This podcast is part of a miniseries of interviews with speakers from the 2022 annual conference of the Adelphi Genetics Forum - a learned society that aims to promote research and discussion concerning the scientific understanding of human heredity. Formerly known as the Galton Institute, and before that, the Eugenics Education Society, the society has changed its name to the Adelphi Genetics Forum to firmly reject and distance itself from the discredited and damaging ideas of its namesake, Francis Galton – widely viewed as the founder of eugenics.
Anneke Lucassen is Professor of Genomic Medicine & Director of the Centre for Personalised Medicine at the University of Oxford and Professor of Clinical Genetics at the University of Southampton. Her talk, titled “Genomic Medicine, Diverse Data and the Language of Race, Ancestry and Ethnicity” explored the issues caused by a lack of diversity in genomic databases, and the challenges of addressing this in a way that doesn’t cause additional injustice and harm. Kat Arney started by asking why it’s so necessary to do this work.
You can find out more about the Adelphi Genetics Forum, including their grants, awards and publications, at adelphigenetics.org You can check out the rest of this series on the Genetics Unzipped podcast feed – just search for Genetics Unzipped on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. This series was produced by the team at First Create The Media – that’s Kat Arney, Sally Le Page and Emma Werner, with help from Ed Prosser and Frankie Pike. Our music is Drops of H2O by J. Lang, licensed under Creative Commons.
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S6.26: The battle for biology: How Mendel came to rule the world
S6.25: 2023 Unzipped
S6.24: Genes, junk and the ‘dark genome’
S6.23: 40 years of HIV: the disease that broke the rules
S6.22: Dumb luck: Amazing adaptations from happy little accidents
S6.21: Time of your life: how circadian rhythms shape the world
S6.20: That’s so extra: Exploring the weird world of extrachromosomal DNA
S6.19: Food for the future: Helping plants adapt to a changing world
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S6.18: An Evolutionary Revolutionary: Alfred Russel Wallace and the discovery of natural selection
S6.17: Vax to the future: The science of DNA and RNA vaccines
S6.16 Double helix double crossing? What really happened between Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Francis Crick?
S6.15: Cordelia Langford: Making Big Science Happen
S6.14: Tracking COVID and tackling obesity: Meet this year’s Genetics Society award winners
S6.13: Kings, car parks and consent: should we sequence DNA from human remains?
S6.12: Da Vinci’s DNA: What happens when genetics meets art
S6.11: Meet the DNA Detectives hunting the causes of cancer
S6.10: Space invaders: The amazing adaptations of tardigrades
S6.09: Raiders of Noah’s Ark: Stealing genetic tricks from the animal kingdom
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