All by Myself?” Journalists' Routines and Decision-making in Gathering and Publishing Death-related Visuals. Journalism Practice, 1-17.Hamada, B. I. (2021). Determinants of Journalists' Autonomy and Safety: Evidence from the Worlds of Journalism Study. Journalism Practice, 1-21.Produced and hosted by Robert (Ted) Gutsche, Jr.Give feedback to the podcast on Twitter @JournPractice or email jwordpodcast@gmail.com

A tour of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic.

A year after the UK withdrew from the structures of the European Single Market, the effects of Brexit are beginning to be felt. While the COVID19 pandemic and debates about the future of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to overshadow political life within the UK, the reconfiguration of the UK's relationship with the EU has also had a profound effect on relations between the UK and each of the EU's member states.  For some EU member states such as Czechia, that had developed a strong working relationship with the UK over security and trade issues, the deterioration of relations between the EU and UK has been a source of frustration. Exploring the particular perspectives of an EU state like Czechia can help provide insights into how Brexit and the internal tensions within the UK Union are perceived in the rest of Europe.To help examine how Czech society has responded to the changing relationship between the EU and the UK, in this week's episode we have been joined by  Monika Brusenbauch Meislová. As Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations and European Studies at Masaryk University,  she has developed fascinating research on how interactions between populism, technocracy and security have affected the politics of Czechia, the UK and other European states. This detailed analysis means Monika Brusenbauch Meislová is ideally placed to set out how Czechia and other EU states are responding to Brexit and wider challenges facing the UK. The background music is by Through the City by Crowander, and the production for this podcast was by Daniel Mansfield.    

— Past is a situation that we cannot change, and the future is unpredictable. The only thing that we can impact, and change is "now" therefore breathing is so important because it centers us in the present moment. We gain more trust in life by accepting the situation we face if we cannot change it or leave, and it is related to trusting the process. By loving ourselves despite hardships we honor our struggles, and this increases the trust in our abilities to handle the same situation again. On our way we can ask for help but at the end of the day it is on us to fight the battle and to live our life. As we go through life winning and losing, in other words as we become stronger, our trust in our abilities and skills grows and we start trust others and life more. The reward of trusting more in life is higher level of satisfaction, happiness, and better relationships. Working on your goals and living in alignment with your future leads to trusting more and discovering the true beauty of life. Life is simply more beautiful when we trust more in it. And I am sure you can do it. Valeria Teles interviews Silvie Francisci — a Life and Performance Coach, Project Manager, Teacher, Author, And Speaker. Silvie was a project manager, teacher, volunteer and piano player. She also works with who lived in other countries as she lived in 4 countries herself. Her goal is to give her coaching clients tools and build their confidence to turn their vision into reality. The purpose of her life is to be a curious, ambitious, energetic and joyful woman courageously leading with patience, igniting change in people's lives for them to live more meaningful and purposeful life they desire while supporting my dearest and closest with attention and love. Silvie is connecting with her community via biweekly newsletter, writes blog post and creates YouTube videos. You can find her on Instagram too. She has joined recently certified high-performance coaching programme to bring more purpose and meaning to her client's lives. Silvie graduated from Masaryk University with a MEc in economics and was a project manager before starting her coaching business. She enjoys yoga, playing badminton, dancing salsa, cooking Scotch eggs and adventure travel. She lives in Cambridge, UK. To learn more about Silvie Francisci and her work, please visit: silviefrancisci.com       — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well. 

