Category: Genetics
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Megan Dillon, North Carolina State University – The Dogs of Chornobyl
We think we know what causes mutations in dogs at Chornobyl, right? Megan Dillon, PhD graduate from the Genetics program at North Carolina State University, says that might not be the case. Megan is a recent PhD graduate from the Genetics program at North Carolina State University. Her dissertation work focused on the free-breeding dogs…
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Sawsan Wehbi, University of Arizona – Resolving the Order of Amino Acid Recruitment Into the Genetic Code
Our genetic code still holds mysteries for us to discover. Sawsan Wehbi, Genetics Ph.D. candidate at the University of Arizona, takes a look. I am a fourth year PhD candidate majoring in genetics and minoring in astrobiology. I am interested in the origins of life on Earth. My research focuses on early life proteins and…