In today's episode I spoke again to Dr Christopher Todd from the Babraham institute. Chris is a postdoctoral researcher in Wolf Reiks lab who talked to me about transposable elements and epigenetic priming of enhancers with human embryonic development. Chris gave a great talk at GREECS 2022 where he discussed his research and I absolutely loved his talk, so immediately messaged him to join me on the podcast!  If like me, you feel unclear on what exactly are transposable elements, the details of their function & classification and want to learn more about enhancer priming, stay tuned t ..read more

TGL made it to 2022! On todays episode, I spoke to Dr Benjamin Rein, a neuroscientist all the way from Stanford.  We speak all about Bens experience of science communication on social media, Ben uses Tik Tok & instagram to make awesome short videos on scientific papers and topics and has gained a following of +600,000 on tik tok! He also talks all about his passion for neuroscience, his PhD research and then we talked a lot about stuff we dont know a lot about!  Hope you enjoy this conversation & be sure to check Ben out on social media using the links below! Bens tik tok ..read more

In today's episode I spoke again to Dr Patrick CN Martin from the Biotech research and innovation centre at the University of Copenhagen, about spatial transcriptomics. Patrick is a post doctoral researcher who has been working on ST and more specifically, this pre print which we also took a deep dive into, on todays episode! Patricks new tool, named Vesalius (stay tuned to find out why) is able to decipher tissue anatomy from ST data by converting transcriptomic information into a color code for image segmentation.  The tool is able to successfully detect tissue architecture in mouse emb ..read more

This week I spoke to Alka Gupta. Alka has just finished up her PhD and begun her postdoctoral position at UCSC in the Sharma Lab where she is now working on epigenetic inheritance. Today we spoke about her PhD research in which she was looking at the role of microRNAs in male infertility. We learnt about Sertoli cells, spermatogenesis and shrinking testis! Tune in to find out more! Contact Alka here: https://twitter.com/alka_gupta__ GREECS registration link: TBC ..read more

Today I speak to Dr Paul Okunieff , founder and consultant of Diacarta. DiaCarta is a leading translational genomics and personalized diagnostics company based in California. DiaCarta provides highly sensitive and advanced technologies aiming to change the landscape of precision medicine and molecular diagnostics by impacting healthcare treatment plans and the well-being of individuals around the world. Today me and Paul chat about the use of biomarkers in genomics, we touch on his recent coauthored papers in nature scientific reports here. We also discuss some ethical issues behind biomarkers ..read more

Today I speak to Dr Paul Okunieff , founder and consultant of Diacarta. DiaCarta is a leading translational genomics and personalized diagnostics company based in California. DiaCarta provides highly sensitive and advanced technologies aiming to change the landscape of precision medicine and molecular diagnostics by impacting healthcare treatment plans and the well-being of individuals around the world. Today me and Paul chat about the use of biomarkers in genomics, we touch on his recent coauthored papers in nature scientific reports here. We also discuss some ethical issues behind biomarkers ..read more

On todays episode, I speak to Sudarshan Pinglay, a PhD student from NYU medical center. Sudarshan is involved in the dark matter project- we talk about the dark matter of the genome, where introns, repetitive and regulatory elements reside. Sudarshan works specifically on the HOXA locus. The Hox family of genes pattern the head to tail axis in the developing embryo. In mammals, there are are four separate clusters (HoxA,B,C and D). Both space and time of Hox gene expression is colinear to their sequence in the genome. Loss of this leads to serious defects.  Sudarshan talks ..read more

In todays episode, I speak to Dr Hamish King, a Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow affiliated with the Blizard Institute at Queen Mary University of London. Hamish is interested in how errors in gene regulation lead to changes in the behaviour and function of B cells, an important cell type in our immune system that makes antibodies to fight and remember infections. Hamish talks about how he uses wet lab and bioinformatic techniques to answer these questions. Dr King is also due to become a laboratory head at WEHI in early 2022, where his lab will focus on answering a range of questions including: How ..read more

Welcome to Episode 29 of The Genomics Lab! On today's episode we talk to Alexandria Andrayas who is a PhD candidate in the Soc-B Centre for doctoral training which is a new and unique programme in biosocial research. The programme is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council. It combines the strengths of the University of Essex, Manchester and UCL. The impact of smoking on health can be mediated through several biological pathways and it is well documented that smoking can be linked to large differences in DNA methylatio ..read more

Welcome to Episode 28 of The Genomics Lab! On today's episode we talk to Dr.Patrick CN Martin who is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen. He completed his PhD in Dr Radu Zabets lab in 2020 where he investigated the binding mechanisms of transcription factors to DNA. His research involved development of an R package, ChIPAnalyser. A user-friendly, versatile and powerful R/Bioconductor package predicting and modelling the binding of TFs to DNA. ChIPanalyser performs similarly to state-of-the-art tools, but is an explainable model and provides biological insights into bindin ..read more