In this episode of .think atlantic, IRI's Thibault Muzergues is joined by Vít Hloušek, a contemporary European history and politics professor in the Czech Republic to discuss the rise of entrepreneurial parties and their influence on European politics. Vít Hloušek is head of the Department of the International Institute of Political Science at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. He specializes in comparative political science research and has authored numerous publications, including The Rise of Entrepreneurial Parties in European Politics. His expertise on entrepreneurial politics directs the episode's discussion on the new phenomenon in politics and the intersection of business and political ideologies. What are entrepreneurial parties and where are they emerging from? What qualities do political entrepreneurs have that differ them from traditional party leaders? Are there any benefits to evolving politics to be more business-like? Are entrepreneurial parties only a product of right-wing politics? Does the rise of entrepreneurial parties indicate something more sinister about the rise of personal charisma as a definer of electoral politics? Thibault and his guest discuss these questions – and much more. Find Thibault on Twitter: @tmuzegues Visit IRI's website at www.iri.org Further reading: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030419158

From Brno: As the Czech Republic enters a new lockdown in March 2021, higher education continues to adapt to the online teaching environment. Commenting on the increasing global competition for online higher education, in particular for International Business programs, professor and vice-dean at Masaryk University gives her perspective from the Czech Republic. Guest: Dr. Sylva Talpova, Professor and Vice-Dean for External Relations and Partnerships at Faculty of Economics and Administration at Masaryk University, Brno.

In Central Europe, limited success in revisiting the role of science in the segregation of Roma reverberates with the yet-unmet call for contextualizing the impact of ideas on everyday racism. This book attempts to interpret such a gap as a case of epistemic injustice. It underscores the historical role of ideas in race-making and provides analytical lenses for exploring cross-border transfers of whiteness in Central Europe. In the case of Roma, the scientific argument in favor of segregation continues to play an outstanding role due to a long-term focus on the limited educability of Roma.  In Historicizing Roma in Central Europe: Between Critical Whiteness and Epistemic Injustice (Routledge, 2021), Victoria Shmidt and Bernadette N. Jaworsky trace the long-term interrelation between racializing Roma and the adaptation by Central European scholars of theories legitimizing segregation against those considered non-white, conceived as unable to become educated or "civilized." Along with legitimizing segregation, sterilization and even extermination, theorizing ineducability has laid the groundwork for negating the capacity of Roma as subjects of knowledge. Such negation has hindered practices of identity and quite literally prevented Roma in Central Europe from becoming who they are. This systematic epistemic injustice still echoes in contemporary attempts to historicize Roma in Central Europe. The authors critically investigate contemporary approaches to historicize Roma as reproducing whiteness and inevitably leading to various forms of epistemic injustice. The methodological approach herein conceptualizes critical whiteness as a practice of epistemic justice targeted at providing a sustainable platform for reflecting upon the impact of the past on the contemporary situation of Roma. Victoria Shmidt brings together the issue of historical roots of segregation with the legacy of colonial and socialist policies in Central Eastern European countries. Since 2019 Victoria leads the project "Race science: Undiscovered Power of building the nations" at the University of Graz. Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky is associate professor of sociology at Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic), and Faculty Fellow at Yale University's Center for Cultural Sociology.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Jana Nováková Stará is a researcher and lecturer promoting wellness in both the Czech Republic and abroad. She has a passion for different cultures and traditions related to healthy living. In the past years she has studied wellness practices and philosophies wherever she could - in Denmark, Turkey and the US. She is a certified Wellness Inventory Coach and assists future coaches from all around the world in their professional preparation. In the Czech Republic, Jana organizes international training courses for youth workers and teaches at Masaryk University in Brno, where she developed and delivers an experiential wellness course for Czech and international students. Jana founded the Czech Wellness Institute in 2019 with the aim to support, connect and empower wellness professionals across the country. The positive feedback from students, clients, educators and other wellness practitioners support Jana's belief that better times for European wellness are yet to come. With Jana we talked about her understanding of wellness and how to cultivate it through self-awareness. She gives us practical tips on how to bring more balance and ease to our lives, along with her story of founding the Czech Wellness Institute.

