Audiommunity
A podcast about our bodies' never-ending fight with the outside world
- Update frequency
- every 25 days
- Average duration
- 69 minutes
- Episodes
- 45
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
You're famous if you have a wikipedia page
We've got a couple of new hosts - Please give a warm welcome to Chadene Tremaglio and Camilla Engblom! Kate is still holed up in a cave (lab) trying to wrap up her PhD. But she'll soon return... we h…
00:53:46 |
Sun 19 Nov 2017
The Devil Went Down to... awww, C'mon Matt
Audiommunity loves Tasmanian devils, so we bite the shit out of them... In this episode, we're talking about a contagious tumor that couldn't happen to a nicer species. No seriously, it really couldn…
00:59:02 |
Fri 30 Sep 2016
If At First You Don't Succeed
This week - Evidence that viruses drive the evolution of their hosts - who would have guessed? Matt struggles to remember how evolution works, and Kate and Kevin yell past each other about open peer …
01:16:46 |
Fri 17 Jun 2016
So, a B-cell walks into a germinal center...
In this episode, Matt and Kevin give in to aesthetics. This paper's just really pretty.
01:17:33 |
Wed 11 May 2016
Allergies Suck Less than Cancer
This week, a guy gets a kiwi allergy from a bone marrow transplant from his sister, Matt envisions a magic mouse, and Kate peaces out after 20 min. Meanwhile, Kevin continues to be the only one drink…
00:58:56 |
Tue 26 Apr 2016
Bacteriophiles with Jesse Noar
Something a bit different this episiode. Last month, we joined Jesse Noar, host of the excellent Bacteriophiles podcast to record an episode about oncolytic viruses (viruses that blow up cancer cells…
00:57:21 |
Thu 21 Apr 2016
J Lo Poop Pills
In this episode, how parasitic worms alter in immunomodulatory effects of the gut microbiome. Also, Kate expresses her distaste for large datasets and animal experiments, and Matt proposes a weight l…
01:17:08 |
Thu 17 Mar 2016
More cow... sirens?
In this episode, we talk about the innate immune system's Trojan cow strategy - using a cyclic dinucleotide as a signaling molecule means that viruses can package the seeds of their own destruction.
01:12:52 |
Thu 25 Feb 2016
When your immune system is all up in it
In this episode we talk about lymphatics in the brain and why that's both obvious and not obvious. Meanwhile, Kate drinks disgusting smoothies and Kevin triggers Matt with a trigger warning.
00:51:42 |
Thu 28 Jan 2016
Jimmy Carter's Brain on Drugs
In this episode, Matt and Kevin discuss checkpoint blockade cancer immunotherapy (wow, that's a mouthful). When cancer stamps down the breaks of the immune system, cutting the break line can allow T-…
01:01:58 |
Wed 13 Jan 2016
The other DRACO
This week, we're discussing DRACOs - not the Harry Potter character, a "new" class of antiviral therapeutics that links up the double-stranded RNA-binding part of one protein to the cell-death (apoPt…
01:10:03 |
Mon 21 Dec 2015
Matt got married, and we're talking about pregnancy
In this episode, we're talking about the placental microbiome - that is, the bacteria that hang around a developing fetus in the womb. Wait, there are bacteria hanging around a developing fetus? Appa…
01:12:40 |
Wed 09 Dec 2015
GATACA
In this episode, we discuss the moral implications of doing experiments on babies without brains, and editing the genomes of unborn humans. I reveal my nature as a moral monster, and Kate can't resis…
01:07:58 |
Thu 01 Oct 2015
Bee pollen is one of those hippy things
To celebrate the return of the warm(ish) weather, we discuss a paper looking at immune responses to bee venom, and the underlying causes of environmental allergy.
00:52:39 |
Thu 16 Apr 2015
No, Not Seminol
A discussion about sCD38, a molecule that's secreted in mouse and human sperm,
and may play a role in suppressing a mother's immune response to a new fetus.
00:58:12 |
Wed 11 Mar 2015
Taco shock syndrome
Turns out *Staphylococcus aureus* can evade the immune system by activating it.
Also, Matt's bad hair day and a link between tacos and tampons.
00:54:14 |
Wed 28 Jan 2015
I'd just like to second everything Abbie said
In this episode, we're joined by Abbie Smith, a postdoctoral fellow studying HIV at Emory University, and author of the popular (and always wonderful) ERV blog.
01:15:25 |
Thu 04 Sep 2014
Let's just make it more deadly
Kate and Kevin talk influenza and gain of function research. Should we be making flu more deadly?
01:22:25 |
Mon 18 Aug 2014
Hot Dog Buns, Hard Lines and Floppy Bits
After a hard day's work, sometimes you want to just kick your feet back and relax. Unfortunately, sometimes your CD8 T-cells want the same thing, even though they don't have feet.
01:16:45 |
Mon 14 Jul 2014
Just a Huge Distraction
In this episode, Kevin talks with Pamela Ronald, professor of plant pathology at the University of California, Davis. Almost 20 years ago, Ronald discovered Xa21, a plant pattern recognition receptor…
00:37:48 |
Wed 04 Jun 2014
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