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Flu Vaccines: Advancements, Challenges, and Global Impact – Expert Insights on Vaccine Platforms and Immune ResponsesIn this phenomenal episode, three leading experts in the field of vaccinology and immunology dive into the science behind various vaccine platforms and immune responses. Tune in as they explore the evolution of vaccines, from early, early vaccine platforms to cutting-edge technologies, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.  In a dynamic, educational conversation, we hear about the quest for the holy grail, the crucial role of CD8 T-cells, and the global challenges of vaccine accessibility and hesitancy.Join Professor Ab Osterhaus, ESWI Executive Committee Member and Director of the Center of Infection Medicine and Zoonosis Research at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany; ESWI Board Member Florian Krammer, Professor of Vaccinology at the Department of Microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, and Professor for Infection Biology at the Medical University of Vienna; and ESWI Associate Member Carolien van de Sandt, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Peter Doherty Institute, Australia in this thought-provoking discussion on the future of vaccines and global health.With the support of Moderna and Viatris.

In this week's episode Sharon Lewin, director of The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, talks about what she learnt about leading during a time of crisis and uncertainty following the tragedy of flight MH17, how those skills equipped her to lead through COVID-19 and the advice she would give her younger self. This podcast is sponsored by Aussie Broadband See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode of HIV unmuted introduces a new host and format for the award-winning IAS podcast. Our host, Juan Michael Porter II, the Senior Editor for TheBody/TheBodyPro, takes a deep dive with a single guest in an intimate conversation that gives the listener a glimpse of the guest – who they are and how they got into this work – and an understanding of their topic of expertise.   This new format opens with Sharon Lewin, the IAS President and AIDS 2024 International Co-Chair, walking us through the latest HIV science released at AIDS 2024, the 25th International AIDS Conference, and what it means for the HIV response. This episode delves into a broad range of exciting science, from long-acting injectables to new research on doxycycline prophylaxis to advances in cure research, including inspiration from the “next Berlin Patient”.  Through the lens of her personal story, Sharon walks us through the context and challenges of the HIV response, such as changing global health priorities and reduced funding for HIV. Astounding progress has been made in the HIV response. Yet, we are still missing critical targets. Sharon makes it clear that if we are to envision the end of the HIV pandemic, we must address persisting inequalities that remain in the HIV response: we must put people first. Meet our guest Sharon LewinThe IAS President and AIDS 2024 International Co-Chair, Sharon Lewin, is an infectious diseases physician and basic scientist and has worked in HIV-related clinical medicine and research for over 25 years. She is Director of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, a joint venture of the University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. The Doherty Institute has over 850 staff working on infection and immunity through research, education and public health, and has a significant focus on virology, including HIV. She is an active clinician, working at the Alfred Hospital and Royal Melbourne Hospital, and a Melbourne Laureate Professor of Medicine at the University of Melbourne.    Meet our host Juan Michael Porter II Juan Michael Porter II is a health journalist, HIV advocate, culture critic, educator and the host of HIV unmuted, the IAS podcast. He is the Senior Editor of TheBody.com and TheBodyPro – and the first person openly living with HIV to hold the position. Juan Michael's reportage combines data dives, personal narratives and policy analyses to address the real-world consequences of ever-shifting legislation on people's health outcomes. He has written for the Public Broadcasting Service, SF Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, Christian Science Monitor, NY Observer, TDF Stages, Playbill, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Queerty, Anti-Racism Daily, Positively Aware, Documentary Magazine, SYFY Wire, Scholastic and Dance Magazine.  

Do not miss the opportunity to listen to this enthusiastic and insightful conversation between Debby van Riel, Associate Professor, Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, The Netherlands, Carolien van de Sandt, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Peter Doherty Institute, Australia, and Jenna Guthmiller Assistant Professor at the Department of Immunology and Microbiology from University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, US,  examine the joys and sprrows of embarking on a scientific career. How does the real-life experience of working as a scientist compare to your initialExpectations? What are the typical challenges encountered by early career scientists? What advice would you give to someone considering a career in science? Looking ahead, what are the big questions that you want to address? What advice would you give to someone considering a career in science?

