Genomics Revolution
58 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 2 ratingsPodcast associated with Hiram College Genetics course. Focus is on the history of genomics and how a genomic view of life has impacted basic science as well as applied fields such as medicine and agriculture.
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MERS - A Recent, Ongoing But Overshadowed Coronavirus Epidemic
April 24, 2020 03:55 - 4 minutes - 4.21 MBGenomics Revolution Guest Hosts: Matthew Hecker & Miranda Mordue Episode 54: MERS Coronavirus- Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-related coronavirus Hello, and welcome to Genomics Revolution. This is Matthew Hecker, and this is Miranda Mordue, bringing you in from the Hiram College Genetics course of 2020. As we stand in April 2020, the world is currently in a state of flux with COVID-19, a novel coronavirus that is taking the world by storm, and not in a good way. In li...
SARS - The First Coronavirus Near-Pandemic
April 24, 2020 03:40 - 5 minutes - 4.77 MBGenomics Revolution Guest Hosts: Denise Hart & Madyson Morris Episode 53: SARS Coronavirus Welcome to Genomics Revolution. This is Denise Hart and Madyson Morris from the 2020 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode on the SARS coronavirus. The acronym SARS stands for Severe Acute Respiratory System.1 To distinguish between the virus and the disease it causes, we will call the virus the SARS coronavirus and the disease SARS from here on out. Today, we will disc...
Zika - The World Traveler Builds Up to a Scare
April 24, 2020 03:30 - 2 minutes - 2.79 MBGenomics Revolution Guest Hosts: Keegan Rankin and Torey Coward Episode 52: Zika Script: Keegan: Hello welcome to the podcast! I'm Keegan! Torey: And I’m Torey Coward! Keegan: And we are here today to talk to you about the Zika Virus. I’ll start us off with some general information. The Zika Virus belongs to a group of viruses known as flaviviruses. Flaviviruses are single-stranded RNA viruses encapsulated by a protein coat. Some of Zika Virus’ closest relatives ...
Out of the Woods: Ebola as a Zoonotic Viral Disease
April 24, 2020 03:05 - 5 minutes - 5.46 MBGenomic Revolution Guest Hosts: Alexus Acton & Rachna Prasad Episode 51: Ebola Script: Rachna: Welcome to Genomics Revolution. This is Alexus Acton and Rachna Prasad from the 2020 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode on the Zaire Ebolavirus. This virus causes the disease ebola that originated from human animal contact, most likely from a bat (1). The Ebola Virus Disease, or EVD for short, was first discovered in 1976 with 2 consecutive outbreaks of fatal hemorrh...
Alexander the Great, Watch Out for the Dead Birds!
April 24, 2020 02:50 - 3 minutes - 3.35 MBGenomics Revolution Guest Hosts: Alysa Giudici & Rachel Jerkins Episode 50: West Nile Fever Script: Rachel: Hey everybody, and welcome to another episode of Genomics Revolution. This is Rachel Jerkins and Alysa Giudici (Guh-Dee-Cee), here to talk about the West Nile Virus. Rachel: The West Nile Virus comes from the flavivirus genus and the family flaviviridae. In 1937, the virus was first discovered in the West Nile area of Uganda in Africa. It is a single-stranded RNA v...
The Insane Zoonotic Trip That is Rabies
April 24, 2020 02:25 - 4 minutes - 4.56 MBGenomics Revolution Guest Hosts: Giselle Bahena & Diamond Johnson Episode 49 – Rabies Lyssavirus Script: Welcome to Genomics Revolution. This is Giselle Bahena and Diamond Johnson from the 2020 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode covering the Rabies lyssavirus. As the scientific name of this virus implies, the disease that results from such infection is commonly known as Rabies. This disease has been around since antiquity and the earliest writings ab...
Trailer: Zoonotic Viral Diseases
April 24, 2020 02:20 - 45 seconds - 805 KBBrad sets the table for the last set of 2020 Hiram College Genetics course guest podcasts.
Update on Current HIV Treatments
April 24, 2020 02:20 - 4 minutes - 3.98 MBSome More Information on How HIV Causes AIDS & on New Drugs: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BADDj82oces (Battle between HIV & Immune System video from Nature Reviews) https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/30/727731380/old-fight-new-front-aids-activists-want-lower-drug-prices-now (National Public Radio (NPR) segment “AIDS Activists Take Aim at Gilead to Lower Price of HIV Drug PrEP” https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/06/11/731350223/expert-panel-recommends-w...
