Blue Genes and Boots
The Texas A&M Genetics Program has a podcast! Blue Genes & Boots is a podcast series where faculty and students talk about the fun science going on right here at Texas A&M University. Graduate students also share insights on how to pursue a PhD and jump-start a career in science.
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Blue Genes and Boots
Special Guests: Drs. Paul Christou and Makoto Saito
Welcome to Blue Genes and Boots, everyone!
In this episode, Sarah talked to two speakers from the 2024 Genome Editing Symposium at Texas A&M: Dr. Paul Christou and Dr. Makoto Saito. Dr. Christou is an ICREA research professor at Universitat de Lleida (UdL) Life and Medical Sciences. Dr. Saito is a senior scientific fellow conducting post-doctoral research in Dr. Feng Zhang’s lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology McGovern Institute. We invite you to listen in on what they have to say about their path to their current positions, impactful moments and colleagues encountered during their career, and their advice for aspiring graduate students.
If you’d like to learn more about our guests, please visit the following websites:
Dr. Christou: https://www.icrea.cat/Web/ScientificStaff/paul-christou-319
Dr. Saito:
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=caJcp0cAAAAJ&hl=en
Feng Zhang lab: https://www.zlab.bio/
Genome Editing Symposium 2024: https://genomeeditingsymposiumtamu.wordpress.com/
If you want to know more about the research discussed in this episode or about the Genetics program at Texas A&M, please visit the following websites:
Genetics IDP: https://genetics.tamu.edu
Genetics Graduate Student Association: https://g2sa.tamu.edu