I team up with James Burgon, of the Heredity Journal Podcast, to bring you a run down of the highlights of the 55th meeting of the Population Genetics Group conference, hosted in Norwich as a collaboration between the Earlham Institute, John In

MARPLE, identifying wheat rust pathogens

Dec 11th, 2021 14m 24s

Diane Saunders & Dave Hodson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cancer, antibiotics and the microbiome

Sep 15th, 2021 29m 2s

Alastair McKee from the Quadram Institute discusses his paper linking the microbiome to breast cancer.Our microbiota help us digest the food we eat, but also has effects on health and disease that reach far beyond the gut - including cancer. A

The role of HEI10 in crossover interference

Sep 2nd, 2021 30m

Coauthors Chris Morgan and John Fozard from the John Innes Centre join me to talk about their recent paper.Using a combination of high-tech microscopy and mathematical modelling they have shown that relatively simple behaviour of a single prot

Colonisation genetics and the tree bumblebee

Aug 27th, 2021 22m 29s

Ryan Brock, from the University of East Anglia, discusses his paper on the recent colonisation of the UK by the tree bumblebee.What can several approaches to investigating this species' genetic diversity have tell us about how it made the jump

Trailer

Aug 23rd, 2021 3m 20s

A short introduction to Abstract Bioscience - a podcast bringing you the latest research from across the Norwich Research Park, and beyond.Host Michael Pointer introduces the show, gives some details about the kinds of topics we will be discus

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