The AlmaMAC 213: Antibiotic resistance with Pallavi Mukherjee
Antibiotics are compounds that fight bacterial infections by either slowing the growth of bacteria or killing them. Antibiotics generally work by inhibiting processes and pathways needed for bacterial...
18 Nov 202130min
Random Walk 2.5: Food at COP26, Virgin Vultures, NASA Attacking a Meteor, Ecology in Subnautica
This week: Jessie D takes us deeper into the abyss of Subnautica on Gamer’s Guide to Ecology Looks like yuh brought a haggis to a clahmet fight. The biggest climate conference is underway, and they...
11 Nov 202130min
Bringing the bio-revolution to Canada: Towards a pan-Canadian Genomics Strategy (CSPC2021)
Organized by: Genome Canada Twenty years after the Human Genome Project, genomics is delivering on its promise: a big data science that—combined with AI, gene editing and biomanufacturing—is revolut...
10 Nov 202115min
Marshalling Science, Technology and Innovation to Solve Global Problems (CSPC2021)
My main takeaway from this session was that “we all want collaborations”. Many have industry-led collaborative approaches. I will say, a lot of the session felt like name-dropping different initiative...
10 Nov 202110min
Developing holistic food policy in Canada (CSPC2021, Pre-conference sessions)
In 2019 a federal budget item was announced and $134 million was set aside for what is considered the first-ever FOOD POLICY FOR CANADA. Qualitatively, income disparity and unequal access to affordabl...
9 Nov 202114min
Random Walk 2.4: Rock towers, Funding lotteries, Ecology in Subnautica
This week, we: Are building towers out of rocks, because the US military wants us to! Buying lottery tickets instead of writing grant proposals - it actually might be the best way to do it! And of ...
4 Nov 202130min
Random Walk 2.3 - Diffusive Transport (a very special type of random walk!) with Antonia Kowalewski
This week’s random walk is … going to take up the whole episode this week. We have a very special guest this week. Antonia Kowalewski is an undergraduate student studying biophysics at Simon Fraser Un...
29 Okt 202131min
The AlmaMAC 200: How past climate change affects our present and future with Nick Randazzo
Sedimentary rocks are rocks which are formed from the compaction of other rocks or organic material near the Earth's surface. They can tell us information about the Earth's past environment like how m...
21 Okt 202123min
