Welcome to 2025! Lexus and Pri update you all on their PhD's and future plans. And as a special surprise, they are in studio with Tell Me More Studios to record a video as well!

Clips from the podcast are on our instagram @incubation_time

In this episode, we’re diving into the highlights of the 2024 Nobel Prizes in Medicine, Physics, and Chemistry! Join us as we explore the groundbreaking discoveries that earned this year’s Nobel laureates their prestigious awards. From life-saving medical breakthroughs to revolutionary advancements in chemistry and the mysteries of physics, this episode is packed with insights for both science enthusiasts and curious listeners alike. Listen in and get inspired by the science shaping our future!

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Lexus and Priyankaa are now PhD candidates! Check in with us in this mini episode as we reflect and de-stress from these last three months and explain why we've been absent.

Hope to get back to regular podcasting soon!

Thanks for listening and don't forget to subscribe.

We're BACK! Join us post-snowpocalypse as we dive into E. coli, the workhorse of every research lab.  Come find out how it was discovered, the way humans end up with E. coli when we are born, why its such a great and safe organism to use in lab, how fast they actually grow and how bacteria is responsible for one of the worst attacks on US soil (and no, its not the one you're thinking of).  We also interview a guest--our classmate Ryan Otto--about his experience working with E. coli in his lab.

Woman in Science featured: Gertrude Elion (https://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochangedscience/stories/gertrude-elion)

Episode Breakdown:

0:00- Intro live from the Snow-pocalypse
6:20- Gertrude Elion
9:50- History of E. Coli
22:00- When cults meet bacteria
25:10- Science of E. coli
31:00- How much E. coli?
34:50- Interview with Ryan Otto

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-Lexus and Priyankaa

In our third episode we asked you, our colleges and peers, to ask your friends or family what it is you do in lab? Here is a collection of all the wonderful responses your loved ones gave.  It was fascinating to find out what we tend to focus on when telling people about our research and what they pick up on.

Breakdown (so you can skip around):

0:00-Intro
2:20-Guide to COVID vaccines
9:00-Woman in Science (Marie Maynard Daly)
11:00-Fun Science (Ig Nobel)
16:60-Interviews with friends and family!

Links

Our new website: anchor.fm/incubationtime
Ig nobel winners: www.improbable.com/ig-about/winners/
Improbable Research Podcast: www.improbable.com/category/the-weekly-improbable-research-podcast/

Thanks to contributors to this episode and their chosen family members

Shayal, Emma, Mia, Parker, Nicole, Nikki

This week we dive into our favorite award season! Nobel Prize week! We break down the 2020 winners of the Physiology and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry prizes and share some fun facts and stories about past Nobel winners.  Visit nobelprize.org for information on all laureates!

Episode Breakdown:
0:10-Intro and catchup
3:46-Woman Scientist of the episode
5:26-Nobel Fun Facts
9:40-Physiology or Medicine Award
14:00-Physics Award
16:50-Chemistry Award
28:00-Fun Nobel Stories

Papers mentioned:
Alter et al. Clinical and serological analysis of transfusion-associated hepatitis, The Lancet (1975).
Alter et al. Transmissible agent in non-A, non-B hepatitis, The Lancet (1978)
Kolykhalov et al.Transmission of Hepatitis C by Intra hepatic Inoculation with Transcribed RNA, Science (1997)
The Heroes of CRISPR (https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(15)01705-5.pdf)

Hi everyone! Welcome to the Podcast.  For our first episode, we thought it would be good to introduce ourselves.  Learn why we love science, how we got here, and what our lives in lab are like right now!Subscribe to us on all the pod sites for new episodes every two weeks (fingers crossed)!

-Priyankaa and Lexus

Welcome to Incubation Time! Priyankaa and Lexus' podcast that brings you into the research fold. Glad you're here! Probably because we asked you to be.  Here's an audio nugget for what's ahead! Tune in next week for our first episode.

Mouse in the house! This episode we dive straight into mice as a model organism. DISCLAIMER - this is NOT a gory episode. We chat and learn all about behavioral assays used to monitor autism in mice with Ph.D. Candidate and colleague Shayal. Tune-in to listen to how to get a lazy mouse back on their treadmill (don’t we all need this technique), and what does your pipette tip box say about you?

We interview fellow graduate student (and social media influencer) Priscilla Del Valle. She talks to us about what working in a lab with different kinds of tissue culture is like and what the microbiome has to do with cancer research!

We also talk to her about entering biotech after your PhD and how she became famous online!

Follow her at @prisdvmvsscience on insta and tiktok

Follow us at @incubation_time for pictures to accompany this episode!

We are BACK! And we are starting with a standalone interview with graduate student Carlos Pinzon. He has a fascinating story going from vet school to grad school and he has worked with every kind of animal under the sun! Carlos gives us some insight into stem cells and agricultural research and how finicky and particular it can be to work with these kinds of cells.

Warning: this episode is very jargon heavy and technical but you'll learn a lot if you do decide to dive in!

Conferences! What are they? Why do we go? Why are there so many different kinds? Get an inside look into science conferences told from the point of view of our classmates.  It is an essential part of the graduate school experience and a big part of a science career. Join us while we unpack the fun, the not so fun and the interesting parts of the science conferences we went to this year. Yes there is a lot of free food and alcohol involved. Yes there are bosses who dance. What other secrets do conferences hold? Tune into Ryan taking on two conferences this summer, one in Canada and one on the East Coast; Lexus going to her rival state; and Sarah going across seas to talk about worms!

In today’s episode, we finally get to fan-girl about our favorite model organism… except with a twist. C.elegans are cool and fun but in this episode we deep-dive into the life of the parasitic worm, Schistosoma mansoni, with graduate student Sarah Cobb. 

Time Stamps:

0:00- Intro
3:30-Woman in Science
6:60-Science of the Week
10:55-Interview with Sarah Cobb. 

Link to article from Lexus' Lab!
https://rdcu.be/cSjDu

The model organism episodes continue, this week featuring fruit flies! Those pesky buggers do more than just populate your banana bowl. Tune in to hear us interview a grad student about what makes fruit flies such a popular model organism and the cool things we can research by using them. Join us, as we find yet another organism name we can't pronounce.

TimeStamps:
0:00: Crazy Science and Woman in Science
7:20: Intro to flies
12:40: Interview with Marianne Mercer

Links:
Artificial Heart:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220422184956.htm
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm3791

Marianne's Paper:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2021.710186/full

After a long break, Lexus and Priyankaa are back with their 2nd Model Organism interview! This episode, you learn all about that tiny little (model)organism that makes happy-hours happy...YEAST! Or should we say Saccharomyces cere..cere..vis-iae? Lexus and Priyankaa sit down with Ph.D. Candidate Natalie Ortiz to not only learn about yeast, but also deep dive into microbiology and food-science. 

Time Stamps - 

0-3:45 Intro/catch up 

3:45-5:40 Women in Science 

5:40 - 10:45 Science News of the Week

10:45 - 14:45 Background with Yeast

14:45 - Yeast Interview with 5th Year Ph.D. Candidate Natalie Ortiz 

Its that time of year again! Sit down with Priyankaa and Lexus as they discuss the latest Nobel Prizes in Medicine, Chemistry and Physics as well as giving you the science news of the week and the woman in science of the week (she's related to one of the laureates this year!)

Woman of the week: Christiane Volhard (1995 Nobel Prize winner)
Science family tree: https://academictree.org

Timepoints

14:20-Medicine Prize
31:30-Chemistry Prize
42:14-Physics Prize

Sources:

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2021/advanced-information/
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2021/advanced-information/