The Biotech Podcast

#5 Professor Alison Woollard - Mutants, Darwin and Genetic Engineering

December 27, 2020 Harry B Houston Season 1 Episode 5
#5 Professor Alison Woollard - Mutants, Darwin and Genetic Engineering
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The Biotech Podcast
#5 Professor Alison Woollard - Mutants, Darwin and Genetic Engineering
Dec 27, 2020 Season 1 Episode 5
Harry B Houston

This week we talk to Alison Woollard, a professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford,  about her life's work in Developmental Biology. She offers her thoughts on the new, mutated coronavirus strain, the history of evolution and what GM technology might offer in the future.

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Full synopsis below:

00:00 - Intro
1:25 - Nematode Worms
10:33 - Developmental biology 
15:54 - Meiosis, Differentiation and Pluripotency
22:47 - Cancers and Transcription factors
34:10 - Mutations and Coronavirus
42:17 - Heredity and Evolution
50:20 - Deepmind and Alphafold
55:03 - Genetic engineering
1:05:39 - Book recommendations
1:09:37 - Extro





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This week we talk to Alison Woollard, a professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford,  about her life's work in Developmental Biology. She offers her thoughts on the new, mutated coronavirus strain, the history of evolution and what GM technology might offer in the future.

If you are interested in helping The Biotech Podcast please take 30 seconds to take the following survey: https://harry852843.typeform.com/to/caV6cMzG

Full synopsis below:

00:00 - Intro
1:25 - Nematode Worms
10:33 - Developmental biology 
15:54 - Meiosis, Differentiation and Pluripotency
22:47 - Cancers and Transcription factors
34:10 - Mutations and Coronavirus
42:17 - Heredity and Evolution
50:20 - Deepmind and Alphafold
55:03 - Genetic engineering
1:05:39 - Book recommendations
1:09:37 - Extro