The Ballad of the Nine Inch Snails with Bea Ramiro

This week, we have the triumphant return of those marvelous mollusks, the cone snails! We're talking to Bea Ramiro from the Safavi Lab at the University of Copenhagen, who is looking at a potential medical use for cone snail venom. In the news, we hop aboard the de-hype train, talk about fusion fuel, sing a black hole song, and explore a secret garden. Plus a new line of cone snail merch at our website, scinight.com/merch!

Your Hosts]
James Reed
Steffi Diem
Jason Organ

Our Guest
Bea is a graduate student at the University of Copenhagen and member of the Safavi Lab. Her work on the biomolecular properties of cone snail venom has taken her around the world to learn and work on potential hidden uses in its chemical makeup. She's also a great science communicator and teacher, especially when she gets to teach children about her work with these marvelous mollusks.

Credits
Editing-James Reed
Mastering- James Reed

Music:

• Intro and Outro- Wolf Moon by Unicorn Heads | https://unicornheads.com/ | Standard YouTube License
• Additional Sounds- Inside a Computer Chip by Doug Maxwell |https://www.mediarightproductions.com/ | Standard YouTube License
• 5,000 Exoplanets: Listen to the Sounds of Discovery (NASA Data Sonification) by NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Russo, A. Santaguida (SYSTEM Sounds)
• Data Sonification: Black Hole at the Center of the Perseus Galaxy Cluster (X-ray) by NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand, SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)

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