In this Open Pod episode, Ciara and Lucy interview Priya from Masaryk University, located in Brno (Czech Republic). Like many other medicine courses in Europe, Masaryk offers a 6 year medicine programme for international students that is taught in English. Students can apply to these international medicine courses off of UCAS (so it doesn't need to be one of your 4 medical school UCAS choices), and often with lower grades than required for UK medical schools. For example, Masaryk accepts students with a minimum A Levels of A (Chemistry), A (Biology), B (Physics or Mathematics) if they have passed their admissions test. Unlike the UCAT/BMAT, these are subject specific tests in biology, chemistry and maths or physics. Whilst European medical schools often have lower tuition fees than the UK, do remember that medicine courses abroad cannot be funded through student finance and so all fees must be self-funded. Most European medicine courses are recognised by the GMC but you must also complete an exam to be registered for practice in the UK. Listen to this episode to hear all about how students really find studying medicine abroad and get some top tips on how to apply! Comment any questions for Priya on her post on Instagram @howtobecomeadr!

This Ars Boni Episode consists of an interview with Professor Radim Polcak (https://www.muni.cz/en/people/21177-radim-polcak) from Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. Radim is Vice-rector for legal and policy affairs, information technologies and corporate relations and Department Head, Institute of Law and Technology, https://uptprfmu.weebly.com/. The conversation took place on July 15th 2020.

In her office we discussed: Jindřich Chalupecký Society, Ini Project, Artists exhibition fees, Liveable wages for artists, Not every artist and artwork is meant to be sold, How to finance art creation, Working Artists and the Greater Economy, Call Against Zero Wage in Prague: Art Workers' Organising in the Context of Eastern Europe, The myth of the starving artist, The need to pay creative professionals a living wage (at least), Know your value, The art grant system and how it is flawed, Be honest when you write grants, Grant writing, Art awards, Art competitions, Award judging, The politics of judging awards, The balance of aesthetics vs concept, The importance of an artist statement, Having a writer or curator write your artist statements, The need to be genuine in your artist statement, The need for artists to also be business people, Do not be a pushy artist, Anna Hulačová, Build your network, one thing leads to another. About: Karina Kottová (* 1984) has long been one of the most prominent curators of contemporary art in the Czech Republic. She is the founder of a number of smaller projects and curator with an international reach. Since 2015 he has been managing the Jindřich Chalupecký Society. Karina Kottová graduated in Art and Heritage from the University of Maastricht, then returned to Prague to gather experience as head of the education department at the Kampa Museum (2007–2009) and later at the DOX Center for Contemporary Art (2009–2012). It is precisely the emphasis on the role of mediation of contemporary art that has been traceable in Kott's projects from the beginning until today. He also became the subject of her dissertation (defended 2015 at Masaryk University in Brno, headed by doc. Ladislav Kesner Jr.) on the topic of Institution and Audience. Its starting point in relation to contemporary art was the workshops with artists organized by the UMA team: You Make Art (2008, today under the name UMA Audioguide). Together with Jana Babincová she founded the project to enable students or other interested people from the general public to meet personally with representatives of the contemporary art scene. Then Kottová collaborated on the foundation of the Bohnice Laundry Room in the Bohnice Medical Institution (2011–2015), the INI Project experimental space (from 2013 up to now) and the Věra Jirousová Award for Fine Arts Critics (since 2013 up to now). For the MeetFactory Center for Contemporary Art, where Kott replaced (2012–2015) as the curator of Dušan Zahoranský's gallery program, she has prepared exhibitions such as Opposite to Truth (2012, Anna Hulačová, Pavla Screanková, Iede Reckman, Derk Thijs, Erwin Wurm). Francis Alÿs, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Vojtěch Fröhlich, etc., Plato's Third Eye (2014, Matyáš Chochola, Kirstin Roepstorff, Pavel Sterec, Sinta Werner, etc.), 15,000 years of identity (2015, Matěj Smetana and Dan Perjovschi , collaboration with Jaro Varga) and a performance set in a site-specific installation by Jan Haubelt and Jiří Thýn A little worse than Romeo (2015, collaboration with Matěj Samec). Typical of these exhibitions was thematic framing with a slightly engaged subtext, space for associative thinking and interest in the irrational view of the world. As the director of the Jindřich Chalupecký Society, Kottová has been working for three years in addition to organizing the Jindřich Chalupecký Award on an intensive support program for the contemporary Czech art scene and its international contextualization, including through a foreign exhibition program. For example, she prepared an exhibition Don't Worry, Boy (2017) at the ForumBOX in Helsinki, which worked mainly with the authors who went through the Jindřich Chalupecký Award and Ripple Effect (together with Fatoş Üstek) in Futura, Prague. In 2018, he is preparing a laureate exhibition by Barbora Kleinhamlová (CJCh 2016) at the SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin or a solo exhibition by Kateřina Vincourová at the Katzen Ar...

