In this episode of the Research Digest Podcast, we discussed the article titled “Early adversitycauses sex-specific deficits in perforant pathway connectivity and contextual memory in adolescent mice”, published in Biology of Sex Differences Journal (Volume: 15, Article number: 39) in 2024 by BMC/Springer Nature. We talked with the leading author, Dr. Rafiad Islam, about the backgroundof the research work, major findings, and future perspectivesYOUTUBE LINK

GUEST INTRODUCTION

Rafiad Islam, PhD

Associate Research Scientist,

Yale School of Medicine

ARTICLE LINK

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – Introduction

01:45 – Author’s career journey

06:35 – Early life adversity and related studies

19:49 – Starting of the project and initial experiments

28:10 – Other main findings of the study

44:40 – A challenging part of the study

47:23 – Why do men and women differ in terms of development?

51:20 – Future directions of the study

53:54 – Take home message

In this episode of the Research Digest Podcast, we dive into a fascinating study published in JCI Insight (2024) titled “Impact of genetic factors on antioxidant rescue of maternal diabetes–associated congenital heart disease.” We had the pleasure of chatting with the lead author, Dr. Talita Z. Choudhury, who walked us through the story behind the research, the key discoveries, and what this could mean for future studies in the field.

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Original Research Article Link

In this episode of the Research Digest Podcast, we discussed the article titled “Protein bL38 facilitates incorporation of uL6 during assembly of the 50S subunit in Flavobacterium johnsoniae”, published in Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) Journal (Volume 53, Issue 4) on 28 February 2025 by Oxford University Press. We talked with the leading author, Md Siddik Alom, about the background of the research work, major findings, and future perspectives.

GUEST AFFILIATION

Md Siddik Alom, PhD

Ohio State University

YouTube Link

https://youtu.be/RNxSsZfQ3XY

Original Article Link

https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf120

In this episode of the Research Digest Podcast, we discussedthe article titled “Dynamic Changes in Heparan Sulfate Nanostructure in Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Differentiation”, published in ACS Nano (2023). We spoke with the lead author, Dr. Deena Al Mahbuba, about the background of the research work, its major findings, and future perspectives.

THIS EPISODE on YOUTUBE

https://youtu.be/rtVNZWDLmtU

ARTICLE LINK

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsnano.2c10072

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – Introduction

01:20 – Career journey of the author

04:45 – Introducing the author

05:30 – Starting the project and the knowledge gap

11:30 – Heparan sulfate proteoglycans and their importance

15:40 – Expansion microscopy

22:00 – Major findings and observations

32:00 – Role of heparan sulfate in the fate decision of hematopoietic stem cells

38:20 – Challenges of the project

43:40 – Message to the young scientists

In this episode of the Research Digest Podcast, we discussedthe article titled “A mesoporous gold biosensor to investigate immune checkpoint protein heterogeneity in single lung cancer cells”, published in Biosensors and Bioelectronics Journal by Elsevier (Vol. 249, 2024). We talked with the leading author, Emtiaz Ahmed, about the background of the research work, major findings, and future perspectives.

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In this episode of the Research Digest Podcast, we discussedthe article titled “Paratype: a genotyping tool for Salmonella Paratyphi A reveals its global genomic diversity”, published in Nature Communications; Vol 13: 7912 (2022). We talked with the leading author, Dr. Arif Mohammad Tanmoy, about the background of the research work, major findings, and future perspectives.

GUEST INTRODUCTION

Arif Mohammad Tanmoy, Ph.D.

Associate Scientist, Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF), Bangladesh

YOUTUBE LINK

https://youtu.be/OTZJADfMwzs

ARTICLE LINK

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35587-6

In this episode of the Research Digest Podcast, we discussedthe article titled “Genomic attributes of Vibrio cholerae O1responsible for 2022 massive cholera outbreak in Bangladesh”, published in Nature Communications journal (2023). We talked with the leading author, Dr. Md Mamun Monir, about the background of the research work, major findings, and future perspectives.

GUEST INTRODUCTION

Md Mamun Monir, Ph.D.

Assistant Scientist, icddr,b

YOUTUBE LINK

https://youtu.be/m66YIRc3wec

ARTICLE LINK

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36687-7

In this episode of the Research Digest Podcast, we discussedthe article titled “Alternative splicing of a chromatin modifier alters the transcriptional regulatory programs of stem cell maintenance and neuronal differentiation”, published in Cell Stem Cell, Volume 31:5, (2024). We talked with the leading author, Mohammad Nazim, about the background of the research work, major findings, and future perspectives.

GUEST INTRODUCTION

Mohammad Nazim

Assistant Project Scientist,University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)

ARTICLE LINK

https://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/fulltext/S1934-5909(24)00128-0

YOUTUBE LINK

https://youtu.be/C_YCZfKC8l8