Lab Rat Chat

Lab Rat Chat

Science EN ↓ 64 episodes

A podcast dedicated to providing an accurate and alternate narrative to the public regarding the necessity of humane and ethical animal research. Lab Rat Chat was made possible through the Michael D. Hayre Fellowship in Public Outreach, which is sponsored by the biomedical research advocacy group Americans for Medical Progress.

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Lab Rat Chat

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Science

Podcast website

labratchat.buzzsprout.com

Latest episode

Jul 1, 2026

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Episodes

News Bite - February 2022 18.02.2022

Send us Fan Mail News Bites are monthly episodes where Danielle and Jeff break down important topics surrounding the field of biomedical research (and some unrelated topics). In this News Bite edition, Jeff and Danielle discuss: A new way to treat bacterial pneumonia in mice without using antibiotics Chimpanzees catching insects and using them to treat their wounds Paralyzed men able to walk again...

26. Defeating Diabetes with Dr. Roy Taylor 10.02.2022

Send us Fan Mail Lab Rat Chat - Episode 26 with Dr. Roy Taylor In this episode of Lab Rat Chat, Danielle and Jeff chat with Dr. Roy Taylor,  a physician and author, who is currently the Director of Newcastle Magnetic Resonance Centre at Newcastle University.   He has been conducting research on type 2 diabetes since 1978 and in 2011, Taylor showed that the disease was a simple, reversible conditio...

News Bite - January 2022 24.01.2022

Send us Fan Mail News Bites are monthly episodes where Danielle and Jeff break down important topics surrounding the field of biomedical research (and some unrelated topics). Purchase Lab Rat Chat merch and help support the podcast and biomedical research! https://labratchat.myteespring.co/ In this News Bite edition, Jeff and Danielle discuss: A new type of vaccine to combat addiction, specificall...

News Bite - December 2021 20.12.2021

Send us Fan Mail News Bites are monthly episodes where Danielle and Jeff break down important topics surrounding the field of biomedical research (and some unrelated topics). Purchase Lab Rat Chat merch and help support the podcast and biomedical research! https://labratchat.myteespring.co/ In this News Bite edition, Jeff and Danielle discuss: A new therapy utilizing "dancing molecules"...

25. Monkey Business 30.11.2021

Send us Fan Mail Lab Rat Chat - Episode 25 with Lindsay Bader Purchase Lab Rat Chat merch and help support our podcast and biomedical research! https://labratchat.myteespring.co/ In this episode of Lab Rat Chat, Danielle and Jeff chat with Lindsay Bader, who is a Senior Research Associate at the Oregon National Primate Research Center.   Lindsay has a ton of hands-on experience  working with many...

News Bite - October 2021 25.10.2021

Send us Fan Mail News Bites are monthly episodes where Danielle and Jeff break down important topics surrounding the field of biomedical research (and some unrelated topics). Purchase Lab Rat Chat merch and help support the podcast and biomedical research! https://labratchat.myteespring.co/ In this News Bite edition, Jeff and Danielle discuss: In recognition of October being Breast Cancer Awarenes...

News Bite - September 2021 01.10.2021

Send us Fan Mail News Bites are monthly episodes where Danielle and Jeff break down important topics surrounding the field of biomedical research (and some unrelated topics). Purchase Lab Rat Chat merch and help support the podcast and biomedical research! https://labratchat.myteespring.co/ In this News Bite edition, Jeff and Danielle discuss: A dissolvable pacemaker that has some really awesome a...

24. Dare 2 Care with J. Preston Van Hooser 31.08.2021

Send us Fan Mail Lab Rat Chat - Episode 24 with J. Preston Van Hooser Purchase Lab Rat Chat merch and help support our podcast and biomedical research! https://labratchat.myteespring.co/ In this episode of Lab Rat Chat, Logan and Jeff chat with Preston Van Hooser, who is a Review Scientist and Compliance Manager at the University of Washington (UW) who has worked to protect the integrity and excel...

23. Getting Real with Cindy Buckmaster 31.07.2021

Send us Fan Mail Lab Rat Chat - Episode 23 with Dr. Cindy Buckmaster Purchase Lab Rat Chat merch and help support our podcast and biomedical research! https://labratchat.myteespring.co/ In this episode of Lab Rat Chat, Logan and Jeff chat with Cindy Buckmaster, who has been involved in the field of laboratory animal science for over 25 years. She is involved in educational and public outreach orga...

News Bite - July 2021 31.07.2021

Send us Fan Mail News Bites are monthly episodes where Danielle and Jeff break down important topics surrounding the field of biomedical research (and some unrelated topics). Purchase Lab Rat Chat merch and help support the podcast and biomedical research! https://labratchat.myteespring.co/ In this News Bite edition, Jeff and Danielle discuss: How snake venom has been used to create a new medical...

News Bite - June 2021 29.06.2021

Send us Fan Mail News Bites are monthly episodes where Danielle and Jeff break down important topics surrounding the field of biomedical research (and some unrelated topics). Purchase Lab Rat Chat merch and help support the podcast and biomedical research! https://labratchat.myteespring.co/ In this News Bite edition, Jeff and Danielle discuss: The use of gene editing in mice to cure sickle cell di...

22. Rat Tickling?! 23.06.2021

Send us Fan Mail Lab Rat Chat - Episode 22 with Dr. Megan LaFollette, an animal behavior & welfare scientist, researcher, & project manager Purchase Lab Rat Chat merch and help support our podcast and biomedical research! https://labratchat.myteespring.co/ In this episode of Lab Rat Chat, we have a special co-host, Dr. Logan France, who will fill in for Danielle for a few episodes, tune in...