HIV & AIDS - The Killer That Robs Us of Our Immune Defenses
April 23, 2020 21:50 - 4 minutes - 4.61 MBGenomics Revolution Guest Hosts: Emily Harris & Tim Murton Episode 48: HIV & AIDS Script: Welcome to Genomics Revolution! This is Emily Harris and this is Tim Murton. We are from the 2020 Hiram College Genetics course, and we are hosting this episode on the genome of Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or HIV. HIV targets a host’s immune system and causes it to fail. This complication is referred to as HIV infection, and can eventually develop into acquired immunodeficiency s...
HPV - The Trigger Behind Several Cancers
April 23, 2020 21:25 - 4 minutes - 4.6 MBGenomics Revolution Guest Hosts: Sheree Nobles & Joshua Gregory Episode 47: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Script: Josh- Hello everyone, and welcome to this episode of Genomics Revolution! We’re your guests hosts today, Sheree Nobles and Joshua Gregory. Today we’ll be talking about Human Papillomavirus, or HPV as it’s commonly known. This is a sexually transmitted infection, and to keep on topic with this year’s theme, it’s a virus. Sheree- There isn’t a scientific name f...
Hepatitis C - Until Now, the Silent Hepatitis Epidemic
April 23, 2020 19:30 - 5 minutes - 5.46 MBGenomics Revolution Guest Hosts: Abbey Anderson & Samantha Mansfield Episode 46: Hepacivirus (Hepatitis C) Script: Hello! This is Sammie and Abbey coming at you live from a safe social distance! Today we are here to talk to you about Hepacivirus which is commonly known as Hepatitis C virus. We are going to spend some time talking about when and how the virus was discovered, the reasons that we should care about this virus, the genome of Hepatitis C, and key findings abo...
Trailer - Sexually Transmitted & Blood-borne Viruses
April 23, 2020 07:10 - 49 seconds - 875 KBBrad jumps in with a trailer for 4 episodes dealing with viruses that are transmitted by sex and transfer of bodily fluids.
Hepatitis B - B for Blood and Other Bodily Fluids
April 23, 2020 07:05 - 3 minutes - 2.87 MBGenomics Revolution Guest Hosts: Ciara Love & Cara Katzendorn Episode 45: Hepatitis B Virus Script: Hi, my name is Ciara and today we’re going to talk about a virus called Hepatitis B. This virus is a type of species in the orthohepadnavirus genus as well as a member of the hepadnaviridae family. This virus causes a world-wide known disease called Hepatitis B or HBV. HBV causes liver cancer and the vaccine that was invented for Hepatitis B was one of the first anti-cancer v...
Soon We Can Say Goodbye to Polio
April 23, 2020 05:55 - 57 seconds - 1000 KBGenomics Revolution Kiyana Caver & Brittany Weaver Genetics Podcast Transcript Episode 44: Poliovirus Script: Hello, I am Kiyana & I am Brittany and we will discuss the virus poliovirus which causes polio. Polio can also be known as poliomyelitis. It stems from the Greek meaning of an inflammation of the gray matter. In the early 20thcentury there weren’t many diseases that had parents worried about the health and wellbeing for their children. However, poliomyeliti...
Viral Pathogen No More - See Ya Smallpox
April 23, 2020 03:55 - 6 minutes - 6.21 MBGenomics Revolution Mit Patel and Andrew Pemberton Episode 43: Variola Virus (Cause of smallpox) Script: Welcome to the Genomic Revolution Podcast! This is Mit Patel and Andrew Pemberton from the 2020 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode on an orthopoxvirus known as the Variola virus. This virus causes the disease that many of our parents or grandparents may have gotten when they were younger but rather for us millennials we are vaccinated for it. The variola vir...
Trailer - Wiping Viruses Out
April 23, 2020 03:35 - 1 minute - 1.11 MBBrad jumps in with a short trailer introducing some viruses that we have conquered or nearly conquered.
Type B - The Other Influenza
April 23, 2020 03:15 - 3 minutes - 3.63 MBGenomics Revolution Brianna Bays and Melika King Episode 42 Influenza Type B Virus Script: Welcome to Genomics Revolution. This is Brianna Bays and Melika King from the 2020 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode over Influenza virus type B commonly known as the flu virus. The common symptoms are fever, muscle aches, headache, lack of energy, sore throat, and nasal congestion (1). Complications can rise due to immune status and underlying medical conditi...
