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Welcome to the Springer Nature Soundcloud page! Here you will find several podcasts from our journals across a range of scientific subjects, including Gene Pod, ModPath Chat, Pediapod, Hereditypod and Brainpod.

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00:23:42

Hereditypod - Alternative Entry Points

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2020/07/31

The antagonistic co-evolution that characterises host-parasite relationships is one of the most fascinating interactions in genetics. In this episode, Dr Gilberto Bento discusses one such interaction, the Daphnia–Pasteuria host–parasite system, and the discovery of an alternative route of bacterial infection associated with a novel resistance locus. Dr Bento also talks about his experience of leaving academia to find an alternative career in science. Associated article: An alternative route of

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00:16:50

Hereditypod - Inversions: an interview with Dr Rui Faria

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2020/07/31

In episode five of our editorial series we meet Dr Rui Faria from the Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources at the University of Porto (Portugal). Dr Faria’s research looks at the role of chromosomal inversions in the generation of biological diversity, focusing on Littorina snails as a model. And, in a more personal inversion, Dr Faria took his first steps behind a scientific journal when he joined the Heredity Editorial team in May 2019: tune in to discover how he made the leap and

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00:22:53

Hereditypod - Resistance is female

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2020/07/31

The arms race between the highly toxic rough-skinned newts of North America and the garter snakes that prey upon them is a literal textbook example of evolution in action. However, it appears that a piece of the genetic puzzle underpinning this interaction has been overlooked, until now. In this episode, PhD candidate Kerry Gendreau (Virginia Tech) and Dr Michael Hague (University of Montana) discuss their recent work showing that toxin resistance in garter snakes is sex-linked, and the implications

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00:11:08

Pediapod - Continuous glucose monitoring profile...

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2020/07/23

40% of infants with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) go on to develop long-term disability, despite receiving therapeutic hypothermia. Mounting evidence suggests that children with HIE are at a higher risk of both hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia, which may explain the variable outcomes to therapeutic hypothermia. In this episode, we meet this month's featured Early Career Investigator Dr. Paolo Montaldo, from Imperial College London, UK and the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy who

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00:09:06

Genepod - COVID-19 presents challenges for care of...

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2020/07/07

The COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented and clinicians have faced correspondingly unprecedented challenges in caring for patients in genetics and metabolic disease clinics who require routine check-ups and ongoing treatments. Yet, in overcoming these challenges, doctors have identified a few boons to patient care that may continue to benefit patients in the long run. Listen in to this month’s GenePod to hear how Dr. Nicola Brunetti-Pierri, a clinician at the Federico II University Hospital in Naples,

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00:11:00

Pediapod - Prevalence and stability of insufficient...

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2020/06/16

There is a growing body of evidence to suggest that insufficient sleep can have detrimental effects on school-age children's cognitive, emotional and behavioural regulation. But there remains a lack of objectively measured data on the stability and prevalence of insufficient sleep. In this episode, we meet Bror Ranum who is currently doing his PhD at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He was involved in a large prospective study of almost 800 children between the ages of 6-12 years

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00:20:05

Hereditypod - Targeted conservation of endangered chimps

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2020/06/05

Chimpanzees are humanities closest cousins, and they’re close to disappearing. In this episode we hear from Peter Frandsen (Copenhagen Zoo, University of Copenhagen) and Claudia Fontsere (Barcelona Biomedical Research Park), who are developing new genetic tools to aid in the conservation of this iconic species. Associated article: Targeted conservation genetics of the endangered chimpanzee - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41437-020-0313-0

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00:17:44

Hereditypod - Size matters for specialisation

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2020/06/05

What impact does the initial size of a population have on an organism’s ability to adapt to its environment? In this episode we investigate this question with Dr Yashraj Chavhan and Prof. Sutirth Dey from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in Pune, India. Their results hold important insights for many aspects of population genetics. Associated article: Larger bacterial populations evolve heavier fitness trade-offs and undergo greater ecological specialization -

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00:17:20

Hereditypod - Can mutational meltdown help us defeat...

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2020/06/05

The world is currently gripped by COVID-19, but could an often overlooked population genetic theory hold one of the keys to defeating it? In this episode we speak to Prof. Michael Lynch (Arizona State University) about a recent Comment he penned with Prof. Jeffrey Jensen, where they consider mutational meltdown as a potential SARS-CoV-2 treatment strategy. Associated article: Considering mutational meltdown as a potential SARS-CoV-2 treatment strategy -

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00:16:41

Genepod - International collaborations aim to provide...