Welcome to the 4th episode of the 2023 BMJ Sexually Transmitted Infections Podcast Series. This year the International AIDS Society Conference was held for the first time in Brisbane Australia in July 2023. It was wonderful to learn about many new research findings, community perspectives and to connect with old friends and make new ones. Today we will provide you with some of the many clinical, vaccine and policy research highlights of this conference and share our subjective perspectives. We were joined by: Dr Ming Lee, a sexual health & HIV physician and UK MRC Clinical Research Training Fellow at Imperial College London, London, UK, Prof Damian Purcell, Head of the Molecular Virology Laboratory in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Peter Doherty Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Dr Meg Doherty, Director of Global HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infection Programmes at World Health Organization, Heath Quarter. Hosted by: Dr Fabiola Martin, the BMJ STI Podcast editor and Sexual Health Specialist based in Australia and lecturer at School of Public Health at University of Queensland.

Can we develop allergies as an adult? Can we overcome our allergies? How long does it take to create a vaccine? And how does DNA work? Dr. Catriona Nguyen-Robertson answers these questions as we talk about the science of immunology, focusing on how those concepts can be shared to a wide audience through creative expression!You can watch the video version of the podcast here: https://youtu.be/ByyAjwC-gXADr Catriona Nguyen-Robertson trained as an immunologist at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, and now teaches Science Communication at the University of Melbourne and is a Learning Facilitator at Scienceworks. Check out Catriona's website: nyuroscientist.comYou can also find Catriona on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/catrionaNRand on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nyuroscientistGet guest updates and submit your listener questions via Instagram: https://instagram.com/travellingscience/During this episode, a donation was made to Deadly Science, a foundation that provides science resources to remote schools in Australia that are often under funded: https://deadlyscience.org.au/If you'd like to support this podcast and the charities we donate to each week, you can make a contribution here: https://www.patreon.com/thetravellingscientistThank you for making a positive change in the world!

In this episode of HIV unmuted, the award-winning IAS podcast, we take a deep dive into the breaking science being released at IAS 2023 and explain why these breakthroughs are so important for people living with and affected by HIV.   Set in Australia, a country that is closing in on the elimination of HIV transmission, the conference highlights the latest research, including more hope for an HIV cure, expanding prevention options and insights into mpox. Guests also give us insight into exciting studies on prevention strategies for cardiovascular disease and post-treatment control of HIV in children who are treated early on.   These studies move us in the right direction. Yet, as our last guest makes clear, scientific advances alone can only get us so far. We must address persisting inequalities that remain in the HIV response. And we must put people first.   Meet our guests: Gracia Violeta Ross Quiroga, Programme Executive at the World Council of Churches, describes the potential life-changing impact the cutting-edge research has on herself and other people living with HIV. She tells us what it was like to grow up in a conservative Bolivia in the early 2000s without access to life-saving HIV treatment. Sharon Lewin, IAS President, IAS 2023 International Co-Chair and Director of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, helps us understand the scientific significance of the breaking science.   James Ward, a Pitjantjatjara and Nukunu man, who is also an infectious diseases epidemiologist and the Director of the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health at the University of Queensland, tells us why the latest science doesn't always reach vulnerable communities. 

