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The Fancy Labcoat Guild

Guy Rohkin, Ali Dashti

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The Fancy Labcoat guild is a space where scientists, technologists, and engineers share their insights about their life, their life's work, and the scientific zeitgeist. It’s a place where members of the scientific community can talk about information beyond their publications. We’re here for you to leave with an understanding of how science works and how we can make it better.
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Episode Description: Welcome to another intriguing episode from our AMA series, where we're diving deep into the realms of cell biology, cognitive aging, and neurodegenerative disease, all through the lens of zebrafish! We're delighted to have Dr. Liz Haynes, a cell biologist and post-doctoral fellow, as our special guest. A proud advocate for open…
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Let's dive headfirst into a fascinating episode of our AMA series featuring a disruptor who's rewriting the playbook of cell biology and challenging the status quo in the scientific world. Meet Dr. Zara Weinberg, a cell-signaling sorceress and postdoc at UCSF. She's got a big love specifically for cyclic AMP and G protein-coupled receptors. If you'…
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Prepare for an episode of the Fancy Labcoat Guild with an AMA in our Discord where we're going to jump into the world of pancreatic cancer research with Dr. Mike Feigin, an Associate Professor and Director of Experimental Therapeutics at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. Known for his investigative pursuit of understanding the gene regulati…
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Prepare for an episode of the Fancy Labcoat Guild that's less 'blinding flash of light' 🔦 and more 'steady, comforting glow' 💡. We've got an AMA on our Discord with the humble luminary - Dr. Phillip Kyriakakis. He's the kind of guy who tinkers with molecular light switches in optogenetics, a field most of us can't even spell correctly on the first …
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In this captivating episode of our AMA series, we dive into the fascinating world of floral ground plants 🌺 with our special guest, Dr. Min Ya. As both a talented researcher and artist, Dr. Min Ya shares her unique insights into the molecular basis of these plants, which make up over 90% of known land plants. Her passion for her work is contagious,…
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In our first special AMA hosted by Scifind on our Discord, we brought in Sebastian Cocioba–the 21st century's very own modern Mendel. 🧬 Sebastian is an amateur biologist and one of the founders of Binomica Labs, who works from the comfort of his home lab, surrounded by his beloved plants and instruments. From cultivating his passion to surviving th…
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Our guest, Erin McConahey, is a Principal in Mechanical Engineering with Arup, an employee-owned global engineering, advisory and planning consulting firm that focuses on all aspects of the built environment. Erin’s passion for finding integrated design solutions through a collaborative design process began with a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical En…
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Dr. Anthony Casarez is a California native, a sought-after and talented “Molecular Architect”. An expert in organocatalysis by research during his Ph.D. in the laboratory of David MacMillan, the 2021 Nobel prize laureate in Chemistry. He completed his undergrad at SFSU, did his Master's in Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh, and then joined …
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Dr. Victoria Piunova is a world-class polymer chemist with a boatload of accomplishments. As CTO at her current company Loliware, she’s disrupting the plastic industry with her seaweed-derived plastic analogues. Loliware has engineered a new category of high-performance products designed to disappear and be carbon negative at scale. By using seawee…
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*Update*: Due to events as indicated in the news with Serhat Gumrukcu (https://hindenburgresearch.com/enochian/ ), take what's said here with a grain of salt. The episode is being kept up as a point to corroborate any information and as a piece of evidence going forward. Episode Breakdown: 0:00-21:27min: Who is Serhat? and the influence of Art and …
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Louis Metzger believes that the precise engineering of biology will enable a coming revolution in how humans live, work, and interact with our planet. Inspired by his undergraduate research in the computational modeling of protein-small molecule interactions, Louis earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Duke University, where his work lay at the inter…
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In our first episode, The Fancy Labcoat Guild welcomes Dr. Kris Tatiossian to the fold. She’s a scientific rockstar: a molecular biologist from USC’s Keck School of Medicine. We start from humble beginnings in entomology. We follow her through her PhD into the world of research with the groundbreaking CRISPR technology to ultimately creating her ow…
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Today we'll be discussing some key facts about mould and dampness and your health. I'm going to review some of the main health issues people might experience if they spend time indoors inside a mould affected building and I'm also going to discuss some of the current research about airborne mould particulates and diabetes. Now, this is surprising! …
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Which Nutritional Supplement Works Against Influenza & Cancer? — Let me tell you about mushroom-based nutraceuticals and how AHCC and related Basidiomycete fungi can help boost your immune system. I review studies showing how these supplements work with mice and humans infected with Influenza as well as an overview of their use in cancer treatment.…
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Introduction to the show — It all starts somewhere, and this is ground zero for our first show #1. Let me tell you in this Introduction, what we're going to cover, why this matters and what you can do with this information. I'll introduce myself (your host) and tell you where the resources can be found and other social channels for content, feedbac…
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EPISODE 5: Which Nutritional Supplement Works Against Influenza & Cancer? — Let me tell you about mushroom-based nutraceuticals and how AHCC and related Basidiomycete fungi can help boost your immune system. I review studies showing how these supplements work with mice and humans infected with Influenza as well as an overview of their use in cancer…
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EPISODE 3: The Simplest Ways to Make the Best of Short Sightedness — By 2020 over 2.5 billion people will suffer from short sightedness or myopia and it's a $US268 billion problem per annum. Find out how science can help with interventions to delay the onset or reduce or prevent progression.By Beyond The Labcoat
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EPISODE 1: Introduction to the show — It all starts somewhere, and this is ground zero for our first show #1. Let me tell in this Introduction, what we're going to cover, why this matters and what you can do with this information. I'll introduce myself (your host) and tell you where the resources can be found and other social channels for content, …
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