HeyJaredWOrM Podcast: Whole Organism Analytics Podcast
Join Dr Veeren Chauhan (University of Nottingham) as he explores whole-organism analytics, revealing how life adapts, interacts, and evolves.From nematodes to next-generation analytical tools, expect deep dives into cutting-edge research, expert insights and the discoveries…
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EPISODE 59: Food or Sex? The Worm Has to Choose (opens the original)
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Welcome to the next episode of The Worm Podcast 🧠 Today we are talking about a problem every animal faces: where should I spend my energy? For C. elegans , the answer depends partly on sex. Hermaphrodites need to balance food, reproduction and survival. Males have an extra problem: they also need to find a mate. This new study identifies SKN-1B , a neuronal version of the conserved Nrf transcription factor, as part of the switch that helps control those competing priorities. 🍽️ Food or mate? SKN
EPISODE 58: The Diet That Gave a Worm Its Copper Back (opens the original)
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Welcome to the next episode of The Worm Podcast 🧠 Today we are looking at copper, bacteria and a surprising dietary rescue. Copper is an essential micronutrient. Cells need it for mitochondrial energy production, antioxidant defence and many other processes. In humans, mutations in the copper transporter CTR1 can cause severe copper deficiency and developmental problems. Now researchers have created a C. elegans model of this disorder — and discovered that simply changing what the worms eat can
EPISODE 57: AI Watches Worms Eat (opens the original)
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Welcome to the next episode of The Worm Podcast 🤖 Today we are talking about feeding. More specifically, how do you measure a worm eating when the worm refuses to stay still? The answer might be PumpKin — a new machine-learning pipeline that automatically measures pharyngeal pumping in freely moving C. elegans . 🍽️ Watching the grinder When C. elegans feeds, its pharynx pumps rapidly and a tiny structure called the grinder moves back and forth. That movement gives us a direct measure of feeding
EPISODE 56: A Little Heat Makes a Stronger Worm (opens the original)
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Welcome to the next episode of The Worm Podcast 🔥 Can a little bit of stress actually make you stronger? In C. elegans , the answer appears to be yes. This episode explores heat hormesis — the idea that a short exposure to mild heat can prepare an animal to cope better with a much harsher challenge later. Researchers exposed young adult worms to 30 °C for six hours , allowed them to recover, and then subjected them to a stronger heat shock. The primed worms were considerably more resistant. 🔥 Th
EPISODE 55: The Worm’s Stress Network (opens the original)
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Welcome to the next episode of the WOrM Podcast 🪱⚡ Today we are looking at how one stress-response protein helps a worm adapt to changing conditions. At the centre of the story is PMK-1 , the C. elegans equivalent of p38 MAP kinase. Rather than acting through one fixed pathway, PMK-1 changes its molecular partners across development, tissues and environmental stress. The result is a flexible network that helps generate phenotypic plasticity . ⸻ 🧬 Meet ContinuumID The researchers developed Contin
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