Body Contouring and Plastic Surgery


Guest: Dr. Detlev Erdmann, plastic surgeon, Duke Center for Aesthetic Services
Topics: Body contouring (skin reduction following weight loss surgery), the state of plastic surgery

Dr. Detlev Erdmann

Detlev’s Duke Health faculty site

Click to Download: Radio In Vivo February 15, 2012


The immune system and the developing brain: developmental neuroimmunology


Guest: Dr. Staci Bilbo, director, Developmental Neuroimmunology Lab, Duke University
Topics: Developmental neuroimmunology, the presence of immune cells (microglia) in the brain, impact on health and behavior later in life

Dr. Staci Bilbo

Duke Developmental Neuroimmunology Lab

Staci Bilbo research profile, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences

Click to Download: Radio In Vivo January 25, 2012


Sea Snakes


Guest: Dr. Harold Heatwole, professor of zoology, NC State University
Topics: Sea snakes, tardigrades

Dr. Harold Heatwole

Harold’s NC State faculty website

bioMovies

Click to Download: Radio In Vivo December 21, 2011


Body Image and Self-Esteem in Girls and Women


Dr. Cindy Bulik

Guest: Dr. Cindy Bulik, Director, UNC Eating Disorders Program
Topic: Cindy”s new book, The Woman in the Mirror: How To Stop Confusing What You Look Like with Who You Are

The Woman in the Mirror website

The Woman in the Mirror blog

Exchanges: The UNC Eating Disorders Program blog

UNC Eating Disorders Program

Click to Download: Radio In Vivo December 14, 2011


Exploring genetics of schizophrenia


Dr. Diana Perkins, UNC-Chapel Hill

Dr. Clark Jeffries, Renaissance Computing Institute & UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy

Guests: Dr. Diana Perkins, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UNC-Chapel Hill, Director, OASIS; and Dr. Clark Jeffries, Renaissance Computing Institute & UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy

Topics: The genetic basis of schizophrenia, early intervention in schizophrenia, discovery of very small pluripotent stem cells in human peripheral blood

OASIS (Outreach and Support Intervention Services) Program

Diana’s UNC Faculty page

Clark’s UNC Faculty page

Click to Download: Radio In Vivo November 30, 2011

Marrying bioinformatics, pharmacogenomics, toxicogenomics

Guests: Dr. Alison Motsinger-Reif, assistant professor, Bioinformatics Research Center, NCSU, and Dr. David Reif, statistician, National Center for Computational Toxicology, EPA, RTP

Topics: Bioinformatics, pharmacogenomics, toxicogenomics, ToxPi (Toxicological Priority Index), married scientists


Click to download: Radio In Vivo November 9, 2011 

The importance of teamwork in science


 Click to download: Radio In Vivo October 26, 2011
A Special Edition of Radio In Vivo featuring a recent keynote speech on the importance of teamwork in science, by Dr. Joseph DeSimone, Professor of Chemistry at UNC and NCSU and Founder & Scientific Advisor of Liquidia Technologies

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Dr. Joseph DeSimone, UNC/NCSU Chemistry; Founder & Scientific Advisor, Liquidia Technologies

The physics of organic solar cells and light-emitting diodes


Click to Download: Radio In Vivo October 12, 2011 
Guest: Dr. Harald Ade, Professor and Director of Graduate Programs, Department of Physics, NC State University

Topics: The physics of organic solar cells and light-emitting diodes, new methods of analyzing the composition, morphology and structure of polymeric and electronic materials at the sub-micron scale

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Dr. Harald Ade, Professor, Physics Department, NC State University

Ade Research Group

Harald’s NCSU faculty page

Advanced Light Source

Advances in vulvar and pelvic pain diagnosis and treatment, vulvar vestibulitis syndrome (VVS)


 Click to download: Radio In Vivo September 28, 2011 
Guest: Dr. Denniz Zolnoun, Director, Vulvar Pain Clinic, UNC School of Medicine

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Dr. Denniz Zolnoun, Director, Vulvar Pain Clinic, UNC School of Medicine

UNC Vulvar Pain Clinic

UNC Pelvic Pain Research Unit

UNC Advanced Laparoscopy & Pelvic Pain (Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynecology)

Society for Women’s Health Medtronic Prize (awarded to Denniz, May 2011)

Avian paleontology, fossil penguins, divergent dating, sauropod dinosaurs



Guest: Dr. Dan Ksepka, Research Professor, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University; Research Associate, Department of Paleontology, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

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Dr. Dan Ksepka, paleontologist, NCSU, NC Museum of Natural Sciences

March of the Fossil Penguins – Dan’s blog

Dan’s NCSU research website