The Genomics Life
By Kelly
Behind the scenes stories of the people, their innovations, and exciting work in the field of genomics
The Genomics LifeMar 10, 2020
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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, GRCh38. We also get to hear about her work at companies such as Personalis, 10X Genomics, and now at Inscripta, where she works with tools to accelerate genome editing using CRISPR . Deanna also discusses finding a good mentor and a good project and how biology is the ultimate integration problem requiring a multidisciplinary effort! You can find Deanna on twitter @deannachurch
Mar 10, 202044:45
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 videos here: omgenomics.com
Mar 03, 202046:29
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: irp.nih.gov/pi/adam-phillippy
Feb 22, 202054:17
Dr. Alexis Battle on machine learning in human genomics
In this episode I talk to Alexis Battle about her experiences from Stanford as an undergrad, as an engineer at Google, her PhD experience, and the work she has done at Johns Hopkins using machine learning to understand rare variants and the human genome. A link to the Battle Lab: www.bme.jhu.edu/faculty_staff/alexis-battle-phd/
Feb 22, 202044:31