Gene Shorts 5

Spaced Out

Co-Host: Sarah Lando, Digital Communications Manager at Genome BC

Session 5 Trailer

Welcome to ‘Nice Genes!’ Season 5

Episode 01

Poo Dunnit

Dr. Natalie Prystajecky, Environmental Microbiologist, BCCDC and Clinical Associate Professor, University of British Columbia; Dr. Yemisi Bokinni, Health & Science Journalist

Episode 02

Babies and Breakthroughs

Tara Lynn Wenger, MD, PhD; Meredith Thomas

Episode 03

Genetics and the Silver Screen

Dr. Krysta Coyle, Research Associate, Simon Fraser University; Ayden Eilmus, Program Coordinator, Working Group on Pediatric Gene Therapy and Medical Ethics at the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Episode 04

Why Athletes Collapse

Dr. Prashant Rao, Attending Cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School; J.J. Machnik, a young wrestler who survived cardiac arrest; Jeff and Laura Machnik, J.J.'s parents

Gene Shorts 1

More cheese, please!

Co-Host: Sarah Lando, Digital Communications Manager at Genome BC

Gene Shorts 2

The Vitamin Verdict

Co-Host: Sarah Lando, Digital Communications Manager at Genome BC

Gene Shorts 3

Mutton, the Woolly Dog

Co-Host: Sarah Lando, Digital Communications Manager at Genome BC

Gene Shorts 4

Roach Encroach

Co-Host: Sarah Lando, Digital Communications Manager at Genome BC

Season 4 Trailer

Welcome to 'Nice Genes!' Season 4

EPISODE 1

Cosmetic Clarity

Isabelle Plante, Professor, INRS Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Director of the Intersectoral Center for Endocrine Disurptors Analysis (ICEDA)

EPISODE 2

The Antibiotic Debacle

Dr. Nadine Ziemert, Professor at University of Tübingen ; Dr. Rylan Duivestein, Family Medicine Physician ; Mark Leiren-Young

EPISODE 3

Testing, Testing HPV

Dr. Aisha Lofters, Clinician Scientist, Women's College Hospital ; Christina Price, Retired

EPISODE 4

Fatal Attraction: Insect Edition

Dr. Sarah Lower, Associate Professor of Biology, Bucknell University ; Dr. Peter Andolfatto, Professor at Columbia University in the City of New York

EPISODE 5

Slipping Through the Spectrum

Dr Hannah L. Belcher, Lecturer in User-Led Research, Health Service and Population Research, IoPPN, King's College London ; Dr. John N. Constantino, MD Liz and Frank Blake Chair for Children’s Behavioral and Mental Health,Chief, Center for Behavioral and Mental Health, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Pediatrics, and Genetics, Emory University

EPISODE 6

Lost but Found

Dr. Dirk van der Meer, Forensic Odontologist ; Dr Dadna Hartman, Manager Molecular Biology Laboratory, Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine

EPISODE 7

The Wasting Game

Cait Nelson, Wildlife Health Biologist, BC Ministry of Water, land and Resource Stewardship; Alfred Joseph - Community Member ʔakisq̓nuk Community ; Jeff Berdusco, Owner, Confluence Resource Management

EPISODE 8

Life in the Fast Lane

Dr. Tyrone Lavery, Lecturer Native Vertebrate Biology and Director Tiegs Museum; Dr. Nick Longrich, Palaeontologist and Evolutionary Biologist

Season 3 Trailer

Welcome to 'Nice Genes!' Season 3

EPISODE 1

Genes Jump

GUESTS: Dr. Anna Klompen, NSF Fellow and Postdoctoral Research Associate, Stowers Institute for Medical Research | Dr. Jessica Goodheart, Assistant Curator of Malacology/Assistant Professor of the Richard Guilder Graduate School | Dr. Ted Turlings, Professor in Chemical Ecology, University of Neuchâtel

EPISODE 2

Bananageddon

GUESTS: Dr. James Dale, with Queensland University of Technology and Mark Smith, Farm Manager at Darwin Fruit Farms

EPISODE 3

Nature is Queer

GUESTS: Julia Monk, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California-Berkeley and Dr. Robbee Wedow, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Data Science, Purdue University; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine

