New Genes from Scratch - Aoife McLysaght
Oct 30, 2017•1 hr 26 min
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Episode description
Aoife McLysaght explores the evolution of new genes, how they sometimes become essential, and the link between new genes and disease including cancer.
Aoife's lecture was given as the 2016 JBS Haldane Lecture from the Genetics Society.
Aoife McLysaght is a geneticist at Trinity College Dublin. She specialises in the the origin and evolution of new genetic sequences and was the first to discover a set of genes that only occur in humans. She has appeared on TV to discuss her work and is a regular contributor to radio shows on BBC Radio 4 and columns in the Irish Times.
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