The Traverse Science Podcast: Recent Episodes

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The Traverse Science podcast explores topics in Nutrition, Neuroscience, Statistics, and Data Science.

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Dr. Kelly Swanson returns to the podcast for a conversation about fiber and fiber research! In part two of this two-part episode, Stephen and Kelly discuss:

  • Introduction
  • Fiber in pet foods
  • Intersectional effects of fiber
  • Study design in nutrition and the role of fiber
  • Complexities in nutrition research and small interdisciplinary communities
  • Getting quantitative: human research, fiber, and confounding variables
  • What to keep in mind when studying fiber

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Dr. Kelly Swanson returns to the podcast for a conversation about fiber and fiber research! In part one of this two-part episode, Stephen and Kelly discuss:

How do you eat your bananas?
Background and the definition of fiber
Solubility, viscosity, and water holding capacity
Recommendations about fiber
Donors and in vitro testing in fiber research
What variables matter most in fiber research
Fiber and food

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Our guest in this episode is Ryan Dilger, Traverse co-founder and professor of Animal Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In today’s interview, Ryan and Stephen talk about the challenges of interdisciplinary research, using data to personalize animal agriculture, and how academics and industry can learn from one another.

00:00:00 - Introduction
00:04:38 - Navigating the connection between basic science and applied science to achieve better outcomes
00:06:40 - Understanding the role of specialization in interdisciplinary research: roles, communication, and interpretation
00:12:14 - Roles of animal agriculture in our food supply and environment
00:20:15 - The role of technology in the future of animal agriculture
00:31:06 - Complex problems and narrowing the literature
00:37:28 - How animal science improves human health
00:40:01 - Role of butyrate
00:57:02 - Personalized nutrition
01:01:31 - Future of animal agriculture and biomedical research
01:07:14 - Do early life differences actually matter?

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Consumer packaged goods companies have opportunities to guide consumers on a journey to better nutrition. Drs. Robbie Burns and Stephen Fleming discuss how a deeper knowledge about product ingredients helps to build healthier lifestyles and consumer loyalty. They also chat about going beyond ‘free-from’ claims to provide more beneficial nutrition information that could be of greater value to consumers.Link to IFIC Survey discussed
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In this xpost Andrea Wien, host of The Microbiome Report via BIOHM Health, interviews Stephen Fleming to chat about short chain fatty acids and what we know about them in relation to gut health.

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BIOHM Health

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Dr. Kelly Swanson and Dr. Stephen Fleming continue their conversation on postbiotics, discussing additional terms like synbiotics, more experimental design chat about postbiotics, and funding in industry and government.

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Dr. Kelly Swanson and Dr. Stephen Fleming chat about postbiotics, what the term means, challenges in developing them, and experimental design.

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Stephen interviews Kristina Campbell from the KC Microbiome Communications Group. They chat about science communication, being educational vs entertaining, if there is a difference between marketing and communication, and more!

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In this episode, Matthew, Vinh, and Stephen discuss the importance of being open and transparent with your data.

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In this episode, we invite Matthew Hesson-Mcinnis a professor of Psychology at Illinois State University to talk about dealing with outliers in your data.

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In this 2nd episode, we invite Matthew Hesson-Mcinnis a professor of Psychology at Illinois State University to talk about power analysis, sample size, and what it means to have adequate statistical power.

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In this first episode, we invite Matthew Hesson-Mcinnis a professor of Psychology at Illinois State University to talk about the Statistics of personality testing such as the Myer's Briggs test.

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