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Podcast: HMW DNA, Personalized Cancer Vaccines, and Structural Variation

There’s a great new podcast interview with Stanford clinical geneticist and oncologist Hanlee Ji about targeting extremely large stretches of DNA by combining CRISPR methods, automated DNA purification with the SageHLS instrument, and 10x Genomics technology. The approach works with … more »

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Podcast: Blogger Keith Robison on the State of Sequencing

A new podcast from Mendelspod takes a look at the state of sequencing in 2018. It’s a lively and interesting discussion about the current and future landscape of genomics between host Theral Timpson and Keith Robison, founder of the Omics! … more »

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Podcast: Genome Assembly Guru Deanna Church on Linked Reads and Single-Cell Genomics

If you’ve ever relied on the human reference genome, don’t miss this podcast with assembly pioneer Deanna Church. Mendelspod’s Theral Timpson interviews the genome informatics expert who made her name as an integral part of the reference project at the … more »

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Podcast: Nanopore Expert Mark Akeson on Challenges and Opportunities in Sequencing

Mark Akeson knows a thing or two about perseverance. After spending years as a soil biologist in Guatemala where he endured a series of parasite infections, he went on to become a pioneer in nanopore sequencing technology, which he has … more »

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Podcast: Structural Variation Pioneer Evan Eichler on Moving Toward the Clinic

We’ve been big fans of the structural variation work coming out of Evan Eichler’s University of Washington lab for years, so when he was the subject of a Mendelspod interview, we couldn’t wait to listen. If you missed the podcast, … more »

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Moving to the Clinic: Interview with BC Cancer Agency’s Marco Marra

Mendelspod’s recent interview with Marco Marra of the BC Cancer Agency and the University of British Columbia is well worth a listen. In the podcast, Marra describes his team’s use of genome and transcriptome sequencing for patients whose cancer is … more »

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Podcast: Kari Stefansson on 20 Years of Human Genomics

Mendelspod has turned out another terrific podcast, this one with Kari Stefansson, and we’re proud to have sponsored the thought-provoking discussion. As most people in the field know, Stefansson earned his fame as founder of DeCode Genetics, which has spent … more »

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Podcast: Cornell’s Chris Mason on Sequencing, Subways, and Outer Space

If you’re looking for out-there ideas in genomics, there’s no better place to start than with Chris Mason’s lab at Weill Cornell Medical College. We were delighted that Mason was featured in the latest podcast from Mendelspod and its host … more »

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Sequencing Podcast: Better DNA Extraction Needed for Large-Fragment Libraries

If you haven’t listened yet to the Mendelspod interview with Bobby Sebra from the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at Mount Sinai, we can’t recommend it highly enough. And that’s not because we happen to be sponsoring this … more »

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New Mendelspod Series Kicks Off with Arizona’s Rod Wing

We’re proud to be sponsoring a new series of podcasts from the great folks at Mendelspod, who have been producing informative interviews with interesting scientists for several years now. We don’t have anything to do with the podcasts themselves, but … more »

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