Influenza Type A
April 23, 2020 02:50 - 5 minutes - 5.5 MBGenomics Revolution Benjamin Blake Erman and Ciza Sadoke Episode 41: Influenza Virus Type A Script: Hello and welcome to Genomics Revolution. Today’s episode is hosted by me, Blake Erman and my partner, Ciza Sadoke, which we’ll hear from later on in the podcast. We are from Brad Goodner’s 2020 Hiram College Genetics course and today we will be focusing on the virus Influenza Type A. This virus causes Influenzae which can give you the symptoms of; a fever, chills, headaches,mu...
Measles - Will We Ever Be Done With It?
April 23, 2020 02:00 - 3 minutes - 3.68 MBGenomics Revolution Podcast Allison Slutz & Cole Filer Episode 40: Measles & Morbillivirus Hi all. Welcome back to another episode of Genomics Revolution. Today you are hosted by Cole Filer and myself, Allison Slutz. We are part of the 2020 Hiram College genetics course and will be talking about the Measles morbillivirus, the virus that causes the measles. The genus that morbillivirus is apart of, is the family Paramyxoviridae (1). The measles virus genome typically consist...
No Chicken in Chickenpox or Shingles
April 23, 2020 01:15 - 4 minutes - 3.94 MBZach Walker & Alainna Conroy Virus: Varicella zoster virus Disease: Chickenpox/ Shingles Welcome to today’s episode of Genomics Revolution. I am Zach Walker and am here with Alainna Conroy and we will be discussing the varicella zoster virus. We will be referring to this as the VZV. BACKGROUND/ DISCOVERY: In 1888, Von Bokay first observed that the VZV was related herpes zoster virus or shingles when children contracted VZV from adults who had shingles. Then in 1954, ...
The Viral Age Begins
April 22, 2020 20:40 - 5 minutes - 5.05 MBGenomics Revolution Podcast Episode 38: The Viral Age Begins Host: Brad Goodner, Professor of Biology & Biomedical Humanities at Hiram College Transcript: Welcome back. Now that we have a basic definition of a virus – a RNA or DNA genome surrounded by a protein shell called a capsid, let us put that definition into some historical context. When did we humans come to realize that viruses existed? When did we realize that they were different from cellular life forms? The Vi...
A New Season, A New Normal
March 20, 2020 23:30 - 3 minutes - 2.67 MBGenomics Revolution Podcast Episode 37: A New Season, A New Normal Host: Brad Goodner, Professor of Biology & Biomedical Humanities at Hiram College Transcript: Welcome to our 2nd season of Genomics Revolution. I am your host, Brad Goodner. Along with this new season of podcasts comes a new normal that all of us are dealing with – the COVID-19 pandemic. I hope that you and your loved ones are not just safe and healthy, but that you are finding new ways to engage with the wo...
Survey of Genomes - Saccharomyces cerevisiae
July 12, 2019 16:45 - 6 minutes - 5.85 MBWelcome to Genomic Revolution. This is Curtis Swearingen from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode on the genome Saccharomyces cerevisiae S288C. This strain is from the fungal division Ascomycota and the family Saccharomycetaceae. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is an eukaryotic microbe. More specifically, it is a globular-shaped, yellow-green yeast belonging to the Fungi kingdom, which includes multicellular organisms such as mushrooms and molds. Natural strains ...
Survey of Genomes - Even Most Eukaryotes are Microbial
July 06, 2019 08:45 - 4 minutes - 4.54 MBWelcome back to Genomics Revolution. Brad Goodner jumping back in to our Survey of Genomes guest-hosted by students from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course. You have probably been wondering “hey, when are they going to talk about the human genome?” We will get to it in time, but I am big believer that we humans need to see the biological world through a non-human dominated lens. Life on Earth, contrary to what our eyes tell us, is actually dominated by microbes – in cell num...
Survey of Genomes - Fusobacterium nucleatum ATCC 25586
May 21, 2019 03:00 - 4 minutes - 3.9 MBHey guys welcome to this guest podcast of Genomics Revolution hosted by yours truly Hunter Jenkins of the 2019 spring Genetics class of Hiram College. In this episode, we will be zeroing in on the specific strain Fusobacterium nucleatum ATCC 25586 which I will now refer to as F. Nucleatum. This strain is a subspecies of Fusobacterium nucleatum named nucleatum which can be found in the human oral cavity, (cough) your mouth. This organism is from a Genus of Fusobacterium, and famil...
