The HudCast
Hi! We are Mikee and Ben, two bros who met while doing PhDs. We've been in uni for a reaaaallly long time and have done a hell of a lot of studying between us. One of the most surprising things we've both learnt is that scientists are people. Normal, everyday, brilliant and funny people. Here we are going to chat to a few, about their work, their lives and have a bit of fun with them!
Episodes
40 episodes
Episode 39 - Dr Amy Wilson; OUR FIRST LIVE EPISODE
This week, we actually see our guest (the amazing Dr Amy Wilson) face to face. It's all the same Hudcast shenanigans, but this time, in person! Amy finished her PhD alongside Mikee and is now a postdoc within the centre and is stud...
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Episode 38 - Professor Beverley Vollenhoven; You Take the Good with the Bad
Professor Beverley Vollenhoven sits down to chat with us about her clinical work, research life and everything in between. We absolutely love chatting to professors. They've been through it all and are a treasure trove of wisdom and hilar...
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Episode 37 - Dr Paris Papagiannis; Stem Cells and Science Stuff Ups
Dr Paris Papagiannis joins us to chat about how unlucky she's been in science. Seriously, you think you're unlucky? Trust us, Paris has got you beat! She also chats about her current work in the cellular landscape of the lungs and how cells int...
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Episode 36 - Dr Daniel Rolnik; Predicting and Preventing Pre-eclampsia
Dr Daniel Rolnik joins us to chat about his career as a maternal fetal medicine specialist, his work leading a multicentre, randomised trial on the prediction and prevention of pre-eclampsia and how football (translation: soccer) is like religi...
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Episode 35 - Dr Tom Forbes; Pediatrics, Stem cells and Cake
Dr Tom Forbes joins us to chat about his career as a pediatrician, his PhD work in stem cell research and life lessons learnt during lockdown. Read more about Tom's work here:https://www.melbournepaediatricspecialists.com.au/pr...
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Episode 34 - Dr Shavi Fernando; Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Research
Dr Shavi Fernando joins us to chat about his as a specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist, the research he's done and what it's like to be a dad during the pandemic. Read more about Shavi'swork here:https://www.drshavifernand...
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Episode 33 - Dr Shayanti Mukherjee; Pelvic Organ Prolapse.
AAANNNDD WEEE'RRRREEEE BAAAACCCKKKDr Shayanti Mukherjee joins us to chat about her work in pelvic organ prolapse, her journey around the world to get here and how well she's going to treat her new honours student!Read more...
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The HudCast - Christmas Special- Episode 32
Dear HudCasters. We put this little video episode together just to say a special thank you to everyone who has taken part in our little show this year. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! ...
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The HudCast - Professor Rod Hunt; Protecting Baby Brains and Not Living in the Past - Episode 31
This week we are joined by the awesome Professor Rod Hunt!He is dedicated to investigating ways to protect baby brains and asks us all to live in the moment. Check out his track record here! You will be blown away! https://...
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The HudCast - Dr Michael Leung; Flipped learning. The New Way to UNI - Episode 30
This week we are joined by the awesome Dr Michael Leung, who is changing the game when it comes to tertiary learning. Anyone whos sat in lectures and tutes before knows how difficult it can be to apply that knowledge to the real wo...
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The HudCast - Dr Emily Camm and her SuperSqaud!- Episode 29
This week we are joined by not 1, not 2, not 3 but 4 scientists! Dr Emily Camm joins us to chat about her work in all things 'getting babies to grow better', and conditions such as placental sufficiency and fetal growth restric...
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The HudCast - Dr Thomas Tapmeier; Endometriosis. The Future of Tracking and Diagnosis - Episode 28
DID YOU MISS US?!.... Did you even notice that we were gone? We took a little break but are back with a new episode out tonight! Episode 28 out now! We chat with a researcher who works on endometriosis, moved to Melbourne during...
