Joseph Herdy talks zombie cells, selfish genes, and Alzheimer's disease

25/11/2025 41 min Temporada 5 Episodio 7
Joseph Herdy talks zombie cells, selfish genes, and Alzheimer's disease

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While you might not appreciate a shipment of live, wriggling lamprey, Joseph Herdy, PhD, will tell you the parasitic fish can actually teach us quite a bit about our own genomes. Studying lamprey set Herdy off on a genomic journey, as he continued over the years to study the organization, flexibility, and instability of genomes. Today, he's a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Rusty Gage, PhD, where he researches how genomic plasticity influences Alzheimer's disease progression.