In her office we discussed: Jindřich Chalupecký Society, Ini Project, Artists exhibition fees, Liveable wages for artists, Not every artist and artwork is meant to be sold, How to finance art creation, Working Artists and the Greater Economy, Call Against Zero Wage in Prague: Art Workers' Organising in the Context of Eastern Europe, The myth of the starving artist, The need to pay creative professionals a living wage (at least), Know your value, The art grant system and how it is flawed, Be honest when you write grants, Grant writing, Art awards, Art competitions, Award judging, The politics of judging awards, The balance of aesthetics vs concept, The importance of an artist statement, Having a writer or curator write your artist statements, The need to be genuine in your artist statement, The need for artists to also be business people, Do not be a pushy artist, Anna Hulačová, Build your network, one thing leads to another. About: Karina Kottová (* 1984) has long been one of the most prominent curators of contemporary art in the Czech Republic. She is the founder of a number of smaller projects and curator with an international reach. Since 2015 he has been managing the Jindřich Chalupecký Society. Karina Kottová graduated in Art and Heritage from the University of Maastricht, then returned to Prague to gather experience as head of the education department at the Kampa Museum (2007–2009) and later at the DOX Center for Contemporary Art (2009–2012). It is precisely the emphasis on the role of mediation of contemporary art that has been traceable in Kott's projects from the beginning until today. He also became the subject of her dissertation (defended 2015 at Masaryk University in Brno, headed by doc. Ladislav Kesner Jr.) on the topic of Institution and Audience. Its starting point in relation to contemporary art was the workshops with artists organized by the UMA team: You Make Art (2008, today under the name UMA Audioguide). Together with Jana Babincová she founded the project to enable students or other interested people from the general public to meet personally with representatives of the contemporary art scene. Then Kottová collaborated on the foundation of the Bohnice Laundry Room in the Bohnice Medical Institution (2011–2015), the INI Project experimental space (from 2013 up to now) and the Věra Jirousová Award for Fine Arts Critics (since 2013 up to now). For the MeetFactory Center for Contemporary Art, where Kott replaced (2012–2015) as the curator of Dušan Zahoranský's gallery program, she has prepared exhibitions such as Opposite to Truth (2012, Anna Hulačová, Pavla Screanková, Iede Reckman, Derk Thijs, Erwin Wurm). Francis Alÿs, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Vojtěch Fröhlich, etc., Plato's Third Eye (2014, Matyáš Chochola, Kirstin Roepstorff, Pavel Sterec, Sinta Werner, etc.), 15,000 years of identity (2015, Matěj Smetana and Dan Perjovschi , collaboration with Jaro Varga) and a performance set in a site-specific installation by Jan Haubelt and Jiří Thýn A little worse than Romeo (2015, collaboration with Matěj Samec). Typical of these exhibitions was thematic framing with a slightly engaged subtext, space for associative thinking and interest in the irrational view of the world. As the director of the Jindřich Chalupecký Society, Kottová has been working for three years in addition to organizing the Jindřich Chalupecký Award on an intensive support program for the contemporary Czech art scene and its international contextualization, including through a foreign exhibition program. For example, she prepared an exhibition Don't Worry, Boy (2017) at the ForumBOX in Helsinki, which worked mainly with the authors who went through the Jindřich Chalupecký Award and Ripple Effect (together with Fatoş Üstek) in Futura, Prague. In 2018, he is preparing a laureate exhibition by Barbora Kleinhamlová (CJCh 2016) at the SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin or a solo exhibition by Kateřina Vincourová at the Katzen Ar...

