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Podcast Season 1

Show notes – S01E09 John Lesku
  • Where the magic happens – The Lesku Lab
  • A video of sleeping ostriches
  • A collection of videos of sleeping animals
  • Crocodiles sleep with one eye open – where Metallica and sleep ecophysiology meet
  • Future Nobel Prize winner James Krueger with a popular rendition of the science of sleep
  • The home page of future Nobel Prize winners Chiara Cirelli and Giulio Tononi
Show notes – S01E08 Paul Young
  • Paul’s homepage at UQ
  • Many moons ago (so long ago the original link is gone), Science at the Local cofounder Hamish Clarke wrote a feature article for Cosmos Magazine on the ins and outs of viruses
  • Incredible search results for the bacteriophage virus – look at these and tell me they are not aliens
  • Old interview with Paul about his work on Koala viruses
Show notes – S01E07 Shari Forbes
  • Shari’s page at UTS
  • Information about the UTS Body Donation Program
  • SMH article about AFTER, the forensic facility recently opened (don’t call it a body farm though!)
  • Piece on ABC’s AM program about Shari and AFTER
Show notes – S01E06 Alice Williamson
  • The Open Source Malaria home. The OSM’s current series is on triazolopyrozine.
  • The 6 Laws of open source research. I think it’s pretty cool that they’ve come up with these. Reader, what are your laws?
  •  Of course, the OSM is also on facebook and twitter. Go forth, interact!
  • Speaking of interacting, you can do so with Alice at twitter or on the radio, Tuesday mornings at 8:15
Show notes – S01E05 Michaela Blyton
  • Michaela’s home page at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
  • All about the Koala Microbiome Project
  • A nice little primer (it’s a pun, you’ll see) of the Polymerase Chain Reaction a.k.a. PCR
Show notes – S01E04 Aaron Greenville
  • Aaron’s desert ecology research group (fancy a trip to the desert? You can volunteer!)
  • Aaron’s personal page. He writes, takes amazing photos… what a guy!
  • Aaron’s group has a facebook page and yes of course, it is called Ratcatchers
  • Aaron spoke about the Bush Heritage group, take a gander at Science in the desert’ themed articles.
  • Two videos, one from an exhibition celebrating 20 years of the research group’s work and the other from a community information event.
Show notes – S01E03 René Heller
  • René’s homepage at the Max Planck Institute
  • Article about René’s paper on looking for aliens looking for us
  • All about the Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (that’s the spacecraft, not the deceased pioneering astronomer)
  • Exomoons article by Aussie astronomer Bryan Gaensler
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