This is where ideas for biomedical innovation are brainstormed and born.
In this extraordinarily important field, it is vital to ask the right questions- as the resulting solutions will aim to go on and solve some of the greatest medical issues.
Do you want to create this change? Because that next breakthrough starts here.
We invite guest researchers from the many niche areas of this field not only to pry at existing problems they face in their innovative work, but we then take this information, and here is our core element, look into the cracks, and derive ideas for the creation of new devices to target these problems.
My name is Francesca Chen, and as your host, I’m a student fascinated in the potential of the near future of biomedical innovation- one that the ideas cultivated directly in this podcast could go on to impact.
This is the real lab behind the innovation, alive with real ideas that could go on to change real people's lives.
With NEXT BREAKTHROUGH, you could be the one to change them.
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This is where ideas for biomedical innovation are brainstormed and born.
In this extraordinarily important field, it is vital to ask the right questions- as the resulting solutions will aim to go on and solve some of the greatest medical issues.
Do you want to create this change? Because that next breakthrough starts here.
We invite guest researchers from the many niche areas of this field not only to pry at existing problems they face in their innovative work, but we then take this information, and here is our core element, look into the cracks, and derive ideas for the creation of new devices to target these problems.
My name is Francesca Chen, and as your host, I’m a student fascinated in the potential of the near future of biomedical innovation- one that the ideas cultivated directly in this podcast could go on to impact.
This is the real lab behind the innovation, alive with real ideas that could go on to change real people's lives.
With NEXT BREAKTHROUGH, you could be the one to change them.
Follow to be the first to know when the new episode drops. In the meantime, check out our podcast trailer!
“One of the things that's really sort of changed fly neuroscience recently is the connectome.”
This connectome, Dr. Gordon says, is “like this map of all the connections between all the different neurons in the fly brain.” It completely revolutionized the way scientists do things like genome sequencing, where it would take years to sequence one single animal.
Now, this can be done in a day.
He says, “If something like the technology for studying connectomes could be scalable in a similar way, and we could then easily get connectome information from other species, for example, the species of insects or other larger species, etc.”
Hello everyone, welcome to Next Breakthrough! My name is Francesca Chen, and I have a surprise for everyone today in this month’s episode.
I interviewed Dr. Michael Gordon, a Professor and PI in the Department of Zoology at UBC, whose team looks at a very unique animal in their research: the Drosophila melanogaster. A fruit fly. Intrigued? I was as well when I initially read through Dr. Gordon’s research, and thus wanted to bring his thoughts to share with you all. As the topic of this episode suggests, we will cover a wide variety and depth of aspects today, including fly models and genetics, neuroscience, sensory processing in terms of taste and scent, optogenetics, nutrient sensing, the connectome, linking everything back to human health, and more in much more detail. Although some things discussed do not directly related to biomedicine per say, remember that biomedicine is really influenced and impacted by a broad scope of areas, and it can be through profound research from one of these areas that ties to something more central, as Dr. Gordon explains today. The episode gives us a broader view of the stretch and connectedness that are human biomedical sciences. It is all very interesting, so definitely go ahead and enjoy this unique episode. (I would also recommend you guys research a bit about the Human Connectome Project when you finish listening!)
Without further ado, here is Dr. Mike Gordon.