In his publishing offices we spoke about: Art Auction Houses, The secondary market for living artists, Auction house percentages, Pricing of art, The secondary art market, Art magazines, Nationalism in the Arts, How magazines choose what exhibitions to review, The choice to only interview an artist once in their career, Online subscriptions and paywalls, Making a magazine into something more elegant and desirable, Magazines as an experience, How to design a website for a publication, Statistical data of art sales, The return on investment of art, Data manipulation, Percent of secondary sales at auction that go to artists, Criticism as a sign of respect, The need for art criticism, and the only thing worse than being talked poorly about is not being talked about at all. http://artplus.cz   About Jan Skřivánek (born 1977) is a graduate of Art and History at Masaryk University in Brno and Media Studies at Charles University in Prague. Between 2007 and 2017, he was editor-in-chief of Art + Antiques magazine, and is now the publisher of Ambit Media. In addition to Art + Antiques, he oversees the operation of the auction results database and the artplus.cz portal and coordinates the Art Week festival. In 2012–2014 he was a member of the Grant Committee of the City of Prague for culture and art. In 2013–2015 he was a member of the dramaturgical council of the Czech Centers and the advisory and acquisition commission of the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art of the National Gallery in Prague. He is a member of the civic association Artalk, which operates the portal of the same name. Please be sure to visit our Patreon page and help support the podcast by being part of the conversation. The more money raised, the larger the global reach we can offer you: https://www.patreon.com/thewisefool For more information about the host, Matthew Dols http://www.matthewdols.com

In his publishing offices we spoke about: Art Auction Houses, The secondary market for living artists, Auction house percentages, Pricing of art, The secondary art market, Art magazines, Nationalism in the Arts, How magazines choose what exhibitions to review, The choice to only interview an artist once in their career, Online subscriptions and paywalls, Making a magazine into something more elegant and desirable, Magazines as an experience, How to design a website for a publication, Statistical data of art sales, The return on investment of art, Data manipulation, Percent of secondary sales at auction that go to artists, Criticism as a sign of respect, The need for art criticism, and the only thing worse than being talked poorly about is not being talked about at all. http://artplus.cz   About Jan Skřivánek (born 1977) is a graduate of Art and History at Masaryk University in Brno and Media Studies at Charles University in Prague. Between 2007 and 2017, he was editor-in-chief of Art + Antiques magazine, and is now the publisher of Ambit Media. In addition to Art + Antiques, he oversees the operation of the auction results database and the artplus.cz portal and coordinates the Art Week festival. In 2012–2014 he was a member of the Grant Committee of the City of Prague for culture and art. In 2013–2015 he was a member of the dramaturgical council of the Czech Centers and the advisory and acquisition commission of the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art of the National Gallery in Prague. He is a member of the civic association Artalk, which operates the portal of the same name. Please be sure to visit our Patreon page and help support the podcast by being part of the conversation. The more money raised, the larger the global reach we can offer you: https://www.patreon.com/thewisefool For more information about the host, Matthew Dols http://www.matthewdols.com

Caroline:              Welcome to Circulation On The Run! Your weekly podcast, summary, and backstage pass to The Journal and it's editors. I'm Doctor Carolyn Lam, Associate Editor from the National Heart Center in Duke National University of Singapore. What does the gut microbiome have to do with Cardiovascular Disease? Well to find out you'll just have to stay tuned for our featured discussion debate. First, here's our summary of this week's journal.                                 The first paper seeks to answer the question "does first trimester screening modify the natural history of Congenital Heart Disease?" To answer this question Doctor Jasinskyl and colleagues from the University Hospital in Masaryk University in the Czech Republic, analyze the spectrum of congenital heart defects and outcomes of 127 fetuses diagnosed with congenital heart defects in the first trimester compared to 344 fetuses diagnosed in the second trimester screening. All of these analyzed between 2007 and 2013.                                 They found that the spectrum of congenital heart defects diagnosed in the first versus second trimesters differed significantly with a greater number of comorbidities, defects with univentricular outcomes, intrauterine deaths, and terminations of pregnancy in those diagnosed in the first compared to second trimester.                                 