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SPOTL]i[GHT - Nanion Technologies

SPOTL]i[GHT - Nanion Technologies

By Nanion Technologies

A selection of user interviews from around the globe.

Topics covering electrophysiology, ion channels and drug discovery.
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Carlos Pardo-Pastor (King's College London)

SPOTL]i[GHT - Nanion Technologies Apr 13, 2021

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Henzler-Wildman Lab (Katherine Henzler-Wildman & Nathan E. Thomas)
Nov 08, 202126:32
Carlos Pardo-Pastor (King's College London)

Carlos Pardo-Pastor (King's College London)

Dr Carlos Pardo-Pastor (King's College London) is a Research Fellow in the Randall Centre for Cell & Molecular Biophysics. He started his scientific journey studying Human Biology, an MSc in Biomedical Research and then completed his PhD in Biomedicine at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

On this episode of the podcast we spoke with Carlos about his most recent publication (Piezo2 Channel), you can read the full publication here. He highlights the importance of funding in science, his personal experiences in applying for grants, and some helpful tips for staying motivated as a researcher and connecting with peers in the field.

Keep updated with his latest research on ResearchGate and Google Scholar.

Apr 13, 202134:17
Shashank Pant (University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Mar 17, 202123:02
Dr. Filip Van Petegem (University of British Columbia)
Mar 04, 202128:37
Dr. Yohei Ohashi (Medical Research Council (UK))
Jan 27, 202118:33
Fernanda C. Cardoso, Ph.D (University of Queensland) - The Significance of Drug Screening for Therapeutic validation
Dec 08, 202018:45
Benjamin Lane (University of Leeds)

Benjamin Lane (University of Leeds)

Benjamin is a Wellcome trust PhD student, who is working under the supervision of Dr Christos Pliotas and Dr Stephen Muench. He recently joined their groups  to work on his project combining Cryo-EM and PELDOR with electrophysiology, to structurally and functionally characterise novel mechanosensitive ion channels.

Find Benjamin on Twitter and connect with him on LinkedIn.


Dec 01, 202017:33
Catherine Webley (University College London)
Nov 24, 202016:00
Beatrice Badone, Ph.D (University of Milano-Bicocca)

Beatrice Badone, Ph.D (University of Milano-Bicocca)

Meet: Beatrice Badone, a Ph.D. student at the University of Milano-Bicocca. In the lab, Beatrice currently works with cardiomyocytes - under Professor Paola Coccetti and through the PRIN grant is working on her current project of the hiPSC-derived astrocytes in Alzheimer's Disease; an example of how stem cells can serve as an alternative for screening purposes.

Find Beatrice on Google Scholar and connect with her on LinkedIn.

Nov 12, 202028:03
Claudia Weidling, Ph.D (University of Copenhagen)

Claudia Weidling, Ph.D (University of Copenhagen)

Meet: Claudia Weidling, a Ph.D student at the University of Copenhagen. Claudia is working in The Pless Lab situated in Denmark.  In this episode Claudia tells us about her recent publication in Nature, her experience being a Ph.D student during a pandemic and what advice she would offer to prospective Ph.D students.

Read the Nature Publication here.

Read more of Claudia's research here "The NALCN channel complex is voltage sensitive and directly modulated by extracellular calcium", co-written by H. C. Chua, M. Wulf, C. Weidling, L. P. Rasmussen, S. A. Pless.

Finally, Claudia would like to thank the funding agency, the Independent Research Fund Denmark and gives all credit for the structure to Genetech.

Connect with Claudia on ResearchGate and LinkedIn

Nov 03, 202022:22
Kerstin Göpfrich, Ph.D. (Max Planck Institute for Medical Research )
Oct 19, 202013:59
Postdoctoral research fellow Nasreen Choudhury (Rush University Medical Center) - [Voltage-gated calcium channels]
Sep 30, 202013:11
Damian Bell (Metrion Biosciences) - Part 1: All things Ion Channels

Damian Bell (Metrion Biosciences) - Part 1: All things Ion Channels

About:
Damian Bell is an experience electrophysiologist - presently he is working at
Metrion Biosciences - which is a specialty CRO (services in cardiac safety profiling, cardiac translational assays and neuronal translational assays) based out of Cambridge, UK.

In Part 1:
We look at Damian's history in Patch Clamp Electrophysiology and the emergence of automated patch clamp. He has spent time in the pharmaceutical industry with AstraZeneca, GSK, Convergence and Charles River Laboratories.

The Advances in Drug Discovery specifically involving Ion Channel Research and the emergence of higher throughput screening (when compared to traditional Manual Patch Clamp).

Sep 22, 202018:13
Professor Lars Kaestner (Saarland University) - Red Blood Cells
Sep 09, 202026:25
Trong Shen, from Biomedical Engineering to the World of Finance.

Trong Shen, from Biomedical Engineering to the World of Finance.

Connect with Trong on LinkedIn

During his time in the lab, Trong was a member of Hinz Lab working closely with Prof. Boris Hinz of University of Toronto. Dr. Hinz explores the biomechanical, molecular and cellular mechanisms regulating tissue repair and regeneration in physiologic wound healing and pathologic organ scarring (fibrosis). His research focuses on activated connective tissue repair cells – myofibroblasts.

Sep 03, 202014:24
Wandi Zhu, Ph.D. (Harvard) - NaChBac and NaV1.7 Pharmacology
Aug 06, 202018:16