Genomics Podcast

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AI Powered Multiomics: Joachim Schmid on Data Analysis at Illumina

Mar 03, 2025 | Episode 87 | 24 mins

In this episode, Theral Timpson dives into the burgeoning field of multiomi...

The Genomic Revolution Transforming Public Health in Africa with Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) with Professor Martin Nyaga

Jan 23, 2025 | Episode 86 | 33 mins

In this episode of the Illumina Genomics Podcast Illumina’s Amadou Gueye, M...

How Do You Train Genomics AI? On Natural Selection Itself, Says VP of Illumina's AI Lab, Kyle Farh

Apr 18, 2024 | Episode 84 | 29 mins

In this podcast, Mendelspod’s Theral Timpson speaks to Kyle Farh, VP and di...

Illumina Scales Variant Calling and Genome Interpretation to Improve Gaps in Genetic Testing

Apr 18, 2024 | Episode 83 | 32 mins

In this podcast, Mendelspod’s Theral Timpson is joined by Sam Strom, a prin...

Two Industry Leaders on the Growing Complexity of Genomic Cancer Data

Apr 18, 2024 | Episode 85 | 33 mins

In this podcast, Mendelspod’s Theral Timpson speaks to Cara Statz from JAX ...

ctDNA-guided treatment in colorectal cancer

Apr 10, 2024 | Episode 82 | 5 mins

Jeanne Tie, MD, discusses the DYNAMIC trial and areas of unmet needs for mi...

Clinical utility of ctDNA testing in lung cancer

Apr 10, 2024 | Episode 80 | 5 mins

Atocha Romero, PharmD, PhD, explains the value of liquid biopsy-based compr...

Does finding a rare mutation accomplish anything?

Apr 10, 2024 | Episode 81 | 5 mins

Rachel E. Sanborn, MD, presents the journey of a patient diagnosed with aty...

Liquid biopsy NGS in cancer care

Apr 26, 2023 | Episode 79 | 6 mins

Pashtoon Kasi, MD, MS, explains how liquid biopsy next-generation sequencin...

Genetic counselling in an era of prenatal screening, tools to support patient informed consent

Apr 03, 2023 | Episode 78 | 12 mins

Listen to Genetic Counsellors Katie Ellis and Patricia Winters, Illumina di...

Testing for NTRK Fusions

Nov 11, 2022 | Episode 77 | 7 mins

Vivek Subbiah, MD, explains how patients with rare and common tumors can be...

Homologous Recombination Deficiency (HRD) Testing in Ovarian Cancer

Nov 11, 2022 | Episode 76 | 6 mins

Isabelle Ray-Coquard, MD, PhD, explains how comprehensive genomic profiling...

Pharmacogenomics: Barriers and Opportunities to Implementation

Apr 26, 2021 | Episode 75 | 27 mins

Dr. Ronald Leopold discusses implementation of pharmacogenomic screening in...

The Impact of Pharmacogenomics on Precision Medicine

Apr 21, 2021 | Episode 74 | 30 mins

Why does a medication effectively “cure” one patient while having little to...

Metagenomics in the time of Covid-19: Clinical Metagenomics

Apr 01, 2021 | Episode 72 | 26 mins

Robert Schlaberg and Lauge Farnaes from IdByDNA join us in a two-part inter...

Metagenomics in the time of Covid-19: Emerging Pathogens

Apr 01, 2021 | Episode 73 | 20 mins

Robert Schlaberg and Lauge Farnaes from IdByDNA join us to talk about the e...

Genomic surveillance and testing for SARS-CoV-2

Mar 16, 2021 | Episode 71 | 25 mins

Christopher Mason from Weill Cornell Medicine discusses his multifaceted ap...

Exploring the Genomic Diversity of Africa

Mar 01, 2021 | Episode 70 | 32 mins

Although Africa is the continent with the highest amount of genetic diversi...