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The HudCast - Professor Graham Jenkin; Stem Cells and Sailing - Episode 27
This week we are joined by a very special guest, the totally awesome Professor Graham Jenkin! His research focuses on fetal and neonatal wellbeing, in particular at-risk pregnancies, including Fetal Growth Restriction (FGR), infection in pregna...
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The HudCast - Professor Eric Morand; A Journey through Medicine, Science and Modern Jazz - Episode 26
This week we are joined by the awesome Professor Eric MorandProfessor Eric Morand is Head of the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University's largest clinical school, and a physician-scientist. So we make sure to ta...
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The HudCast - Dr Fiona Cousins; Endometriosis. Facts and the Future - Episode 25
This week we are joined by the awesome Dr Fiona Cousins. You may remember the very cryptic "Whachchaa" HudcastHello a few weeks back. Well, we found her and got her to explain just what that was! We also chat about her amazin...
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The HudCast - Dr Atul Malhotra; Babies and brain injury - Episode 24
This week we are joined by the awesome double Dr Atul Malhotra.Atul is a clinician-scientist who's work focuses on identifying and treating brain injury in babies. He does this with some really high tech analysis and cutting edge scienc...
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The HudCast - Dr Nicole Campbell; Interferon. A robot that's always interrupting or the latest in cancer treatment? - Episode 23
This week we are joined by the awesome Dr Nicole Campbell. She is investigating the utility of interferons as a treatment for ovarian cancer, loves pokemon and is an absolute baking whiz!Check out her work here:
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The HudCast - Associate Professor Rebecca Lim; Amniotic Epithelial Cells and Japanese Sword Fighting - Episode 22
This week we chat with the totally awesome Associate Professor Rebecca Lim!A/Professor Rebecca Lim is a Deputy Centre Head of The Ritchie Centre where she leads the Regenerative Medicine and Cellular Therapies Theme. She sat down with u...
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The HudCast - Dr Annie McDougall; Living Life to Make you Happy - Episode 21
This week we are joined by the awesome Dr Annie McDougall. We chat about life leading into research and the choice to move on to something new. Annie is also currently volunteering at the amazing PANDA. An organization dedicated to supp...
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The HudCast - Dr Paulo Pinares-Garcia; Epilepsy and Optogenetics. It's pretty much witchcraft. Episode 20
This week we chat to the awesome Dr Paulo Pinares-Garcia on using some pretty high-tech equipment to study signalling within the brain and how this may improve the treatment of Epilepsy. He's also an awesome musician! Listen close for some musi...
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The HudCast - Dr Hayley Dickinson; Mental health in Science and Using this Experience to Help the World - Episode 19
This episode is a special one. It truly is. We don't talk about it enough, but science is hard. And mentally, it's pretty tough. If there is one take away from this - its always okay to take care of you. Dr Hayley Dickinson joins u...
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The HudCast - Dr Rebecca Loh; From PhD to Clinical Research Coordinator - Episode 18
If you are a science student, be it undergrad to PhD and not sure if you're set on a postdoc, then this one is for you!Dr Rebecca Loh joins us to talk about her journey from undergrad, honors, PhD and now her role as a Clinical Research...
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The HudCast - Dr Maree Bilandzic; Ovarian Cancer and White Shirts - Episode 17
Dr Maree Bilandzic joins us to talk about her work in ovarian cancer, heading her own lab group and how a little partnership with the fashion industry helped raise 12 million dollars for ovarian cancer research. Read all abo...
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The HudCast - Associate Professor Morag Young; Your body clock and your health - Episode 16
Associate Professor Morag Young joins us to talk about how important circadian rhythm is to your overall health. We also chat about 400km bike rides and very importantly, prepare yourself for the greatest song of the century, introduced to us b...
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Episode 16
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The HudCast - Associate Professor Claudia Nold; Interleukins, inflammation and skiing - Episode 15
Associate Professor Claudia Nold joins us to talk about cytokine biology, inflammation, and immunology. We also chat about days where she would hike up snow-covered mountains only to ski off them in an avalanche! Read all about her amaz...
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