Survey of Genomes - Buchnera sp. APS
May 20, 2019 17:45 - 5 minutes - 5.52 MBWelcome to Genomics Revolution. This is Hannah Mann from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode on Buchnera aphidicola sub species Acyrthosiphon Pisum, or Buchnera sp. APS. Named after Paul Buchner, a pioneer in the field of symbiotic microbiology of sap sucking insects. Buchnera sp. APS is a type of microbe found in the gut of pea aphids (Acyrthosiphon Pisum). The endosymbiotic relationship between these two organisms goes back over 160 million years and is ti...
Survey of Genomes - Thermotoga maritima MSB8
May 18, 2019 00:45 - 5 minutes - 5.41 MBHello all, this is Tae’lor Jones from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course, and today on this episode I will reveal some interesting information on the genome Thermotoga maritima MSB8, which I will refer to as T. maritima from here on out. So, sit back and fasten your seat belts because you’re going to learn all the incredible wonders of this amazing organism just within 3-5 minutes! T. maritima, a non- spore- forming, or in other words non-pathogenic, rod -shaped bacterium belong...
Survey of Genomes - Deinococcus radiodurans
May 16, 2019 04:25 - 4 minutes - 4.66 MBWelcome to Genomics Revolution! My name is Nicole Ryman and I will be hosting this episode to discuss the genome of a bacterium with a Guinness World Record! Deinococcus radiodurans claimed the record for “Most radiation-resistant lifeform” by being capable of withstanding 1.5 million rads of gamma radiation, which is about 3,000 times the lethal amount to kill a human. The bacterium is capable of not only surviving, but also reproducing in environments that would be lethal for any...
Survey of Genomes - Chlorobium tepidum TLS
May 15, 2019 16:50 - 6 minutes - 6.31 MBWelcome to Genomics Revolution. This is Kerington Vickers from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode on the genome of Chlorobium tepidum TLS. I will call this C. tepidum from here on out. This strain of thermophilic green sulfur bacteria was isolated from acidic high sulfide hot springs on North Island, New Zealand (3). This organism is part of the Chlorobiaceae family which are also called green sulfur bacteria. Green sulfur bacteria use sulfide ions as elec...
The True Extreme Athletes - Extremophiles
May 15, 2019 11:00 - 8 minutes - 7.45 MBWelcome back to Genomics Revolution. This is Brad Goodner. I freely admit that I am a sports nut. I love watching humans compete against themselves and each other under stressful conditions. I also grew up intrigued by extreme athleticism in non-human animals – the world’s fastest mammal or longest-distance migrant. I don’t think I am alone in being intrigued by survival and even more so by high performance under conditions that seem way beyond the norm. I bring this up today ...
I Don’t Think It Means What You Think It Means
April 18, 2019 16:00 - 7 minutes - 6.77 MBBrad Goodner here. It is great to be back with you after some more student-hosted episodes of Genomics Revolution. Did the title of today’s episode bring a chuckle or a smile to your face? It is one of many memorable lines from one of my favorite movies – The Princess Bride. Vizzini, the big-brained Sicilian kidnapper says “Inconceivable” every time the so-called “Man in Black” makes it past a huge obstacle. Vizzini’s hired swordsman, the Spaniard Inigo Montoya finally turns to...
An Interlude on Pathogen Genomes
April 15, 2019 23:00 - 4 minutes - 4.62 MBHey, Brad Goodner here. It has been several episodes since I last got the chance to talk with you. I hope you are enjoying the Survey of Genomes episodes guest hosted by students from my 2019 Hiram College Genetics course. There are more of those episodes to come, but I wanted to jump in and provide some context. So far, 4 out of the 7 student-hosted episodes have dealt with human pathogens. Why sequence their genomes? Don’t we just want to kill pathogens in order to cure infe...
Survey of Genomes - Pseudomonas aeruginosa
March 29, 2019 06:00 - 5 minutes - 4.76 MBWelcome back to Genomics Revolution, this is Kiara Jeffrey from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode on the genome of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PAO1, which I will call P. aeruginosa from now on. This rod-shaped, gram-negative bacterium belongs to the Bacteria class gamma-Proteobacteria and the family Pseudomonadaceae (2). P. aeruginosa was first discovered in 1882 when a French bacteriologist and chemist, Carle Gessard, noticed a blue and green color devel...