On the 28th of January 2022 a 75-year-old man was admitted to the regional Albury Wodonga Health Service with a high fever and Parkinsonian symptoms. The patient spent over a week in intensive care, but brain scans did not reveal an obvious aetiology and assays for a range of pathogens came up negative.When serology eventually revealed the presence of antibodies against Japanese encephalitis virus this became only the second ever locally-acquired case on Australia's mainland. Even more startling was the fact that the previous one had been way back in 1998 in Cape York, far north Queensland. The Victorian patient was the first what would become an outbreak of 43 symptomatic human cases that resulted in six deaths. The JE virus would be detected in all mainland states and retrospectively linked to another fatality in March 2021 from the Tiwi islands of the Northern Territory. In this podcast we hear about the confluence of factors that brought a classically tropical disease to the southern states. The story is told from the perspective of the treating clinicians, microbiology specialist and public health physician who started putting the puzzle together from four sentinel cases. Key ReferenceSamuel Thorburn, Deborah Friedman, John Burston, Paul M Kinsella, Genevieve E Martin, Deborah Williamson, Justin Jackson. Sentinel cluster of locally acquired Japanese encephalitis in southern Australia. Internal Medicine Journal. 2023;53(5):835-840Member access to Internal Medicine Journal, Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health and Occupational Medicine JournalGuestsAdjunct Associate Professor Ian Woolley FRACP (Monash Infectious Diseases; Monash University) Dr Justin Jackson FRACP (Albury Wodonga Health)Dr Sam Thorburn (Austin Health)Dr Paul Kinsella (Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity)Associate Professor Deborah Friedman FRACP (Victorian Department of Health; Deakin University)ProductionProduced by Mic Cavazzini DPhil. Music licenced from Epidemic Sound includes ‘Dusty Delta Day' and ‘Hard Shoulder' by Lennon Hutton. Image from Smith Collection/ Gado licenced from Getty Images. Editorial feedback kindly provided by Dr Aidan Tan. Please visit the Pomegranate Health web page for a transcript and supporting references. Login to MyCPD to record listening and reading as a prefilled learning activity. Subscribe to new episode email alerts or search for ‘Pomegranate Health' in Apple Podcasts, Spotify,Castbox, or any podcasting app. 

Dr Lou Cooper, Counselling Psychologist and Director of Talking Emotions, discusses the benefits and practice of emotion-focused therapy; Dr Andrew Buultjens, Postdoctoral Research Scientist at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, unpacks the causes, symptoms, and treatment of buruli ulcers; and the team canvass text-based healthcare consults. With presenters Dr Nick, Prudence Dear, and Dr Sonia.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/radiotherapyFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/RadiotherapyOnTripleR/Twitter: https://twitter.com/_radiotherapy_Instagram: https://instagram.com/radiotherapy_tripler

Podcast Episode 97Professor Sharon Lewin AO FRACP FAHMSSharon Lewin is a remarkable woman. For a start, she has been heading up two global pandemics. Simultaneously.  In 1989 Dr Lewin (as she then was), instead of seeking a medical appointment in some prestigious city hospital, chose to work in a small hospital in Kenya. It was here she became passionate about infectious diseases, specifically HIV. And it would be a path she continues to tread to this day. She's determined to find the cure.  In 2014, she was appointed Director of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity and her research focuses on why HIV persists, and on developing clinical trials aimed at finding that cure. She's delivered more than 100 talks internationally and has published 280-plus papers. Whilst doing all that her other role in this field is as the President of the International Aids Society. A huge organisation which ‘convenes, educates and advocates for a world in which HIV no longer presents a threat to public health and individual well-being.' I believe there are about 14,000 members of the IAS.Oh, she's also been a leader and spokesperson for the Covid response since about January 2020 when her team were the 1st in the world to isolate, grow and then share the virus with other nations. Her ongoing education of others in this area has been a much wanted voice of reason with a steadying hand on the tiller. It was a privilege having a conversation with someone so focussed on helping humanity. It was an informative, down to earth and, at times, very funny chat.Head to the podcast to have a listen. The link is in my bio.Visit instagram @reallyinterestingwomen for further interviews and posts of interesting women in history. Follow the link to leave a review....and tell your friendshttps://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/really-interesting-women/id1526764849If you know of a potential guest or interesting woman in history, email me atreallyinterestingwomen@gmail.com

