Genetics in Your World

In this episode of Genetics in Your World, GSA Early Career Scientist Multimedia Subcommittee member Sarah Gilmour has a conversation with Dr. Guðjón Ólafsson of NYU Langone Health and University of Iceland about his attempts to “humanize” the yeast kinetochore and how the difficulties of doing so teach us about the evolution of essential kinetochore proteins. Read Dr. Ólafsson’s paper titled, “Humanization reveals pervasive incompatibility of yeast and human kinetochore components,” published in the January 2024 issue of G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics: https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkad260. Music: Loopster Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Genetics in Your World, GSA Early Career Scientist Multimedia Subcommittee member Sarah Renee Phillips has a conversation with Dr. Scott Dawson of UC Davis about the unique biology and challenges of studying the parasite Giardia lamblia. Read Dr. Dawson’s paper titled, “Harnessing the power of new genetic tools to illuminate Giardia biology and pathogenesis,” published in the April 2024 issue of GENETICS: https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyae038. Music: Loopster Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Genetics in Your World, Early Career Scientist Multimedia Subcommittee member Tammy Lee has a conversation with Dr. Jordan Brown, a recent alumnus from the University of Chicago, about factors involved in gene silencing mediated by small RNAs. Read Dr. Brown’s paper titled, “Sensitized piRNA reporter identifies multiple RNA processing factors involved in piRNA-mediated gene silencing,” published in the August 2023 issue of GENETICS: ​​https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyad095. Music: Loopster Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.