They further analyze 532 fetuses diagnosed with congenital heart defects in the second trimester but in an earlier period of 1996 to 2001, which is the period before first trimester screening was introduced. In this group they found significantly more cases of defects with univentricular outcomes, intrauterine deaths, and early terminations of pregnancy. In comparison to fetuses also diagnosed with congenital defects in the second trimester but in the later period of 2007 to 2013.                                 Thus, the authors concluded that first trimester screening had a significant impact on the spectrum of congenital heart defects and on the outcomes of pregnancies with defects diagnosed in the second trimester. Early prenatal cardiac ultrasound screening may therefore, in some countries, reduce the number of children born with severe cardiac abnormalities and associated comorbidities.                                 The next study sheds light on the use of intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator, or "RTPA," in patients with acute ischemic stroke also receiving no wax or the newer oral anticoagulants. Doctor Sienne and colleagues from the Duke Clinical Research Institute in Durham, North Carolina use data from the American Heart Association "Get With The Guidelines" stroke registry in 42,887 ischemic stroke patients treated with RTPA at 1,289 hospitals in the United States between 2012 and 2015. They basically found no statistically significant differences in the risk of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage between patients who were taking Noac, Warfarin, or not taking any anticoagulant before the stroke.                                 This largest clinical experience of stroke thrombolysis in patients receiving Noac before the strokes thus suggest that RTPA is reasonably well tolerated without prohibitive risks for adverse events amongst selected Noac treated patients. However, the authors are quick to say that their observations must be considered as preliminary due to the absence of coagulation parameters, timing of the last Noac intake, and whether or not non-specific reversal strategies may have been applied.                                 The next paper provides experimental evidence of the unique effects of plasminogen activation and Alpha 2 antiplasmin inactivation on the fibrinolytic system in pulmonary embolism. In this paper from Dr Sing, Hong, and Reed from the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center in Memphis, Tennessee the authors use mouse models of experimental pulmonary emboli to show that monoclonal antibody inactivation of Alpha 2 antiplasmin, which is an endogenous inhibitor of plasmin, effectively dissolved pulmonary emboli with similar potency to high dose RTPA.                                 Alpha 2 antiplasmin inactivation synergize with low dose RTPA to enhance thrombus dissolution. And like RTPA, Alpha 2 antiplasmin inactivation alone or in combination with low dose RTPA, did not cause fibrinogen degradation or increased bleeding. The authors therefore concluded that Alpha 2 anti plasmin is a dominant regulator that prohibits thrombus dissolution in vivo.                                 Therapeutic modulation of Alpha 2 antiplasmin activity may therefore prove an effective strategy to enhance fibrinolysis without significantly increasing the bleeding risk. These results are discussed in an accompanied editorial by Doctor Yurano from Hamamatsu University School of Medicine in Japan.                                 More exciting experimental data in the next paper showing that novel beta arrestin signaling pathways may be viable targets in dilated cardiomyopathy. First author Doctor Reba, corresponding author Dr Solaro, and colleagues from University of Illinois at Chicago treated a dilated cardiomyopathy mouse model expressing a mutant tropomyosin for three months with either a beta-arrestins two biased ligand of the entertance and receptor or losartan and angiotensin receptor blocker as control. Treated mice showed improved cardiac structure and function associated with myofilamins that had significantly improved myofilament calcium responsiveness. Which was depressed in the untreated mice.                                 These functional changes were mediated through beta arrestin which may have a novel role in increasing MLC2V phosphorylation through a previously unrecognized interaction of beta arrestin localized to the sarcamore. Thus, long term beta arrestin 2 biased agnonism of the angiotensin receptor may be a viable approach to the treatment of dilated cardiomyopathy. Not only by preventing maladaptive signaling but also by improving cardiac function by altering the myofilament calcium response via beta-arrestin signaling pathways. The concept of a two in one angiotensin receptor blocker and calcium sensitizer is discussed in accompanying editorial by Doctors Wu, Ju, and Siao from Peking university in China.                                 