 In this episode, 2 Australian HIV experts share their thoughts on some of the most important HIV insights gained during the past year in the context of HIV care in Australia.Specifically, the faculty discuss the continued dominance of second-generation INSTI-based regimens as mainstay HIV therapy in Australia, including in both 2-drug and 3-drug oral regimens; the emergence of 2-drug long-acting injectable therapy as a switch strategy; key aspects of successfully expanded oral PrEP programs in the region; the potential role of long-acting injectable PrEP; and key new advances in HIV cure research.  Presenters:Sharon R. Lewin, AO, FRACP, PhD, FAHMSDirector, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and ImmunityProfessor of Infectious DiseasesUniversity of Melbourne  Consultant Infectious Diseases PhysicianAlfred Hospital and Royal Melbourne Hospital  Melbourne, AustraliaDon Smith, MDConjoint ProfessorSchool of Population MedicineUniversity of New South WalesSenior Staff SpecialistAlbion CentreSouth Eastern Sydney Local Health NetworkSydney, AustraliaContent based on an online program supported by an independent educational grant from Gilead Sciences, Inc. and ViiV Healthcare.  Link to full program:http://bit.ly/3YD8T4E  

A new centre funded by the biggest ever donation to Australian medical research will be set up in Melbourne to prepare the world better for future pandemics. The Global Centre for Pandemic Therapeutics - initially based in the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity - will fast-track the design and development of life-saving treatments.

Dr. Laura Mackay is a Professor and Laboratory Head at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne. She talks about her tissue-resident memory T cell research and her ongoing collaboration with Pfizer to identify and validate new targets for cancer therapy.

The Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security has begun a series of roundtables across the country on Future Funding Priorities. At the recent roundtable in Melbourne Robin Davies, First Assistant Secretary of the Global Health Division at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Head of the Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security, spoke to Professor Jodie McVernon, the Director of Epidemiology at the The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity. Professor McVernon has become a leading voice on disease spread and control during the COVID-19 pandemic. The conversation follows her work at The Doherty Institute and the Institute's ongoing partnerships with DFAT. Professor McVernon talks about how DFAT and the Doherty Institute worked together to help governments in the Indo-Pacific track and respond to COVID.Professor McVernon explains how DFAT and the Doherty Institute's data for decision making partnership helped strengthen systems and inform clinical decision making, such as where in PNG the government needed to deploy its limited supply of oxygen. It's an important conversation as we look to the next stage of our work in the region.  Learn more about Professor McVernon's work on the Doherty Institute's website and the SPARK investment page.

In this episode, Sharon R. Lewin, AO, FRACP, PhD, FAHMS, discusses:  Principles for antiviral agent use in nonhospitalized patientsPreferred and alternative treatment optionsTreatment prioritization when there are logistical or supply constraintsOutpatient remdesivir usePINETREE data (adult patients)CARAVAN data (pediatric patients)FDA approval and treatment candidacyTherapeutic updatesIvermectin and the TOGETHER studyMonoclonal antibody use during current omicron eraPresenter:  Sharon R. Lewin, AO, FRACP, PhD, FAHMSZDirector, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and ImmunityProfessor of Infectious DiseasesUniversity of MelbourneConsultant Infectious Diseases PhysicianAlfred Hospital and Royal Melbourne HospitalMelbourne, AustraliaReview the downloadable slideset at:https://bit.ly/3FXc90w 