Survey of Genomes - Ralstonia solanacearum
March 29, 2019 06:00 - 3 minutes - 3.53 MBWelcome to Genomics Revolution. This is Sam Hitchcock from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course and I will be hosting this episode on the genome of Ralstonia solanacearum GMI1000. R. solanacearum is a beta-proteobacterium, which is a class of proteobacteria that occupy diverse environments as pathogens living within hosts. R. solanacearum is no different, this pathogen is soil borne and infects roots. Different strains of R. solanacearum are able to attack 200 different hosts. The...
Survey of Genomes - Rickettsia prowazekii
March 29, 2019 06:00 - 3 minutes - 3.3 MBWelcome to Genomics Revolution. This is Jake Lininger from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course. Today we will look at Rickettsia prowazekii or R. prowazekii for short. During WWI, epidemic typhus infected around 30 million humans (1). R. prowazekii had been discovered previously as a causal agent for typhus, or typhus fever, but how it infects humans was yet to be discovered. In 1928, Dr. Charles Nicolle received a Nobel prize for discovering the vector for this infection; huma...
Survey of Genomes - Clostridium perfringens
March 29, 2019 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5 MBWelcome to Genetics Revolution. This is Ashley Redman from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode of clostridium perfringens. Clostridium perfingens, CP for short, is a gram positive anaerobic, spore-forming, bacterium known to be the most widely distributed pathogen in nature. It is commonly found in soil, sewage, raw meat, and in the intestines of animals and humans as a member of the normal flora. The clostridium perfringens strains are classified into five g...
Survey of Genomes - Schizosaccharomyces pombe
March 29, 2019 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.35 MBWelcome to Genomics Revolution. I am Brett Bentkowski, from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics Course and it is my pleasure to host this episode on Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the so called fission yeast. Fission yeast was first reported in 1893, by Paul Lindner, who isolated if from East African millet beer. It gets its species name pombe from the Swahili word for beer: pombe. It then went on to be used by Urs Leupold for genetic study, and then by Murdoch Mitchison for studying the ce...
Survey of Genomes - Thermoplasma acidophilum
March 29, 2019 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.3 MBHello my name is Nikkia Schady and today I will be talking to you about the organism Thermoplasma Acidophilum. Thermoplasma Acidophilum is a thermoacidophilic archaeon. It is classified as being in the archaea domain due to its membrane lipid composition, evolutionary ribosomal RNA and conserved proteins. (2) Thermoplasma Acidophilum is also in the subgroup Euryarchaeota and it’s strain is Thermoplasma acidophilum DSM 1728. (3) From here on out I will just call it Thermoplasma as a ...
Survey of Genomes - Treponema pallidum
March 29, 2019 06:00 - 3 minutes - 3.17 MBMy name is Daijah Sek, and on today’s episode I will be discussing Treponema pallidum which many of you may already be familiar with. In 1905, scientists Schaudinn and Hoffman identified this spiral-shaped bacterium as a causative agent of syphilis. However, we now suspect with more recent research done that this may have originated and been present as far back as in the Columbus era in the 1400s in Europe. It’s subspecies can cause yaws and bejel in restricted regions of the world....
Survey of Genomes - Vibrio cholerae strain El Tor N16961
March 29, 2019 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.2 MBWelcome to Genomics Revolution. This is Danielle Vincent from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course, and I will be your host for this episode on the genome of Vibrio cholerae El Tor N16961. Now, just to make things a bit easier, I’ll go ahead and refer to this organism as V. cholerae for the remainder of this episode. V. cholerae is a gram-negative, gamma-Proteobacterium that you may already recognize as it’s the bacterium that causes the disease Cholera (1). In 1854, during the th...
Survey of Genomes - Yersinia pestis strain KIM
March 29, 2019 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.02 MBWelcome to Genomics Revolution. My name is Alexis Polcawich from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode on the genome called Yersinia Pestis. This is a gram negative, nonmotile, rod-shaped coccobacillus bacteria that does not form spores and is a facultative anaerobe. This bacterium was discovered in 1894 by Alexandre Yersin in Hong Kong. Yersin was able to isolate the bacterium in culture and identified it via microscope. Jean-Paul Simond was Yersin’s inspirati...
Survey of Genomes - Caulobacter crescentus
March 29, 2019 06:00 - 3 minutes - 3.2 MBHello everyone, My name is Tim Stucky and today I’ll be taking you through the genetics of Caulobacter crescentus. Caulobacter was first proposed in 1935 by Henrici and Johnson, two researchers who found the bacteria in microscope slides with samples from a freshwater lake. It is considered a stalked organism, meaning it has a long tubelike extension in its mature form. This organism fit into the Caulobacteriales which was a newly found order for bacteria at the time of its disco...
