
The Genomics Life
Behind the scenes stories of the people, their innovations, and exciting work in the field of genomics
Podcasting since 2020 • 6 episodes
The Genomics Life
Latest Episodes
Julie Messersmith on coordinating the research and response to COVID-19 at Johns Hopkins University
Julie Messersmith, Executive Director for Research at Johns Hopkins, discusses her roles in the strategies involved in bringing multi-disciplinary researchers together to work on COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2. She shares information about the p...
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Episode 6
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Dr. Elodie Ghedin on the covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic
In a special episode, I speak to Elodie Ghedin about the pandemic and global health crisis we are facing. Elodie is a virologist and professor at NYU in Biology and Global Public Health. She studies microbial pathogens including human parasites...
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Episode 5
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Dr. Deanna Church on building informative reference genomes and accelerating genome editing
Deanna Church talks about her early work on cri-du-chat syndrome, mouse developmental biology (plus the allergy she developed!), her time at NCBI working on the mouse reference genome and improving and standardizing the human reference genome, GRC...
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Episode 4
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Dr. Maria Nattestad on visualizing the complexities of genomes
Maria talks about starting her own company right out of grad school, working for DNAnexus and Google, solving visualization problems, deep learning in genomics, and so much more. You can find links to Maria’s tools and bioinformatics training vide...
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Episode 3
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Dr. Adam Phillippy on complete human chromosomes and beyond
Adam is well known for many bioinformatics tools including MUMmer, Canu, Mash, Krona, and we talk about the development of them, TIGR history lessons, long reads, and so much more. You can find out more about Adam here: https://irp.nih.gov/pi/a...
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Episode 2
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