JAMSpod
15 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -A podcast that gets to know the microbiologists behind the microscope.
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Simple solutions to the AMR pandemic
November 24, 2020 10:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBIn this JAMSpod episode we speak to Professor Deborah Williamson about AMR pathogens, leading technologies and simple solutions that are needed to help aid in tracking and stopping unnecessary spread of AMR.
The true cost of antibiotics
November 21, 2020 23:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBIn this JAMSpod episode we speak to Professor Andrea Whittaker about tackling communication of AMR between scientists, farmers and the public as well as finding creative solutions for communicating about AMR across cultures and increasing the value of antibiotics.
Designing antibiotics and the open-source antibiotic pipeline
November 19, 2020 01:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBIn this JAMSpod episode we speak to Dr. Mark Blaskovich about novel open-source approaches to antibiotic discovery and his work at CO-ADD, the Community for Open Antimicrobial Drug Discovery.
AMR solutions: think global, act local
November 17, 2020 22:00 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MBIn this JAMSpod episode we speak to Professor Trevor Lithgow about sustainable solutions to antimicrobial resistance, where we learn it is not just about discovering new antibiotics but taking measures to ensure their success.
Demobilising AMR Spread
November 17, 2020 00:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBIn this JAMSpod episode we speak to Associate Professor Slade Jensen about how antibiotic resistance is mobilised between bacteria and novel ways in which we can stop the spread.
Demobilising AMR Spread
November 17, 2020 00:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBIn this JAMSpod episode we speak to Associate Professor Slade Jensen about how antibiotic resistance is mobilised between bacteria and novel ways in which we can stop the spread.
Getting to know Prof Liz Harry: antibacterial honey, rhubarb leaf pesto and ikigai
August 15, 2020 04:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBProfessor Liz Harry is Professor of Biology and previously the Director of the ithree institute (infection, immunology and innovation) at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). Liz obtained her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Sydney. She then went to Harvard University as a National Institutes of Health (NIH, USA) Postdoctoral Fellow. There she pioneered the development of fluorescence microscopy techniques for bacteria that enabled visualization of the subcellular proteins ...
Getting to know Prof Dee Carter: fungal extinction, beer explosions and mould advice
August 14, 2020 06:00 - 33 minutes - 22.7 MBDee Carter graduated from the University of Otago, New Zealand, with a Bachelor of Science (Hons I) and undertook her PhD at Imperial College, London, where she worked on the plant pathogen Phytophtohora infestans, graduating in 1992. She then did an IMSERM postdoctoral fellowship in the Faculte de Medicine, Montpellier, France, and a NIHAID fellowship at Roche Molecular Systems, Alameda, California and the University of Berkeley, under the combined mentorship of Dr Thomas White and Professs...
Getting to know A/Prof. Tim Newsome: viral vaccines, sleep psychology and cytoskeletons
August 14, 2020 05:00 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MBAssociate Professor Tim Newsome was appointed Lecturer in the School of Molecular Bioscience in 2007, with key leadership responsibilities in the areas of virology research and teaching. He was made Senior Lecturer in 2012 and Associate Professor in 2019. A/Prof. Newsome was awarded his PhD from the University of Zurich in 2000, and moved to Cancer Research UK, London shortly after to work as a Post-doc, successfully managing to publish his work in the highest international journals, and de...
Getting to know Prof Brajesh Singh: friendly soil microbes, dreaming science and flaming plastic
August 14, 2020 03:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBProfessor Brajesh Singh is an internationally recognised expert in the field of functional ecology and soil biology. Through his fundamental research, his work identifies the quantitative relationships between soil biodiversity and ecosystem functions and how natural/anthropogenic pressures such as global change affect this. His applied research harnesses the knowledge gained in fundamental research to achieve increased farm productivity, sustainable development, environmental protection and...
Getting to know Prof Michael Gillings: origins of life, art v science and beautiful fungi
August 14, 2020 02:00 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MBDistinguished Professor Michael Gillings is in the Department of Biological Sciences at Macquarie University, where he is Professor of Molecular Evolution. In general, his interests focus on genetic diversity and its role in evolution. This allows an eclectic research program, with papers on viruses, bacteria, fungi, diatoms, green algae, invertebrates, plants, sharks, and mammals in the last five years. Two of his main research programs include the origins and environmental consequences of ...
Getting to know A/Prof Willa Huston: catching chlamydia, condom man and making koala antibiotics
August 14, 2020 02:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBAssociate Professor Willa Huston is a Molecular Microbiologist (PhD awarded 2004) with an interest in chlamydia and chlamydial diseases. Her work has mainly focussed on understadning the chlamydial mechanisms of disease, persistence, and how the disease causes infertility in women. She is also interested in the role proteases have in pathogenesis and biology. She has strong expertise in intracellular infection models and human dsease models. Her team has research project on-going in chamydi...
Getting to know Dr. Brendan Burns: microbes in space, emus and stromatolite communities
August 12, 2020 10:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBDr Burns has expertise in the study of stromatolite communities. Of particular significance, Dr Burns conducted the first polyphasic study of modern stromatolite communities identifying a range of metabolically diverse organisms. These included a range of cyanobacteria, heterotrophic bacteria, and archaea. This is the first time such a diversity of archaea associated with marine stromatolites has been shown. Several sequences identified are also unique phylotypes with no close relatives in t...
Getting to know Dr. Brendan Burns: microbes in space, emu parties and stromatolite communities
August 12, 2020 10:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBDr Burns has expertise in the study of stromatolite communities. Of particular significance, Dr Burns conducted the first polyphasic study of modern stromatolite communities identifying a range of metabolically diverse organisms. These included a range of cyanobacteria, heterotrophic bacteria, and archaea. This is the first time such a diversity of archaea associated with marine stromatolites has been shown. Several sequences identified are also unique phylotypes with no close relatives in t...
Getting to know Prof Ian Paulsen: synthetic microbes, cats and radioactive leaks
August 12, 2020 03:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBDistinguished Professor Ian Paulsen has a diverse and impressive background in microbiology but also in all the fields that surround it such as genomics and synthetic biology. He always seem to be involved on the cutting edge of science! In the early days of his academic career he was discovering biological mechanisms of multiple drug resistance to antibiotics. In the 1990s during the genomics revolution, when the sequencing of the first human, bacterial, plant and fungal genomes were conduc...