Ep16 - Mendel, the Father of Genetics

Posted on Tuesday, Sep 1, 2020
In our next “Profiles of Scientific Genius” series, we bring to you the life story of the Father of Modern Genetics, Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884). Dr. Sabah Kadri and Arshi Arora talk about his journey from a monk to a scientist, his iconic work on pea plants, Mendel’s Laws of inheritance, and lastly a brief note about the Mendel-Fisher controversy.

Show Notes

References

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics
  2. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/350/6257/159
  3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4707027/

  4. https://www.genome.gov/25520244/online-education-kit-1909-the-word-gene-coined#:~:text=Word%20Gene%20Coined-,1909%3A%20The%20Word%20Gene%20Coined,its%20genetic%20traits%20(genotype).

  5. Why was Mendel’s Work Ignored? Elizabeth B. Gasking Journal of the History of Ideas Vol. 20, No. 1 (Jan., 1959), pp. 60-84 (25 pages)

Hosts

Arshi Arora

Arshi Arora

Arshi Arora is a Research Biostatistician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She holds a double Masters of Science degree in Computational Biology and Biostatistics from Carnegie Mellon and Columbia University respectively. Her interests lie in creating elegant solutions to biological and clinical questions via simple yet compelling statistical models. She is a minimalist and follows an intense recycling waste regimen.

Sabah Kadri, PhD

Sabah Kadri, PhD

Dr. Sabah Kadri has a background in Computer Engineering with a PhD in Computational Biology from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Kadri leads a team of bioinformaticians and scientists to design, develop and implement cloud-based computational infrastructure and containerized bioinformatics software in clinical diagnostic services for germline and somatic next generation sequencing (NGS) testing. She has experience building clinical diagnostics pipelines and systems for adult and pediatric diseases and continues to work on informatics solutions and research questions for translational ‘omics’ and biomedical research to promote personalized medicine.

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