Developmental Biology Meets Immunotherapy

Sep 03, 2020 | Episode 69 | 24 mins

Although most developmental genes are silenced in adult somatic cells, some...

Genomics and the End of the Diagnostic Odyssey

May 13, 2020 | Episode 68 | 21 mins

Whole genome sequencing can help diagnose genetic diseases in days and hold...

Standardization of Clinical Whole Genome Sequencing

May 11, 2020 | Episode 67 | 21 mins

Whole genome sequencing has the potential to supplant the traditional stepw...

Rapid Genome Sequencing of Critically Ill Children

Apr 29, 2020 | Episode 65 | 24 mins

Genetic diseases are the leading cause of death among infants that are hosp...

Integrating Genomics with Behavioral Sciences

Apr 22, 2020 | Episode 64 | 26 mins

Behavioral medicine holds the promise of helping scientists better understa...

Growing the Invertebrate Tree of Life with Genomics

Apr 01, 2020 | Episode 63 | 19 mins

Invertebrates make up 95% of all animal species. They’ve been around for hu...

DNA Structural Variants from Microscope to Sequencer

Mar 19, 2020 | Episode 62 | 23 mins

Structural variants are relatively large changes in DNA sequence across the...

Finding Rare Diseases and Genome Sequencing

Mar 04, 2020 | Episode 61 | 24 mins

According to the California Healthcare Institute, up to 10% of the populati...

Genomics of Diet and Precision Nutrition

Feb 19, 2020 | Episode 60 | 24 mins

According to the CDC, up to 40% of adults in the United States are obese. D...

Drug Discovery through Gene Regulation

Feb 06, 2020 | Episode 59 | 24 mins

Targeted drug discovery has traditionally focused on inhibiting or modulati...

2019 and the Year in Genomics

Jan 22, 2020 | Episode 58 | 26 mins

In 2019, NGS continued to enable scientists to make great strides in unders...

Comprehensive Genomic Tumor Profiling

Dec 11, 2019 | Episode 57 | 20 mins

NGS-based genomics assays can help characterize the genetic profile of a tu...

Genomic Tumor Profiling and Precision Oncology

Nov 20, 2019 | Episode 56 | 23 mins

Understanding the mutational profile of a tumor can help to guide therapeut...

Genomics and Feeding a Hungry World

Nov 06, 2019 | Episode 55 | 23 mins

Agriculture has sustained and enhanced human life for thousands of years, b...

If Tumors Could Talk

Oct 23, 2019 | Episode 54 | 22 mins

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death around the world, and 38% peop...

NGS and New Frontiers in Infectious Disease

Oct 09, 2019 | Episode 53 | 22 mins

Sepsis is a serious medical condition typically caused by a bloodstream inf...

DNA Stories of Australia’s First Peoples

Sep 25, 2019 | Episode 52 | 23 mins

To ensure global scientific benefit from genomics, we need a better underst...

NGS Improves In Vitro Fertilization

Sep 11, 2019 | Episode 51 | 23 mins

The average risk of miscarriage in a healthy woman is 10-25%, and risk incr...

Genetic Screening and Inherited Disorders

Aug 29, 2019 | Episode 50 | 22 mins

Genetic carrier screening is used to identify recessive mutations linked to...

Sequencing the Cancer Epigenome

Aug 14, 2019 | Episode 49 | 25 mins

The epigenome is the chemicals and proteins that bind DNA and regulate gene...

Genomics and Tiger Conservation in Nepal

Jul 31, 2019 | Episode 48 | 26 mins

Tigers are apex predators in the wild and vital to maintaining biodiversity...

Escape from Limbo Land

Jul 17, 2019 | Episode 47 | 21 mins

Parents of children who suffer from a rare disease can sometimes find it di...

Unravelling the Mystery of Autoimmunity

Jul 08, 2019 | Episode 46 | 24 mins

The immune system is skilled at determining friend from foe. But, our immun...