Just when you thought talking about viruses was a thing of the past, a new illness spread through mosquito bites has resurfaced in Australia amid all of the wet and humid weather. Japanese Encephalitis was first discovered over 100 years ago, but its sudden resurgence particularly down the east coast is causing some concern among the scientific community and the public, but how worried should you be? The Quicky speaks to two experts in infectious diseases to learn more about Japanese Encephalitis Virus or 'JEV' as it's also known, to find out how widespread it could become, and whether you need to ask for a vaccine to keep you and your family safe. CREDITS  Host: Claire Murphy With thanks to: Professor Jason Mackenzie - International expert on flavivirus and norovirus replication and pathogenesis at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity Dr Michelle Giles - Professor and clinical appointments at Alfred Health, Monash Health and the Royal Women's Hospital, and an Infectious Diseases Physician  Producer: Claire Murphy Executive Producer: Siobhán Moran-McFarlane Audio Producer: Jacob Round Subscribe to The Quicky at... https://mamamia.com.au/the-quicky/ CONTACT US Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us an email at thequicky@mamamia.com.au GET IN TOUCH: Feedback? We're listening! Call the pod phone on 02 8999 9386 or email us at podcast@mamamia.com.au Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. Just by reading or listening to our content, you're helping to fund girls in schools in some of the most disadvantaged countries in the world - through our partnership with Room to Read. We're currently funding 300 girls in school every day and our aim is to get to 1,000. Find out more about Mamamia at mamamia.com.au  Support the show: https://www.mamamia.com.au/mplus/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Sharon R. Lewin, AO, FRACP, PhD, FAHMS, discusses what is known about the SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant, including:Transmissibility and infectiousness Immune evasionDisease severity Risks of hospitalization and death  Vaccine effectiveness  2- vs 3-dose vaccine effectivenessT-cell responsePresenter:  Sharon R. Lewin, AO, FRACP, PhD, FAHMSDirector, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and ImmunityProfessor of Infectious DiseasesUniversity of MelbourneConsultant Infectious Diseases PhysicianAlfred Hospital and Royal Melbourne HospitalMelbourne, AustraliaReview the downloadable slidesets at:https://bit.ly/32tp2BThttps://bit.ly/3JKyNLW Link to full program:https://bit.ly/3Ix8uZg  

Laura Turner chats with Laureate Professor Peter Doherty from the The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity.Laureate Professor Peter Doherty (as he himself puts it in his new book) is in the ‘infectious disease and death game'. In 1996 he and a colleague won a Nobel Prize for discovering how our immune cells destroy deadly viruses – it was ground-breaking research that would go on to revolutionise the field of immunology.In early 2020 he was all set to slip into retirement mode when the Coronavirus catapulted the world into chaos and propelled scientists into the battle to protect the community and find a vaccine for COVID 19.Peter's latest book is An Insiders Plague Year - details HERE. Great Australian Lives is proudly supported by Tobin Brothers Funerals and produced, engineered and edited by Jane Nield for Sports Entertainment Network.

In this episode we're so excited to introduce you to Catriona Nguyen-Robertson who is a singing scientist: she sings in the laboratory and dreams up immunology experiments in the shower. She is a researcher at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, studying the immune response in skin allergies. An advocate for diversity in STEM, she is Secretary of the Pride in Action Network, and was Vice-President of Women in Science and Engineering at The University of Melbourne. Catriona is also an enthusiastic science communicator. She is part of the Science Communication Teaching Team at The University of Melbourne and a Learning Facilitator with Museums Victoria. She also works as the Science Communications Officer for the Royal Society of Victoria and Convergence Science Network, and is Associate Editor of the Immunology and Cell Biology scientific journal. She regularly engages with science mentoring and outreach programs, such as Skype a Scientist, Pint of Science, In2Science, BrainSTEM, and the Gene Technology Access Centre – sharing science online, in pubs, and in schools across Victoria and the world. You can follow Catriona and find out more about her work here: https://twitter.com/CatrionaNR https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_NtXSj9jH06SHNmsKhyfuQ (Nyuroscientist) https://www.instagram.com/nyuroscientist/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/catrionanguyen-robertson/ Transcript: https://go.unimelb.edu.au/jy8e

 Vol 215, Issue 11: 22 November 2021. Associate Professor Sheena Sullivan is Head of Epidemiology at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, at the Peter Doherty Institute. She talks about the impact of opening the international borders on influenza cases and severity this coming summer. To accompany her editorial at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/216/1/preparing-out-season-influenza-epidemics-when-international-travel-resumes, and research by Marsh et al, at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/216/1/drivers-summer-influenza-epidemic-new-south-wales-2018-19 ... with MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Pfizer Booster shots will be made available shortly and we will be receiving them six months after our second shot. Professor Damien Purcell, Head of Molecular Virology at the Peter Doherty Institute from the Uni of Melbourne joined Matthew.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 Vol 215, Issue 5: 30 August 2021. The winners of the MJA/MDA National Prize for Excellence in Medical Research has been awarded to the team at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity for their world-class study -- Isolation and rapid sharing of the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS‐CoV‐2) from the first patient diagnosed with COVID‐19 in Australia, which can be found at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2020/212/10/isolation-and-rapid-sharing-2019-novel-coronavirus-sars-cov-2-first-patient ... Dr Mike Catton, Dr Julian Druce and Dr Leon Caly talk with MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell about the research and impact it's had around the world. 

