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On this week's show Dr Shane, Dr Lauren and Dr Jen discuss hard decelerating cheetahs, stress induced grey hair and the stomach muscles of (thankfully) pre-historic armored mega fish. Guests this week include the Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Professor Doug Hilton, Dr David Szmulewicz from the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital joins the team to discuss the importance and methods for testing balance and Richard Manasseh from the Department of Mechnical Engineering at Swinburne University presents his research on how ultrasound can be used to increase drug absorption.

All this and more on another packed episode!

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Dr Shane and Dr Dyani discuss bird penises, glowing plants and crowd-funding research ethics, astronomical dust traps, the Albert Einstein Automated Transfer Vehicle and bee colony collapse.

They talk to David Hocking, PhD student from Zoos Vic, Monash University and Museum Victoria, about how seals capture their prey underwater, and to Professor Sally McArthur, Associate Dean Research and Development, Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Science, Swinburne University of Technology, about her work with bio-interface engineering - linking technology to biology, and improving pathology testing times.

Dr Shane, Dr Lauren, Dr Alicia and Danger Mouse join you on this episode of Radio A Go Go.

In the news: the team talk about recent research about pheromones amongst men, the recent showing of the documentary Jabbed: Love, Fear and Vaccines on SBS, and the developments on a possible manned mission to Mars planned by NASA.

The team's first guest is Professor Anna Wirz-Justice, the 2013 winner of the Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) medal about light therapy. More information about the therapy can be found here: http://www.cet.edu.au/

PhD student Elizabeth Fletcher who works at the cardiovascular endocrinology laboratory at the Prince Henry's Institute at the Monash Medical Centre. She comes in to talk about her research on heart disease and a particular receptor on heart cells.

And lastly Professor Greg Murray talks about his medical research as well who is the Head of Psychological Sciences and Statistics at Swinburne University of Technology. He spoke about biological rhythms and bipolar disorder.

The team talk to Professor Terry Spithill, AgriBioscience Professor from La Trobe University, about the zoonotic parasite Fasciola hepatica (liver fluke) which infects sheep and cattle, as well as humans, around the world.

The team also talk to members of the pathology team at Monash Medical centre, Peaira talks about pathology week, Trevor discusses next generation genome sequencing and Michelle tells us about current pathology technology.

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Dr Chromo, Dr Lauren, Dr Jen and Dr Krystal join Dr Shane in the studio for this week's show.

In science news: Malaria parasites talk to each other. Time lapse photography is aiding in IVF success rates. There are ten foreign cells for every human cell in the body and they feed on red meat. Alligators lose up to 3000 teeth in their lifetime and re-grow them using stem cells. Surprise, surprise, carrots are good for your eyes!

The first guest is algebraist Dr Marcel Jackson from Latrobe University who comes in to discuss the power of abstraction.

The second guest is Dr Euan Ritchie  (aka Mr Jen) from Deakin University. Euan discusses extinction rates (one or two species per year). He also talks about his current crowd funding project, a camera trapping study for mammals in PNG's remote Torricelli mountains. More details here.

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EAGG 12^th May 2013

Dr Shane, Dr Dyani, Chris KP

News Items:

Dr Dyani – Genome sequencing study on epigenetic modification.

Chris KP – Danish treatment of spinal pain.

Dr Shane – Bats eat moths! Latest research of the greater wax moth and their extended hearing capabilities.

First Guest:

George Feast, post-doctoral researcher from Material Science and engineering division at CSIRO, waxes lyrical on high-throughput synthesis and characterisation of amphiphilic compounds.

Second Guest:

Sally Sherwin from Zoos Victoria gives insight to the behaviour and welfare of zoo animals. How do we as visitors effect the animals? Find out here…

Third Guest:

Jennifer Henry, PhD, is the Director, Life Sciences at The New York Academy of Sciences. What are the latest natural products used in pharmaceutical products?

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This week's show goes for the record: more guests than ever before! Dr Shane is joined in the studio by Dangermouse and Dr Alicia to discuss avian influenza and insect-eye cameras. Guests include Dr Paul Stoddart from the Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Science at Swinburne University of Technology, Professor Stephen O'Leary from the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (RVEEH) and Professor Katie Allen from Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI). Allergies, cyborgs and more...

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Dr Shane, Dr Dyani, Dr Ray and Dr Adam speak to Dr Megan Maher, the La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science Senior Research Fellow about the role of transition metal nutrients in biology; and also Dr Katie Mack (Twitter: @AstroKatie, Blog: The Universe In Theory), Discovery Early Career Research Award Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Physics, University of Melbourne about the latest theories and investigations into Dark Matter.

They also discuss a worm-inspired adhesive, and the possibility of using them on bandages to deliver medicines; dark lightning; some new findings on fossils of our homonid ancestors; and using E. coli to generate Diesel fuel.

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Chris KP, Dr Jen, Dr Chromo, Dr Lauren this week chat with Dr David Nigh regarding Australia's lack of space exploration policy, Dr Jason Tye-Din about celiac disease, and look at research that debunked the myth that mothers are inherently better at parenting + more.

On this week's show Dr Shane, Dr Lauren and Dr Ray discuss improvements in brain scanning, earthquakes triggered by human activity (!) and the success of the planet identifying Kepler mission. Dr Michelle Hall from the Department of Zoology at the University of Melbourne joins the team to present her work studying native birds and their calls. Dr Lauren presents on the 41st International Exhibition of Inventions (and the associated problems) and Dr Ray discusses an amazing new approach to helping people with respiratory failure.

All this and more on another packed episode.

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