Soupçon of SciComm

A Soupçon of SciComm with Parshati Patel on planet formation

Sat, 27 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

We talk to Parshati Patel who is an Astronomer turned Science Communicator and currently works as an Education and Outreach Program co-ordinator at Western University in London, Ontario in Canada. Parshati talks to us about visualising and understanding how planets form.

A Soupçon of SciComm with Vaishali Rawat on the importance of Geography

In this edition of our mini-podcast series, we talk to Vaishali Rawat who is a writer and conservation advocate at Wildlife Conservation Society in India. She is also Sanctuary Asia Magazine's Young Naturalist of the year for 2017. She talks to us about the importance of ecology, wildlife conservation and geography in our everyday lives.

A Soupçon of SciComm with Devayani Khare on Citizen Science

Devayani Khare is a Geomorphologist who talks to us about Citizen Science and all the different ways in which normal everyday people can get involved in doing science.

A Soupçon of SciComm with Chintan Sheth on Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Chintan Sheth can fly to any spot on the planet, whenever he wants. In fact, he can even fly to

A Soupçon of SciComm with Shrinivasan Raghuraman on cone snails that hunt

Shrinivasan Raghuraman studies some really shy animals. But they hunt, taser, harpoon and even suck blood! Want to learn more? Press Play!

A Soupçon of SciComm with Deeptha Vasudevan on Zebrafish and Neurogenesis

Deeptha thinks Zebrafish are the coolest fish in the world. Probably even the coolest animal ever? Do you know why?

A Soupçon of SciComm with Arnab Dasgupta on Cosmology

Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of Starship IndSciComm. Its continuing mission – to explore strange new science.

A Soupçon of SciComm with Anusha Shankar on hummingbirds and energy budgets

Hummingbirds are some of the tiniest birds with one of the highest metabolism rates ever found in the animal kingdom. Listen to Anusha Shankar explain how they manage to sleep at night and not die of starvation!

A Soupçon of SciComm with Vijay Ramesh on using history to study ecology

Vijay Ramesh talks to us about why its important to learn from the past so that we can effectively predict our future - not just for global warming, but also for bird migrations!

A Soupçon of SciComm with Reema Jayakar on the Universality of human emotions

Can you feel somebody else's emotions? Pain, frustration, relief and even happiness? Humans might be one of the very few species that can do this with remarkable fidelity! Reema Jayakar explains how understand this Universality of Human emotions was a turning point for her as a neuropsychologist.

A Soupçon of Scicomm with Manan Gupta on Evolution and Niche construction

Manan Gupta talks to us about how reading Richard Dawkins helped him change his interests, about how subject boundaries are artificially created and his work on Evolution and Niche construction. Tune in!

A Soupçon of SciComm with Dr. Ramesh Laungani on resource allocation in plants

Dr. Laungani is the first ever Associate Professor to be featured in our series! Listed as we chat about Plant

A Seasonful of Soupçons

How fast can you say the name of our summary episode without stopping? Feel like trying? This is what its

A Soupçon of SciComm with Manisit Das on cancer immunotherapy

References: Manisit’s citations What is ComSciCon? ComSciCon Triangle Oncobites Manisit on Oncobites writing about Cancers and Immunotherapies Manisit on

A Soupçon of SciComm with Srikanth Iyengar on Euler’s number

References: Srikanth’s homepage at the University of Utah Vertices, Faces and Edges Euler’s characteristic Cutting squares into equal area triangles

A Soupçon of SciComm with Parul Chachra on Neuroplasticity

References: Parul on Google Scholar Neuroplasticity on Wikipedia Activity dependent plasticity of the brain on Wikipedia Parul on LinkedIn Intro

A Soupçon of SciComm with Mohit Dubey on Glial Cells in the Brain

References: Mohit’s website Mohit’s research group at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience – Kole Group Glial Cells – Wikipedia Intro

A Soupçon of SciComm with Sugosh Prabhu on Microscopy and Spectroscopy

References: Atomic Force Microscopy on Wikipedia Scanning Tunneling Microscopy on Wikipedia Tip Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy on Wikipedia Sugosh Prabhu on

A Soupçon of SciComm with Swetha Godavarthi on Neurotransmitter switching

References: Swetha on LinkedIn Swetha on Twitter What is a Synapse? What is Neurotransmission? Neurotransmitters – Glutamate, GABA Neuromodulation –

A Soupçon of SciComm with Prasanna Venkatesh on Group Theory

References: Prasanna Venkatesh on LinkedIn What is a Group? Youtube What is Group theory? Wikipedia Rubik’s Cube group Wikipedia Notes

A Soupçon of SciComm with Sharbatanu Chatterjee on viewing Language through Neuroscience

References: Sharbatanu’s personal website and Google Scholar profile The Tell-Tale Brain by V. S Ramachandran The FOXP2 gene Intro and

A Soupçon of SciComm with Arun Mahadevan on the Emergence of Behavior from the Brain

References: Arun on Twitter Arun’s article on ‘The Society of Stem Cells‘ Emergence on Wikipedia Understanding complexity in the human

A Soupçon of SciComm with Abhilasha Joshi on how space and time are important in the organization of the brain

References: Abhilasha’s profile and publications in the Department of Pharmacology in Oxford Abhilasha’s paper where Teevra and Komal cells are

A Soupçon of Scicomm with Rohini Singh on Sociality

References: Rohini’s website Rohini’s work and laboratory at University of Pennsylvania Doing an Ant PhD – More details about Rohini’s

A Soupçon of SciComm with Leena Ali Ibrahim on thinking about the brain

References: Gord Fishell’s laboratory Leena on Google Scholar Leena on Twitter The cerebral cortex – Wikipedia A primer on the

A Seasonful of Soupçons – The end of Seasons

Where we wind up our second and final season of ‘Soupçon of SciComm’, in view of transitioning to a non-seasonal