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Polymath World # Episode 24 - Dr Zachary Ardern
EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS
Dr Zachary Ardern is an evolutionary geneticist at the world-famous Wellcome Trust Sanger Centre in Cambridge. His work investigates the
evolution and functions of young genes in pathogenic bacteria and viruses, working as a SEED fellow (Sanger Epidemiological and Evolutionary Dynamics) as part of the Thomson group. Tracing the genetic changes of organisms over time, and how genes evolved (and are evolving) is a relatively new field and helps inform work on human disease and problems such as antimicrobial resistance as well as telling us a great deal about the…
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