The Doherty modelling is the government's underpinning for a proposed easing of COVID restrictions once we reach targets of 70% and 80% of the adult population vaccinated. But the exit path has put Scott Morrison at odds with Western Australia and Queensland, states which would inevitably have to give up their present status of having little or no COVID. The model's priority is pivoting from reaching zero cases, to limiting COVID by vaccination, minimising serious illness, hospitalisation, and deaths. This week, Professor Sharon Lewin, Director of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity joins the podcast to explain into the much-discussed modelling and its policy implications. In the event things open up, our “first line of defence” will be the public health capacity, says Lewin. The ability to trace, test, isolate, and quarantine limits the explosion of cases and keeps the transmission potential “less than one”. Some critics have said the 70-80% target won't sufficiently protect the entire population from COVID. Lewin notes that amongst the varying models there is agreement we cannot open up on vaccine uptake alone. “You can't just open up a 70% with nothing else in place. There is no ‘Freedom Day'. You do need these additional public health measures.” In particular, while “tremendous advances have been made in capabilities[…] it's not universal across the country. In particular, First Nation communities, which have been prepared and boasted an "effective community lead response” earlier in the pandemic, will require a strengthening of their public health facilities.

First this week, Contributing Correspondent Sam Kean talks with producer Joel Goldberg about techniques museum conservators are using to save a range of plastic artifacts—from David Bowie costumes to the first artificial heart.  Next, Dayne Fratanduono, an experimental physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, talks with producer Meagan Cantwell about new standards for how gold and platinum change under extreme pressure. Fratanduono discusses how these standards will help researchers make more precise measurements of extreme pressure in the future. Finally, in a sponsored segment from the Science/AAAS Custom Publishing Office, Sean Sanders interviews Laura Mackay, professor and laboratory head at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne and 2018 winner of the Michelson Prize for Human Immunology and Vaccine Research, about the importance of diversity in science, technology, engineering, and math. This segment is sponsored by the Michelson Foundation. This week's episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF). [Image: Aleth Lorne; Music: Jeffrey Cook] ++ Authors: Joel Goldberg; Sam Kean; Meagan Cantwell See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

First this week, Contributing Correspondent Sam Kean talks with producer Joel Goldberg about techniques museum conservators are using to save a range of plastic artifacts—from David Bowie costumes to the first artificial heart.  Next, Dayne Fratanduono, an experimental physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, talks with producer Meagan Cantwell about new standards for how gold and platinum change under extreme pressure. Fratanduono discusses how these standards will help researchers make more precise measurements of extreme pressure in the future. Finally, in a sponsored segment from the Science/AAAS Custom Publishing Office, Sean Sanders interviews Laura Mackay, professor and laboratory head at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne and 2018 winner of the Michelson Prize for Human Immunology and Vaccine Research, about the importance of diversity in science, technology, engineering, and math. This segment is sponsored by the Michelson Foundation. This week's episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF). [Image: Aleth Lorne; Music: Jeffrey Cook] ++ Authors: Joel Goldberg; Sam Kean; Meagan Cantwell See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

First this week, Contributing Correspondent Sam Kean talks with producer Joel Goldberg about techniques museum conservators are using to save a range of plastic artifacts—from David Bowie costumes to the first artificial heart.  Next, Dayne Fratanduono, an experimental physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, talks with producer Meagan Cantwell about new standards for how gold and platinum change under extreme pressure. Fratanduono discusses how these standards will help researchers make more precise measurements of extreme pressure in the future. Finally, in a sponsored segment from the Science/AAAS Custom Publishing Office, Sean Sanders interviews Laura Mackay, professor and laboratory head at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne and 2018 winner of the Michelson Prize for Human Immunology and Vaccine Research, about the importance of diversity in science, technology, engineering, and math. This segment is sponsored by Michelson Philanthropies. This week's episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF).

