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Genetics in Your World

By: Genetics Society of America
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  • Highlighting recent scientific articles published in GSA journals and share the story behind the work to make genetics studies more accessible to an interdisciplinary community of scientists.

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Episodes
  • Ep. 9. Interrogating Fungal Pathogens & Inspired Leadership – A Discussion With Dr. Christina Cuomo

    Ep. 9. Interrogating Fungal Pathogens & Inspired Leadership – A Discussion With Dr. Christina Cuomo
    Apr 3 2024
    In this episode of Genetics in Your World, Sarah Renee Phillips interviews Dr. Christina Cuomo about her paper "Impact of pathogen genetics on clinical phenotypes in a population of Talaromyces marneffei from Vietnam," published in the August 2023 issue of GENETICS. Dr. Cuomo elaborates on the diversity and evolution of a deadly fungal pathogen from southeast Asia and how she and her colleagues used a combination of population genomics and genome-wide association studies to identify evolutionary pattern and process as well as genes influencing patient experiences and health outcomes.

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    35 mins
  • Ep. 8. Unexpected Discoveries in Drosophila – A Conversation with Dr. Hunter Hill

    Ep. 8. Unexpected Discoveries in Drosophila – A Conversation with Dr. Hunter Hill
    Feb 16 2024
    In this installment of Genetics in Your World, we talk to Dr. Hunter Hill of the University of Montana. He discusses unexpected recent discoveries made while completing his PhD with Dr. Kent Golic at the University of Utah, surrounding new and exciting data about the breakage pattern of chromosomes in Drosophila. He provides advice for others when encountering obstacles during their graduate studies. Check out the paper, "Dicentric chromosome breakage in Drosophila melanogaster is influenced by pericentric heterochromatic and occurs in non-conserved hotspots," published in the June 2023 issue of GENETICS.

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    26 mins
  • Ep. 7. HIMs and ZIMs in C. elegans meiosis – A Conversation with Ting Gong

    Ep. 7. HIMs and ZIMs in C. elegans meiosis – A Conversation with Ting Gong
    Jan 4 2024

    In this installment of Genetics in Your World, we talk to Ting Gong of UC Davis. She discusses the surprising results she found when disrupting meiotic chromosome segregation in C. elegans.



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    18 mins
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