News Bite - May 2021 18.05.2021

Send us Fan Mail News Bites are monthly episodes where Danielle and Jeff break down important topics surrounding the field of biomedical research (and some unrelated topics). Purchase Lab Rat Chat merch and help support the podcast and biomedical research! https://labratchat.myteespring.co/ In this News Bite edition, Jeff and Danielle discuss: Jeff beginning his 4th and final year of vet school De...

21. Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month 05.05.2021

Send us Fan Mail Lab Rat Chat - Episode 21 with Rebecca Welch and Kody Jernigan Purchase Lab Rat Chat merch and help support our podcast and biomedical research! https://labratchat.myteespring.co/ May is Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month! In this episode of Lab Rat Chat, Danielle and Jeff chat with Rebecca Welch, a lab animal vet at West Virginia University and Kody Jernigan, her husband, who is liv...

News Bite - April 2021 01.05.2021

Send us Fan Mail News Bites are monthly episodes where Danielle and Jeff break down important topics surrounding the field of biomedical research (and some unrelated topics). Purchase Lab Rat Chat merch and help support the podcast and biomedical research! https://labratchat.myteespring.co/ In this News Bite edition, Jeff and Danielle discuss: Jeff finally completing his third year of vet school N...

20. Chatting with Dr. Sally Thompson-Iritani 07.04.2021

Send us Fan Mail Lab Rat Chat - Episode 20 with Dr. Sally Thompson-Iritani, Director (Interim) Washington National Primate Research Center Purchase Lab Rat Chat merch and help support our podcast and biomedical research! https://labratchat.myteespring.co/ In this episode of Lab Rat Chat, Danielle and Jeff chat with Dr. Sally Thompson-Iritani.  Sally has worked in the animal welfare, compliance and...

News Bite - March 2021 25.03.2021

Send us Fan Mail News Bites are monthly episodes where Danielle and Jeff break down important topics surrounding the field of biomedical research (and maybe some unrelated topics as well). Purchase Lab Rat Chat merch and help support the podcast and biomedical research! https://labratchat.myteespring.co/ In this edition of News Bites, Jeff and Danielle discuss: Jeff's third year of vet school...

19. Creepy Crawlers - Fleas and Ticks 25.03.2021

Send us Fan Mail Lab Rat Chat - Episode 19 with Dr. Brian Herrin, Assistant Professor and Veterinary Parasitologist at Kansas State College of Veterinary Medicine Purchase Lab Rat Chat merch and help support our podcast and biomedical research! https://labratchat.myteespring.co/ In this special episode of Lab Rat Chat, Dr. Brian Herrin joined us by video to record an episode for the 2021 Student A...

News Bite - February 2021 07.03.2021

Send us Fan Mail News Bites are monthly episodes where Danielle and Jeff break down important topics surrounding the field of biomedical research (and maybe some unrelated topics as well). Purchase Lab Rat Chat merch and help support the podcast and biomedical research! https://labratchat.myteespring.co/ In this edition of News Bites, Jeff and Danielle discuss: Llamas and their impact in developin...

News Bite - January 2021 22.01.2021

Send us Fan Mail News Bites are monthly episodes where Danielle and Jeff break down important topics surrounding the field of biomedical research. Purchase Lab Rat Chat merch and help support the podcast and biomedical research! https://labratchat.myteespring.co/ In this edition of News Bites, Jeff and Danielle discuss: Proposed legislation that has an impact on the use of animals in biomedical re...

18. Toxoplasmosis - From Cats to Mice 19.01.2021

Send us Fan Mail Lab Rat Chat - Episode 18 with Dr. Laura Knoll, Professor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Purchase Lab Rat Chat merch and help support our podcast and biomedical research! https://labratchat.myteespring.co/ In this episode of Lab Rat Chat, Dr. Laura Knoll joined the show to talk about her super important and interesting research inv...

News Bite - December 2021 24.12.2020

Send us Fan Mail First installment of Lab Rat Chat News Bites where Danielle and Jeff break down important topics. Purchase Lab Rat Chat merch and help support our podcast and biomedical research! https://labratchat.myteespring.co/ In this new series of episodes to complement the usual interview style episodes you've grown accustomed to on Lab Rat Chat, Danielle and Jeff break down and inform...

17. Advancing Organ Transplantations 11.12.2020

Send us Fan Mail Lab Rat Chat - Episode 17 with Dr. Sherrie Clark, Professor and Clinician at Virginia Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine   Purchase Lab Rat Chat merch and help support our podcast and biomedical research! https://labratchat.myteespring.co/ In this episode of Lab Rat Chat, Dr. Sherrie Clark, a veterinarian and one of Jeff’s professors at Virginia Maryland College of Veterinary...

16. The Frontline Heroes within Animal Research 26.11.2020

Send us Fan Mail Lab Rat Chat - Episode 16 with Lisa Roberts from the University of Connecticut   Purchase Lab Rat Chat merch and help support our podcast and biomedical research! https://labratchat.myteespring.co/ In this episode of Lab Rat Chat, Danielle and I talked with Lisa Roberts, RLATg, a veterinary technician at the University of Connecticut.  We had a very interesting conversation about...

15. Chat with Legal Drugs Podcast 06.11.2020

Send us Fan Mail Lab Rat Chat - Episode 15 with Angela Stoyanovitch, Founding Partner and Host of Legal Drugs Podcast.    Follow us on Twitter ! Facebook ! Instagram ! https://twitter.com/thelabratchat https://www.facebook.com/labratchat https://www.instagram.com/thelabratchat In this episode of Lab Rat Chat, Danielle and I had a chat with Angela Stoyanovitch, B.A., LATG, who is the Founding Partn...

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