Survey of Genomes - E. coli O157:H7
March 29, 2019 06:00 - 3 minutes - 3.45 MBWelcome to Genomics Revolution. I’m Taylor Yamamoto from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode on the genome of the bacteria Escherichia Coli O157:H7. I will be calling it E. Coli from now on. This strain of E. Coli is the most harmful strain to humans because it produces a toxin, called Shiga toxin, that causes bloody diarrhea and hemolytic-uremic syndrome, which is when red blood cells get damaged, and then cause a blockage in the kidneys. This can lead to li...
Survey of Genomes - Drosophila melanogaster
March 29, 2019 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.63 MBHello, and welcome back to genomics revolution. I am Kaitlyn Morse a guest scientist here today to talk about the organism Drosophila melanogaster, or what we know as the fruit fly. We may think of this insect as a pest but, it has been one of the most useful organisms in a biology/ genetics lab to date. You may be asking how is that possible? A small fly? Let’s discuss why Drosophila has become so important. The discovery of Drosophila occurs in 1830 but, the first time Drosophila...
Survey of Genomes - Halobacterium NRC-1
March 29, 2019 06:00 - 3 minutes - 2.86 MBHello all, today I will be talking about Halobacterium NRC-1, or ATCC 700922. Halobacterium is a genus of Halobacteriaceae. The Halobacterium species is actually not a bacteria, however, it belongs to the archea domain. Halobacterium was originally studied in the 1960s, brine shrimp, who are filter feeders, would consume the Halobacterium, in turn, flamingos would eat the brine shrimp, giving them the pigment that they are. The genus Halobacterium ("salt" or "ocean bacterium") c...
Survey of Genomes - Methanococcus jannaschii
March 29, 2019 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.05 MBWelcome to Genomics Revolution. My name is Kritika Bhau and I am a student at Hiram College and currently taking the course called Genetics. I will be hosting the episode on the organism, Methanococcus jannaschii. It is also known as methanocaladococcus jannaschii. I will be calling the organism M. jannaschii throughout the podcast. M. jannaschii is important because it was also the first archaeon to have its complete genome sequenced. This sequence help identity many genes un...
Survey of Genomes - Mycobacterium tuberculosis
March 29, 2019 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.34 MBWelcome to Genomics Revolution. This is Anna Pallante and this episode will focus on the genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a pathogenic bacteria from the family Mycobacteriaceae that was discovered in 1882 by Robert Koch (1). Koch was able to isolate the bacteria from tissue samples from animals that were suffering from tuberculosis. However, he had to develop and use new staining and culturing techniques in order to do so. When the tissue sam...
Survey of Genomes - Campylobacter jejuni
March 29, 2019 06:00 - 4 minutes - 6.41 MBWelcome to Genomics Revolution. This is Ka Shing Allan So from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode on the genome of Campylobacter jejuni, or C. jejuni. C. jejuni falls under the Campylobacteraceae family, and the Campylobacter genus. Campylobacter jejuni was discovered by Theodor Escherich. In 1886, Escherich was studying stool specimens and large intestinal mucous correlated to diarrhea in kittens and in neonates. He published his result in “The Intestin...
Survey of Genomes - Aeropyrum pernix K1
March 29, 2019 06:00 - 3 minutes - 3.73 MBHi my name is Brayla Stokes and today will be talking about Aeropyrum pernix K1 and this genome is a species of Archaea. It was the first crenarcheote which is just a category of Archaea and first aerobic member of Archaea with a complete genome sequence. This organism helped us link the relationship between the three domains of life. In 1999 Aeropyrum pernix was discovered while heating and vent marine water sediments in Japan. It is circular in shape and its diameter is 1 micr...
Survey of Genomes - 2 Bifidobacterium Strains
March 29, 2019 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.13 MBWelcome to Genomics Revolution. This is guest host Stephanie Cipa from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course. I’m going to be talking about two strains of bacteria today; Bifidobacterium longum NCC2705 and Bifidobacterium longum ssp. longum 35624, previously known as Bifidobacterium infantis 35624. From here out I will be referring to them as B. longum 2705 and B. longum 35624. Lets dive right into it! B. longum has one circular chromosome made up of about 2,256,646 base pairs. I...