The final paper asks the question "are three arterial graphs better than two coronary artery bypass grafting?" Doctor Galdino and colleagues from Weill Cornell Medicine in New York performed a meta analysis of eight propensity score matched observational studies on more than 10,000 matched patients comparing the long term outcomes coronary artery bypass grafting with the use of two verses three arterial graphs.                                 They found that the use of a third arterial condo et in bypass grafting is a associated with superia long term survival irrespective of sex and diabetes status and without a higher operative risk. These results therefore support a strategy of the use of a third arterial graph and really deserve confirmation in prospective randomized trials. Well, that's it for the summaries. Let's welcome our guests.                                 Our topic for discussion today is so exciting. In fact, I am going to read from the paper describing it as an exciting, new, and important field of investigation where we start to understand how nutrition, our gut micro-community composition, and our genetics actually all play a part in Cardiovascular Disease. And to discuss this paper I have the first and corresponding author Doctor Wilson Tang from Cleveland Clinic Foundation as well as Doctor Nikhil Munshi, Associate Editor from UT Southwestern. Welcome Wilson and Nik! Nik:                        Thank you. Wilson:                 Thank you. Caroline:              Wilson, please set the stage for us! What does our gut microbiome have to do with cardiovascular disease? I agree it's a hot area but, you know, could you just describe what it actually means. Wilson:                 This has been somewhat of an accidental discovery from our group when we start encountering different types of metabolites that we measure to kind of associate them with Cardiovascular Disease. And unbeknownst to us, some of them are produced by the bacteria that live inside us to which we convert and try to eliminate. So one such metabolite that we identify is, which in many of the foods that we tell our patients, advise our patients that have high risk of Cardiovascular Disease. So all these connections come together to form a scientific basis to which how one of the biggest environmental exposures that we have which is what we eat every day is filtered by trillions of bacteria that live inside us and many of these metabolites become hormones that effect our every day function and activity.                                 And, in many ways, can actually lead to diseases that are so remote from the gut but such as Cardiovascular Disease, Atherosclerosis, and we further identify these process and they impact downstream organ function like heart function and kidney function. So these are all very excited areas and this is just one of several metabolites. There are other metabolites that also impact blood pressure and even brain function and so all these areas become kind of a new avenue for us to look at potential therapeutic targets. Caroline:              Yeah I think it's so completely fascinating that we can actually each experience a given meal differently based on the different types of gut microbial communities in our bodies isn't it? And that that actually can effect things all the way from atheroscleroses, to obesity, insulin resistance, and so on. Could you give us a specific example from your research? Wilson:                 We actually identified a metabolite, a very small molecule called Trimethylamine N-oxide, we abbreviate it as TMAO. And TMAO is actually formed from the bacteria from a precursor called Trigosamine which is, you know, gas. In other words, the bacteria taken substances of nutrients such as choline and connetine which is actually common in many foods but particularly in red meats, in egg yolks, and many other foods that we know are potential contributors to Cardiovascular Disease.                                 And actually converted into this gaseous compound that our liver converted into a neutral compound, that we think is neutral for a long time and nitrogenous waste, except that when we have both animal studies and human studies patients with high levels of this TMAO metabolite has been associated with a high risk of Cardiovascular Disease. And in fact in animal studies we have direct evidence that show its contributing to the mechanistic compartment. Caroline:              Now extrapolating from what you just said so vegetarians, for example, or vegans even more so, would have less TMAO levels then? Wilson:                 Yeah, obviously there are wide variation in these levels actually change almost by the minute because obviously we eat different times of the day and it comes in and out of our bodies. But in general, yes, in other studies that we actually identified a higher level of in carnivores which are meat eaters verses vegans and vegetarians who do not eat meat. Wilson:                 Yeah and we