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MTS38 - Jonathan Eisen - An Embarrassment of Genomes

MTS38 - Jonathan Eisen - An Embarrassment of Genomes

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DATE : Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:04:12 -0500
Entered in Database : 2009-11-05 02:04:12
length : 44344309
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Jonathan Eisen is a professor at the University of California, Davis Genome Center. Over the course of his career, he has pioneered new ways of sequencing microbial genomes and analyzing them. I talked to Eisen about some of the weirdest creatures he's studied, such as bacteria that only live on the bellies of worms at the bottom of the ocean, and how we may be able to exploit their genomes for our own benefit. We also discussed the new movement for open access to scientific literature, a subject that's a particular passion of Eisen, who is academic editor in chief at the open-access journal PLOS Biology.

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