EPISODE 4

Not All Bad

GUESTS: Harriet Brown, Professor, Magazine, News & Digital Journalism, Syracuse University, Dr. Michael Lyon, Director Obesity Medicine and Diabetes Institute and Shantaquilette Carter,Writer and Comedian, Ozempics POV

EPISODE 5

The Dose Makes the Poison

GUESTS: Dr. Kimberly Garrett, Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Anna Klompen, PhD Candidate and Chancellor's Fellow, University of Kansas

EPISODE 6

The Circadian Rhythm

Dr. Hiroki Ueda, Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo; Dr. Andrew Coogan, Behavioural Neurologist, Maynooth University

EPISODE 7

Probing Pain

Adele Gonsalvez, Honours Student, Australasian Wildlife Genomics , Syndey University; Jackie Le, EM Diagnosed, Director at The Erythromelalgia Association and Joshua Griffiths, Senior Wildlife Ecologist

EPISODE 8

Reconciling the Truth

Tabitha Robin, UBC, Assistant Professor Indigenous Food Systems ; Wade Davis, Writer, Photographer, and Filmmaker ; J.B. Williams, Ethnobiologist, Knowledge Keeper, and Storyteller

Gene Shorts! E01

Heart of a Grizzly

Gene Shorts! E02

Mother Coquita

Gene Shorts! E03

All the Colours of the Rainbow

Sam Seguin, Technical Director at JAR Audio ; Jamie Kronick, Professional Musician and Photographer

Gene Shorts! E04

Jackalopes, Mythical Critters and the Cure for Cancer

Gene Shorts! E05

Are You Smarter Than a Chimp?

Gene Shorts! E06

Three Blind Mice

EPISODE 1

PIZZLY BEARS, ANYONE? PROTECTING LOCAL WILDLIFE ICONS

CO-HOST: DR. CHRISTINE WILKINSON / GUESTS: JENNIFER WALKUS & DR. DAVID PAETKAU

EPISODE 2

THE DEVIL'S IN THE DETAILS

GUESTS: DR. AXEL NEWTON & DR. CAROLYN HOGG

EPISODE 3

CALLS FROM THE DEEP: A GENOMIC WHALE OF A STORY

GUEST: DR. JENNIFER ALLEN / JOSHUA ZEMAN / DR. TRAVIS PARK

EPISODE 4

CRACKING THE CORAL CODE

GUEST: DR. SHAYLE MATSUDA / BEN WILLIAMS / MADELYN JONES

EPISODE 5

GERM SPOTTING

GUEST: DR. BIRGITTA EVENGARD, DR. MELANDRI VLOK, DR. JEAN-MICHEL CLAVERIE

EPISODE 6

UN-DIGGING THE HOLE

GUEST: DR. ARIA HAHN, DR. CHRISTIAN RINKE

EPISODE 1

GENETICS VS. GENOMICS: WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

GUEST: DR. SAMANTHA YAMMINE, “SCIENCE SAM”

EPISODE 2

THE RIGHT MEDS: CAN GENOMICS FIND THE PERFECT ANTIDEPRESSANT FOR YOUR BODY

GUEST: GENETIC COUNSELLOR DR. JEHANNINE AUSTIN

EPISODE 3

THE INVISIBLE FOOTPRINT: HOW THE HUNT FOR WILD SPECIES LEADS TO eDNA

CO-HOST: CYLITA GUY, PHD, ECOLOGIST, DATA SCIENTIST, SCIENCE COMMUNICATOR GUEST: GABI FLEURY, CONSERVATIONIST, TECHNOLOGIST, RESEARCHER

EPISODE 4

DECODING ANCESTRY – RACE IS NOT GENETIC

CO-HOST: DR. SHAWN HERCULES, POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER AT MCMASTER UNIVERSITY GUEST: DR. JANINA M. JEFF, AMERICAN GENETICIST AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF ‘IN THOSE GENES’

EPISODE 5

NODDING OUR TUSKS TO HEROIC MUTATIONS

GUESTS: DR. BRIAN ARNOLD -- BIOMEDICAL DATA SCIENTIST, EVOLUTIONARY GENETICIST AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY DR. MARIA PIA MIGLIETTA -- MARINE BIOLOGIST & ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

EPISODE 6

COLD CASE: SOLVING MURDER MYSTERIES WITH GENOMICS

GUESTS: CECE MOORE & EVE LAZARUS