Lab Rat Chat

About Lab Rat Chat

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.

Publisher

Lab Rat Chat

Category

education · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Jan 2020

Latest episode

29 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

65 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Jul 2026

   38. Translational Conversations Ep. 4 - Love, Loss, and the Treatment of Prolonged Grief

   Send us Fan Mail This week on Translational Conversations, we talk with Dr. Zoe Donaldson, a prairie vole researcher, and Dr. Katherine Shear, a human researcher, about how their work has inspired and influenced each other’s research on attachment bonding, love and loss, and the development of Prolonged Grief Disorder. In this episode, Dr. Donaldson and Dr. Shear discuss the role of the brain’s reward system in grief, how grief differs from depression, the special bonding of prairie voles tha...

2. 

   15 Jul 2026

   37. Translational Conversations Ep. 3 - Heterogeneity and Neurobiology of Alcohol Use Disorder

   Send us Fan Mail In this next installment of Translational Conversations, we talk with Dr. Danny Winder, a mouse researcher, and Dr. Jenni Blackford, a human researcher, about how their years of collaborations across species have revealed important insights into the different ways Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) can present in individuals. We hear about how their translational research process has led to significant scientific discoveries regarding the relevant brain circuits and sex differences t...

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   1 Jul 2026

   36. Translational Conversations Ep. 2 - Early Life Adversity and Vulnerability for Mental Illness

   Send us Fan Mail In the second episode of the Translational Conversations special series, we talk with Dr. Millie Rincón-Cortés, a rodent researcher, and Dr. Lana Ruvolo Grasser Winters, a human researcher, about how their work in each species is important for examination of ways early life adversity influences the development of our brain and nervous system. Drs. Rincón-Cortés and Grasser Winters share how these complementary approaches help us better understand vulnerability for mental illn...

Who has been a guest on Lab Rat Chat

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Dr Alan Dove
• Dr Michael Chen
• Dr Alejandro Torrado-Pacheco
• Dr Jodi Salinsky DVM

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

54 ratings

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