Leading infectious diseases expert Professor Sharon Lewin, Director of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, talks about challenges with treating COVID, and challenges treating HIV.  And in weekly science news, the team talk about the discovery of ancient poo found to not contain antibacterial resistance genes, unlike modern poo; and a new paper has been published about Voyager 1. With presenters Dr. Shane and Dr. Krystal.Program page: Einstein-A-Go-GoFacebook page: Einstein-A-Go-GoTwitter: Einstein-A-Go-Go

In our second episode, RCPA President Dr Michael Dray, discusses the laboratory response to COVID-19 in Australia.  Features RCPA Fellow Dr Mike Catton, Deputy Director at the Peter Doherty Institute in Melbourne, Australia. The Doherty Institute was the first place in the world to grow the COVID-19 virus outside China.Copyright © 2021 The Royal College of Pathologists Australasia. All rights reserved.

Medical trials are a big part of the research process.

We're back! After a brief hiatus, we're proud to unleash our series finale: A STEM of Advice. It's our most jam-packed episode yet, featuring tips and tricks from almost every guest we've interviewed so far. Our guests will take you through their greatest STEM achievements - and their greatest failings - in order to prepare you for your own upcoming adventures. Still unsure about a career in STEM? Feeling worried about your studies? Fear not - these reactions are normal, and will soon pass. If you don't believe us, just listen to Amy Shepherd, or Grace McKee, or Ellen Sandell...well, you get the picture. Then, three of our reverse-engineers are back to dish out the FYIs for your future STEM-studying self. This episode's reverse engineering is presented by Erin Grant, who will uplift you with her high-flying facts on helium. GUESTS: Chloe Stuart - In@Science Mentor, University of Melbourne. Josh Cake - Comedian, musician and recent science graduate, University of Melbourne. Erin Grant - PhD candidate in biosensing, School of Physics, University of Melbourne. Rebecca Vincent - an engineering student at the University of Melbourne. Amy Shepherd - Neuroscientist and PhD graduate, University of Melbourne. Grace McKee - Founder of Sisters in Science. Ellen Sandell - Australian politician, State Member of Parliament, Melbourne. Dr Georgia Aitken-Smith - a.k.a Some Blonde Scientist, science communicator. Sarah Hanieh - Paediatrician working in global health and for Médecins Sans Frontières. Mary Mathias - Community Manager for EngineerGirl and the Online Ethics Center, National Academy of Engineering, USA. Dr. Leah Heiss - Designer and Academic, Wearable Health Technology & Human Centred Design, RMIT University. LINKS: WISE - Women in Science and Engineering - https://www.wiseunimelb.com/ The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity - https://www.doherty.edu.au/ Indigenous STEM Education Project - https://www.csiro.au/en/Education/Programs/Indigenous-STEM Sisters in Science - https://www.sistersinscience.net/ Careers and Employability at the University of Melbourne https://students.unimelb.edu.au/careers University of Melbourne Open Day: https://study.unimelb.edu.au/openday study.unimelb.edu.au CREDITS: Guest Host: Catriona Nguyen-Robertson Episode Host/Supervising Producer/Science Advisor: Dr. Andi Horvath Producer/Editor: Silvi Vann-Wall Assistant Producer: Buffy Gorrilla Additional Editing: Arch Cuthbertson CONTACT: podcasting-team@unimelb.edu.au