actually use... I sort of labeled choline and connetine to actually directly show that the synthesis of TMA and TMAO by a labeled connetine is higher in meat eaters, carnivores, verses vegetarian or vegans. Caroline:              Oh, I really have to ask both you Wilson and Nik the following question then. What do you think is the, you know, take home message? How do you apply this clinically and even more cheeky, perhaps, how are you applying this in your own life? I mean with this knowledge have you become vegetarian? I'm putting you on the spot here. Wilson:                 I think this is basically a very scientific demonstration of how what we eat does impact our every day bodily function. And I think many cultures have this identification. Obviously many Asian cultures have seen the impact of food. In fact, it actually opens entire insight into how different medicinal food may actively be impacting the gut microbiome that actually creates different effects in the body. But in terms of diet and nutrients, yeah I have totally have eaten less meat in my every day dietary habits.                                 I definitely think it's something that is certainly quite insightful and probably very impactful. That being said, I think different cultures also have different populations of microbiome and I think it's not a one size fits all. In fact I think every individual has his own dynamic ranges and we are still in the very very first early stage of understanding how this impact helps in disease. So there's a lot of excitement and there's a lot of technology that hopefully can help us to unravel this mystery. Caroline:              Exactly, a new and important field just like you said. Nik, what do you think? Nik:                        From my standpoint, I'm actually not a big meat-eater so this was very welcomed news when this all came out. But, you know, from another standpoint it really opens up a lot of new questions. You know, it kind of blurs the line between sort of genetics and environmental factors. You know, so the questions of maybe a family who shares certain genetic traits may also share certain environmental traits. In other words, they share certain gut microbial components and maybe this sort of complicates how we're going to disentangle some of these risk factors going forward. I'm interested to get Wilson's take on this. Wilson:                 Yeah it gives us a lot of insight to the I guess what happens is the microbiome is isolated in the family lineage because the lifestyle exposure are very similar in each household. So, what we thought is inherent is being inherited from both the genomic but also a microbiome perspective. Caroline:              Nik, you manage this paper. I really love, for example, that figure which I think everyone should get ahold of the journal and have a look at. Could you tell us a little bit more about this category of papers? Wilson:                 I'm sort of charged with this task of bringing sort of basic Science across the aisle to clinicians so that we can all sort of talk the same language and perhaps interact on a higher level. And so I was really excited reading some of Wilson's work and you know I really wanted to bring that to some of our broad readership just so that we could sort of appreciate what sort of science was going and I really think that this is a really great example of something that's on the verge of being translated.                                 You know you can imagine that by either effecting certain metabolite compositions or maybe by treating certain subsets of bacteria we may be able to influence long term cardiovascular risks not to mention obesity, diabetes, and some of these other diseases that Wilson is actively working on. So I really read this with a lot of excitement and I wanted to bring this to a broader audience and you know we have a number of other articles that are in the pipeline that I think will serve to bridge this gap and put us on the same field so that we can kind of speak the same language. Caroline:              Wilson, did you have a good time sort of writing something like this its not long. Wilson:                 It's actually very difficult. In fact, its just like writing poetry. You know it's hard to write in simple and short sentences. So it actually was a big challenge for me and I really thank the opportunity to be able to do that but I also want to emphasize I think it was a very insightful experience for me too. Because as a practicing physician and a commissioned scientist don't always merge these too few, these two areas in a way to actually see the importance we like to learn the science and try to explore I think clinicians really need to take charge and learn exciting science that's occurring. I think this is a wonderful avenue and I applaud [inaudible 00:18:10] for setting this radio [inaudible 00:18:11] Caroline:              Well listeners you heard it first here on Circulation On The Run it is poetry by Wilson Tang. 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