The Functional Breeding Podcast
Science:Life Sciences
This episode, Ji Khalsa is interviewing me, Jessica Hekman, DVM, PhD. I'm a veterinarian turned behavioral geneticist turned teacher and founder of the Functional Dog Collaborative, or FDC. I graduated from Tufts Veterinary School in 2012 with a dual veterinary and master's degree, which was on stress in hospitalized dogs. I completed a veterinary shelter medicine specialty internship at Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Florida. I completed a PhD in Genetics, Genomics, and Biomedical Sciences in Kukekova Lab at the University of Illinois, studying genetic differences in the stress system in lines of foxes bred to be less afraid of humans compared to foxes bred to be aggressive. I did post-doctoral work at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and now teach online for Virginia Tech and run the FDC. Ji asked me to talk about the FDC - how it's coming, what we're doing, what we need help with. So here it is!
Sophie Liu, DVM: The Doberman Diversity Project
Linda Seaver: Berner University
Jenna Dockweiler, DVM, DACT: Theriogenology, the Study of Beast Making
Sara Reusche: Breeding Mixy-Mix Sports Dogs for the First Time
Jane Russenberger: Managing a Population of Guide Dogs
Trish McMillan, CPDT, CDBC, ACCBC: Where Do Good Dogs Come From?
Deb Jones, PhD: Good Traits for a Sports Dog (and Pet)
Julie Norman Jenkins: Breeding Dogs as Athletes and Pets
Introduction to the Functional Dog Collaborative
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