Single Cell Omics and Cellular Immunology

Jun 19, 2019 | Episode 45 | 28 mins

NGS-based single cell genomics techniques can characterize the genetic mate...

Neglected Diseases and the Impact of NGS

Jun 05, 2019 | Episode 44 | 26 mins

Neglected tropical diseases primarily impact the world’s poor, and more tha...

Rare Disease and the Diagnostic Odyssey

May 23, 2019 | Episode 43 | 25 mins

Rare diseases affect millions of people around the world. Dr. Matt Might is...

Finding Bad Bugs with NGS

May 08, 2019 | Episode 42 | 31 mins

At the recent European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Dis...

Genetics of Breast Cancer

Apr 25, 2019 | Episode 41 | 23 mins

An average risk woman in the US has about a 1 in 8 chance of developing bre...

Next Generation Science Education

Apr 08, 2019 | Episode 40 | 27 mins

Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) industries need creative ...

Ancient DNA and Human History

Mar 20, 2019 | Episode 39 | 31 mins

Who am I, and where do I come from? We’re all interested in these fundament...

The Magic of Stem Cells and Embryogenesis

Mar 06, 2019 | Episode 38 | 21 mins

We all start life as a single egg cell, but after fertilization we grow int...

Immune Cells and Their Search for Energy

Feb 21, 2019 | Episode 37 | 30 mins

Metabolic changes in immune cells can alter immune system biology. So, unde...

Environmental and Societal Impact of Microbes

Feb 06, 2019 | Episode 36 | 21 mins

Our biggest environmental challenges ultimately relate to microbes, so stud...

Genomics 2018 Looking Back and Looking Ahead

Jan 23, 2019 | Episode 35 | 26 mins

2018 was an awesome year for genomics and genomics research. In this specia...

Estonia is a Model for Precision Healthcare

Jan 09, 2019 | Episode 34 | 25 mins

Dr. Tõnu Esko is Deputy Director of Research at the Estonian Biobank of the...

RNA Sequencing is a Cell Biology Tool

Dec 18, 2018 | Episode 33 | 27 mins

Dr. Joshua Weiner is Professor of Biology at the University of Iowa and Ass...

Genome Editing and CRISPR-Cas9

Dec 11, 2018 | Episode 32 | 28 mins

The CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing system is enabling scientists to make specif...

Noninvasive Prenatal Testing and NIPT

Nov 01, 2018 | Episode 31 | 38 mins

In noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), a maternal blood sample provides ma...

Genomics of Long-Term Memory

Oct 18, 2018 | Episode 30 | 24 mins

Long-term memories can last from minutes to a lifetime, and they are associ...

Genome Assembly and A Genomic Jigsaw Puzzle

Oct 03, 2018 | Episode 29 | 20 mins

Sequencing a human genome requires 300 billion bases of DNA sequence, all o...

Genetics of Deafness and Hearing Loss

Sep 19, 2018 | Episode 28 | 21 mins

Hereditary deafness is a relatively common disorder that affects about 1 in...

Genetics of Autism and Psychiatric Disorders

Sep 05, 2018 | Episode 27 | 22 mins

Autism is a complex psychiatric disorder that affects 1 in 59 children in t...

Genomics and Preimplantation Genetic Screening

Aug 23, 2018 | Episode 26 | 23 mins

In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a reproductive technology used to overcome ...

Large Scale Genetic Risk Profiling in Dementia

Aug 09, 2018 | Episode 25 | 25 mins

Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the death of brain tissues....

Eczema and the Human Skin Microbiome

Jul 12, 2018 | Episode 24 | 19 mins

Atopic dermatitis (eczema) is a skin inflammation disorder that affects nea...

Using Genetics to Predict Heart Attack Risk

Jun 27, 2018 | Episode 23 | 22 mins

Familial hypercholesterolemia is a genetic disorder leading to elevated cho...

Out of Africa and Genetics of the African Diaspora

Jun 15, 2018 | Episode 22 | 20 mins

African populations migrated out of Africa between the 15th and 19th centur...

