Molecular Biology: DNA Replication and Repair | MITx on edX | Course About Video Enroll in Molecular Biology: DNA Replication and Repair from MITx at https://www.edx.org/course/molecular-biology-dna-replication-repair-mitx-7-28-1x Molecul... By: edX … Continue reading →

A Q A with Bioentrepreneur Rob Carlson Rob Carlson is a physicist, bioentrepreneur, consultant, author, and serious very serious advocate of synthetic biology. He recently Joined PLOS Synthetic Biology to give us his thoughts... By: PLOS Video Channel … Continue reading →

The Health Bridge Podcast The Biology of Depression with Guest Jay Lombard 100th episode! And boy do we have a good one! This week Sara Gottfried and Pedram Shojai welcome Jay Lombard to The Health Bridge. Jay co-founded Genomind which specializes in psychiatry ... By: Well.org … Continue reading →

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By SHIRA POLAN Prof. Amy Williams, computational biology, is most likely not your relative, at least within the last 10 generations. But the newly instated Cornell professor spends much of her time studying your family tree or rather, the genetic tree of all modern humans in order to better understand the complex history of human demographics. Williams, a graduate of the University of Utah, first became interested in population genetics and parent-to-child genetic transmission during her Ph.D. work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I went to grad school expecting to do very traditional computer science but ended up taking a genetics class for my minor [and] really just fell in love with it, she said. For my Ph.D., I ended up developing an algorithm for inferring the way in which DNA gets transmitted from parents to children in single families. I then got a postdoc in a human population genetics lab and have continued to fall in love with the discipline. Following graduate school, Williams pursued postdoctoral positions at Harvard Medical School and Columbia University before beginning research as an assistant professor in the Department of Computational Biology and Population Genetics last April. Next fall, Williams will teach a … Continue reading →