Episodes
Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland on the mysterious death of about half the world’s population of saiga antelopes in two weeks. (Extract 3 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 24 June 2015)
Published 06/23/15
The Institute of Chemical Biology’s Dragon’s Den-style competition gave doctoral students a chance to win £20,000 by pitching their projects to a team of experts. (Extract 3 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 21 January 2015)
Published 01/21/15
Professor Michael Levitt winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry talks about the impact of computing power on the progress of modern biology
Published 11/18/14
In this audio interview PhD student Sam Lloyd explains what makes a species invasive and tells us how Silwood Park’s crayfish have come to dominate the pond.
Published 10/09/14
In this audio interview Gail Wilson asks Dr Baum how this new molecular map of the malaria parasite's ribosome may open up a pipeline for new drug discovery.
Published 07/31/14
Gareth Mitchell looks down the microsope at the 2014 Imperial Festival to find what enables bacteria to swim. (Podcast 21 May, extract 4/4)
Published 05/21/14
Professor Julie McCann takes her inspiration from nature for writing algorithms that allow distributed wireless networks to become self-organising, adaptive and intelligent.
Published 05/21/14
Professor E J Milner-Gulland discusses her research on the impact of human activity and political change on the saiga antelope population
Published 05/19/14
The winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine helped us understand how materials are packaged and transported in cells, as Dr Anita Hall (Life Sciences) explains. (Extract 3 of 3 from the Imperial Podcast 30 October 2013)
Published 10/29/13
Emily Humble introduces her MRes project where she is using next-generation sequencing techniques to perform a transcriptome comparison between different species of shark to investigate the molecular basis for endothermy.
Published 04/18/13
Dominic Andradi-Brown introduces his MRes project investigating tropical mangrove forest restoration effectiveness, the methods and skills he has learnt while conducting it and the importance of mangrove restoration.
Published 04/18/13
Video taken at the Tsaobis Baboon Project in Namibia. New research from ZSL and Imperial scientists shows baboons choose who to eat with depending on their position in the pecking order. (This video has no commentary)
Published 09/14/12
Dr Dan Reuman explains how a discrepancy between extinction rates and reality is disguising a catastrophic decline in biodiversity in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil
Published 07/18/12
The in vivo imaging facility in Imperial's new MRC Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection tracks a mouse bacterial infection over 11 days, showing how the disease spreads throughout the body and how the animal successfully fights off infection.
Published 07/02/12
Scientists from Imperial College London have devised a way of producing music from noises without a composer. Dr Bob MacCallum explains the evolution of musical loops created by http://darwintunes.org
Published 06/19/12
An experiment by Imperial scientists has shown that music can evolve by means akin to Darwinian natural selection. (Extract 1 of 5 from the Imperial College Podcast 20 June 2012)
Published 06/19/12
Imperial's Professor Gerard Bishop and University of Nottingham's Graham Seymour talk about the publication of the tomato genome and what this means for the future of this important fruit crop.
Published 05/31/12
Sir Ernst Chain Distinguished Lecture given by Prof Jim Barber
Published 05/25/12
Gareth Mitchell interviews Dr Angela Cassidy about how cultural depiction of badgers can change ideas about culling the animals when they spread diseases like Bovine TB. (Extract 3 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 9 May 2012)
Published 05/09/12
Professor Nadia Rosenthal discusses human tissue regeneration in her inaugural lecture.
Published 05/01/12
Professor George Christophides and Dr Tony Nolan discuss their efforts to prevent mosquitoes from spreading malaria. (Extract 2 of 5 from the Imperial College Podcast 18 April 2012)
Published 04/17/12
Energy generated from plant biomass could deliver up to one fifth of global demand without causing a decline in food production, according to a new report by Imperial scientists, working with the UK Energy Research Centre
Published 11/25/11
A team of Imperial students have engineered e.coli bacteria to help plants survive soil erosion, scooping up top prizes at the final of the 2011 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) World Championship at MIT
Published 11/11/11
A film about scientists. Professor Stephen Curry interviews six different scientists to find how how they got interested and what drives them in their life and work.
Published 09/19/11
NK cell proteins are essential to detecting the diseased cells like cancers. Here they organise into a ring within which 'killing' granules are delivered to the diseased cell. Narration by Dr Alice Brown, movie compiled by Warwick Bromley.
Published 09/14/11