“I want to have a career in STEM - but will I fit in?” - this is a question on the minds of many young STEM students! And for good reason: for many years, the fields of STEM have been overwhelmingly dominated by workers who are straight, male and white. But it's been proven that the best and most effective teams are diverse teams - whether they are diverse in race, gender, sexuality, ability or neurodiversity. Diversity brings together many different perspectives, which allows for more efficient problem solving and greater innovation. In this episode you'll hear from people like Sophia Frentz, a disabled, non-binary scientist who currently works as an analytical consultant for DeLoitte. They'll recount how their efforts made working in the lab more accessible for people like them. You'll also hear from Grace Kalinin, an indigenous science student at the University of Sydney, who is also participating in the Indigenous STEM Education Project at CSIRO. Also in this episode, Catriona Nguyen-Robertson explores “inherent” racial bias in her reverse- engineering segment on neuroracism. GUESTS: ● Bryce Hughes, assistant professor at Montana State University ● Sophia Frentz, analytical consultant at DeLoitte ● Chloe Stewart, a student of environmental science at RMIT ● David Cameron-Staples, Senior Engineer at Unix Systems and Technology Management at Infrastructure Services ● Catriona-Nguyen Robertson, PhD candidate, the Peter Doherty Institute ● Grace Kalinin, participant in the Indigenous STEM Education Project, CSIRO ● Grace McKee, Founder of Sisters in Science LINKS: ● WISE - Women in Science and Engineering - https://www.wiseunimelb.com/ ● DeLoitte - https://www2.deloitte.com/au/en.html ● Bachelor of Environmental Science - https://study.unimelb.edu.au/find/courses/major/environmental-science/ ● The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity - https://www.doherty.edu.au/ ● Indigenous STEM Education Project - https://www.csiro.au/en/Education/Programs/Indigenous-STEM ● Sisters in Science - https://www.sistersinscience.net/ ● To explore the range of STEM courses UniMelb has on offer, see: study.unimelb.edu.au CREDITS Guest Host: Amy Shepherd Episode Host/Producer/Editor: Buffy Gorrilla Supervising Producer/Science Advisor: Dr. Andi Horvath Assistant Producer: Silvi Vann-Wall Additional Editing: Arch Cuthbertson CONTACT podcasting-team@unimelb.edu.au

STEM careers can take you around the world and back again. Find out why these people have ventured to extraordinary places. Like most things in life, careers don't always have a clear and straightforward path. Meet Frances Separovic who was from a poor migrant family, dropped out of uni for a while, but retained her curiosity and keenness to learn. Time jump to now, and she's professor of a chemistry department. You just never really know what you are capable of, and sometimes you have to follow your nose and just take the opportunities as they happen. Also in this episode: software engineering student Yu Ting Lin explains skin pigments in Reverse Engineering. Maybe one day outer space will be just another workplace destination - but before you reach the stars, you'll need to STEM up. Explore the range of STEM courses we have on offer by visiting study.unimelb.edu.au. GUESTS Dr Helen Wade, Marine ecologist and Homeward Bound participant. Dr Sarah Hanieh, Paediatrician working in global health and for Médecins Sans Frontières. Dr Theresa Jones, Ecologist who studies insects in exotic places around the world. Professor Frances Separovic, Deputy Director Bio21 Institute, and former Head of School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne. Amy Shepherd, Neuroscientist. Dr David Gonsalvez, Early Career Research Fellow at the NHMRC. Yu Ting Lin, Software engineering student. LINKS Homeward Bound: https://homewardboundprojects.com.au/ The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity: https://www.doherty.edu.au/ Médecins Sans Frontières: https://www.msf.org.au/ School of BioSciences at the University of Melbourne: https://biosciences.unimelb.edu.au/home School of Chemistry at the University or Melbourne: https://chemistry.unimelb.edu.au/home National Health and Medical Research Council:https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/ CREDITS Host and Producer: Buffy Gorrilla Guest Host: Josh Cake Supervising Co-producer: Dr Andi Horvath Assistant producer: Silvi Vann-Wall Additional editing support: Arch Cuthbertson CONTACT podcasting-team@unimelb.edu.au