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Cosmic Radio

Cosmic Radio

By: Elizabeth Garcia
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Cosmic Radio with host Elizabeth Garcia, NASA Ambassador. A show devoted to Space and Star watching. There will be interviews and information about current space missions, observatory information and local resources about the night sky over Mendocino. Tune in on the first Wednesdays of the month at 3:30 PM here in KZYX and Z© 2025 Elizabeth Garcia Astronomy Astronomy & Space Science Science
Episodes
  • Cosmic Radio Interview with Dr. Joseph Heitman: Professor and Chair of Molecular Genetics and Professor in Medicine at Duke University and CIFAR's Co-Director for the Fungal Kingdom: Threats & Opportunities Research Program
    May 2 2025

    Join me on Cosmic Radio as we speak with Dr. Joseph Heitman.
    Dr. Heitman is a professor and Chair of Molecular Biology and Professor in Medicine at Duke University and CIFAR's Co-Director for the "Fungal Kingdom: Threats and Opportunities" Research Program. Last month Dr. David Hibbett gave us an introduction into the fascinating study of the Fungal Kingdom. This month Dr. Heitman talks about the threats to humans, animals and plants by fungi and the breakthrough treatments and promising medicines that fungus can give us. We also talk about FUNGUS IN SPACE!
    Your going to love this interview!!
    check out the following links and learn all about Dr. Joseph Heitman's work:

    • https://mgm.duke.edu/profile/joseph-heitman
    • https://cifar.ca/research-programs/fungal-kingdom/
    • https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-white-nose-syndrome
    • https://cifar.ca/cifarnews/2024/08/21/cifar-researchers-discover-potential-treatment-for-a-fungus-devastating-amphibian-populations-worldwide/
    • https://cifar.ca/bios/david-s-blehert/
    • https://www.v-meer.de/my-co-space


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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Cosmic Interview with Dr. David Hibbett; Biology Professor at Clark University with an focus on Evolutionary Mycology
    Apr 4 2025

    Join me for a fascinating interview with Dr. David Hibbett, Biology Professor from Clark University who focuses on Evolutionary Mycology.
    Dr. Hibbett answers questions we all think about and want to know more about from the Fungal Kingdom. He is so fun and passionate about fungi and after listening to this interview, I hope that you will also become a "mycophile"!!! (lover of fungi)

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Cosmic Radio: Interview with Dr. Silvano Colombano
    Mar 9 2025

    Join my for an amazing thought-provoking interview with Dr. Silvano Colombano! Dr. Colombano is a retired NASA Biophysicist. He is now working on his original doctoral thesis and writing a new paper about the Nature of Life: Implications for the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis.
    His computer modeling studies are helping Dr. Colombano understand the origins of life and how the languages of life, DNA coding, originate and work. Dr. Silvano was mind blowing!!!

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    58 mins
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