Cancer Epigenomics and A Cacophony of Gene Expression

Jun 07, 2018 | Episode 21 | 19 mins

Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally. Cancer is driven by D...

Rare Genes and Rare Diseases

May 23, 2018 | Episode 20 | 18 mins

Up to 30 million Americans and 30 million Europeans are currently living wi...

NHGRI's 2020 Vision for Genomics

Apr 22, 2018 | Episode 19 | 31 mins

The National Human Genome Research Institute, or NHGRI, has launched a new ...

Genetics of Children's Complex Diseases From GWAS to NGS

Apr 11, 2018 | Episode 18 | 20 mins

Complex diseases are associated with genetic, environmental, and lifestyle ...

Genomics of Endosymbiosis and Cells Within Cells

Mar 29, 2018 | Episode 17 | 18 mins

Eukaryotic cells and their membrane bound organelles evolved from the uptak...

Brain on Fire and Genomics of Neuroinflammation

Mar 14, 2018 | Episode 16 | 19 mins

Encephalitis is a brain inflammation that affects 4 million people worldwid...

Human Gut Microbiome and Beneficial Bacteria

Feb 22, 2018 | Episode 15 | 18 mins

The human gut microbiome includes trillions of microbes that are important ...

Single Cell Genomics and Cell Ontology

Feb 08, 2018 | Episode 14 | 19 mins

Cell ontology is the vocabulary for defining cell types, and it's important...

The Human Genome and What We Are Missing

Jan 25, 2018 | Episode 13 | 17 mins

The human genome was completely sequenced in 2003 - or, was it? Robert Fult...

Human Microbiome and Our Second Human Genome

Nov 27, 2017 | Episode 12 | 15 mins

We live in harmony with trillions of microbes in and on our bodies - the hu...

Targeted NGS Empowers Genetic Testing

Nov 03, 2017 | Episode 11 | 16 mins

According to the US National Library of Medicine's Genetic Testing Registry...

Childhood Cancer Risk and Genetics

Oct 20, 2017 | Episode 10 | 17 mins

According to the US National Cancer Institute, 15,000 children and adolesce...

Genomics and Protecting Endangered Species

Oct 06, 2017 | Episode 9 | 13 mins

The critically endangered Saimaa ringed seal is found only in Lake Saimaa, ...

Making Sense of Cancer Genomes

Sep 22, 2017 | Episode 8 | 16 mins

To enable precision medicine in cancer, health care providers need a solid ...

RNA Sequencing in Diagnostics

Sep 08, 2017 | Episode 7 | 16 mins

Personalized medicine involves using a patient's genomic information to bet...

Genomics and Immune Diseases

Aug 25, 2017 | Episode 6 | 16 mins

In the United States, autoimmune diseases affect 24 million people, resulti...

Food Spoilage and Genomics

Aug 10, 2017 | Episode 5 | 14 mins

Food spoilage in global supply chains costs over 35 billion US dollars annu...

Finnish Genetics Aid Disease Research

Jul 07, 2017 | Episode 4 | 13 mins

The country of Finland is the largest population isolate in Europe, with a ...

The EMBL Genomics Core Facility

Jun 06, 2017 | Episode 3 | 14 mins

Next generation sequencing, or NGS, has helped to fuel amazing scientific d...

Uncovering Enhancer Hijacking Events in Cancer

May 23, 2017 | Episode 2 | 16 mins

Genetic variation can impact our susceptibility to developing diseases, lik...

Single-Cell Genomics and Mars

Mar 30, 2017 | Episode 1 | 16 mins

Microbes have been around for billions of years, and they continue to shape...

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Genomics Podcast

The Illumina Genomics Podcast

Hear directly from the people whose work in genomics is shaping the way we think about science and our world. Listen as leading scientists discuss the impact of genomics with the Illumina Scientific Affairs team.

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