Heredity Podcast

Jan 28 2025 107 ep. 19 mins 17
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Popgroup 2025, with Katja Guschanski

Jan 28 2025 20 mins  
Katja Guschanski discusses working with mammal evolution, museomics and her plenary talk at Popgroup 2025

Meet the editors: Bastiaan Star

Jan 14 2025 25 mins  
Meet Heredity editor Bastiaan Star (University of Oslo), we talk about his work with ancient fish DNA and why he enjoys working with Heredity.

From dish to big data, neuronal regeneration in mice

Dec 02 2024 25 mins  
Genomics is about patterns, but finding them, or even knowing what to look for, is difficult. In this episode we talk to Noah Simon about the clever approaches he took to investigating the genomics of neuronal regeneration in mice.

The violet carpenter bee & the European Reference Genome Atlas

Oct 29 2024 25 mins  
DNA sequence data promises to enable the study of biodiversity and its response to threats. However, much of this potential depends upon the availability of reference genomes. We hear about the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) from its Chairperson, Rob Waterhouse (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics). We also hear from ERGA member Will Nash (Earlham Institute) about his quest t

What do editors do?

Sep 26 2024 15 mins  
Even non-academics hear a lot these days about the peer review process, but how does this work behind the scenes? In this episode we meet another new associate editor, Sebastian Ramos Onsins. We also find out what editors do at the journal from Co-editor-in-chief Sara Goodacre and editorial assistant Sandra Huettenbuegel.

Genetic simulations with SLiM

Aug 27 2024 21 mins  
The use of genetic simulations is gaining popularity. In this episode we learn about SLiM (https://messerlab.org/slim/), one of the most popular software packages, from one of its creators - Ben Haller.

New associate editor: Diala Abu Awad

Jul 30 2024 12 mins  
Down in the engine room of a scientific journal are its associate editors, they arbitrate the peer-review process and make the whole system run. Heredity's newest editor is Diala Abu Awad, in this episode we find out a bit about her and her work.

Avoiding inbreeding in Iberian Wolves

Jun 25 2024 29 mins  
Living near humans and human infrastructure has ecological effects on many species. Iberian wolf populations in human-dominated landscapes are unable to disperse as far as they would in the past. We find out how they are coping with this change, from Dr Carolina Pacheco, Dr Raquel Godinho and Dr Francisco Álvares.

Mosquito population structure and gene-drives

May 29 2024 23 mins  
Gene-drives hold great potential for the control of biological pests, but first they need to be thoroughly tested under appropriate conditions. In this episode we discuss some new work assessing whether mosquito populations in Northern Australia could be used to test a gene-drive targeting malaria mosquitoes.

Alternative splicing and thermal adaptation in mice

Apr 23 2024 20 mins  
Genes are recipes for proteins and proteins do stuff. But if a gene can make more than one protein, how does that affect genetic variation and the possible routes to adaptation? We get an introduction to the topic of adaptive alternative splicing from David Manahan.