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2020/05/28

During the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the challenges doctors are facing is the unpredictable course of the disease in different people infected with SARS-CoV-2. Some people have no symptoms, others have a flu-like illness, while others develop sometimes fatal respiratory or other organ failure. There is a growing understanding that genetics plays a role in determining the severity of illness. Fortunately, millions of human genomes are stored in biobanks and databanks all over the world and hundreds

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00:11:41

Pediapod - A novel, composite measure of screen-based...

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2020/05/21

Young children face unprecedented access to screens in the modern environment. It was recently estimated that children between the ages of 3-8 get almost 3 hours of screen use a day. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) have recommendations for screen-based media use which focus on four variables: access to screens, frequency of use, content and grownup-child interaction, or “co-viewing". In this episode, we meet Early Career Investigator, Dr John Hutton, from Cincinnati Children's Hospital

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00:09:32

Brainpod - Social networking and mental health

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2020/05/14

Over the past decades, there’s clearly been a dramatic increase in the amount of time people spend online using social networking sites. For instance, Facebook and Instagram have literally billions of users. At the same time, there’s been a rise in mental health issues for young people from teens through their mid 20s. The rise in these issues has been seen particularly for Millenials and the I generation, both of which grew up with increased access to and use of social networking sites. As a

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00:11:41

Pediapod - Demographic and psychosocial factors...

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2020/05/05

There is a growing body of evidence to suggest that early life stress can have detrimental effects on a child's physical and mental health. Hair cortisol concentrations are increasingly accepted as a cumulative measure of stressful experiences but they are understudied in preschool children. In this episode, we meet Professor Sunny Anand from Stanford University School of Medicine who developed a sensitive assay for hair cortisol concentrations. He and his team took hair samples from children aged

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00:07:10

Genepod - Lost in transcription: Incorporating blood...

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2020/05/05

RNA analysis can be an important addition to genetic sequencing in order to improve clinical care and to best understand variants. As clinicians use genomic testing more, the number of identified variants has also ballooned. But, for many variants, it is unknown whether they are pathogenic. The large number of variants of uncertain significance (VUS) can hinder or slow down a diagnosis. On this month’s GenePod, Dr. Diana Baralle, a professor of genomic medicine at the University of Southampton, and

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00:20:02

Hereditypod - Drift and selection in paradise

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2020/04/24

French Polynesia is a South Pacific paradise, and thanks to an eccentric aviculturist it is also host to an interesting evolutionary experiment. In 1937, Eastham Guild released silvereye birds on Tahiti, from where they dispersed to other islands. Now they form the perfect system for testing the roles of drift and selection in rapid morphological divergence. Join Ashley Sendell-Price (University of Oxford) as he discusses his resent research on silvereyes, and stick around for some views on LGBTQ+

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00:14:37

Hereditypod - Human impacts: an interview with Dr...

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2020/04/24

In episode four of our editorial series we meet Dr Giorgio Bertorelle from the University of Ferrara, Italy. An animal population and conservation geneticist, Giorgio is fascinated by the impact human activities have on the evolution of animal genomes.

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00:20:32

Hereditypod - Fantastic Frogs and Where to Find Them

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2020/04/24

Poison dart frogs are an iconic group of tropical animals. But how and when did their spectacular warning colourations evolve? And are they really a signal to predators? In this episode we explore these questions with Diana Rojas and Adam Stow, as they discuss their recent forays into the depths of both Amazonia and modern molecular methods to unravel the evolutionary history of colour diversification in the splash-backed poison frog, Adelphobates galactonotus.

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00:08:46

A therapeutic benefit to additional sugar intake?

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2020/04/08

A group of more than 130 disorders share a common problem: a glycosylation issue in development where the necessary sugar chains are fully or partly missing from their needed location on protein surfaces. Patients with one of the congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG) called SLC35A2 CDG are missing galactose, the sugar in milk, on their proteins. Without this sugar chain building block, SLC35A CDG patients often suffer from severe epilepsy, liver dysfunction and decreased coagulation among

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00:10:07

Sex-specific relationships between early nutrition...

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2020/03/31

In this episode, we meet Early Career Investigator, Dr Anna Tottman who during her time at the University of Aukland, Liggins Institute performed a retrospective cohort study looking at the relationship between neonatal nutrition and neurodevelopmental outcomes. Her research suggests that nutrition for preterm infants may need to be sex-specific. Take a listen!

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00:09:44

Fetal exposure to mercury and lead from intrauterine...

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2020/03/12

Preterm infants regularly need Packed red blood cell transfusions. This life-saving therapy can help prevent anaemia of prematurity and in turn, safeguard normal organ function. However, there is a risk that donor blood contains the heavy metals mercury (Hg), lead (Pb) and Cadmium (Cd) which are known developmental neurotoxicants and may be present in neurotoxic doses. In this episode we meet Alison Falck, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who has

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