Genomics Revolution Guest Hosts: Matthew Hecker & Miranda Mordue Episode 54: MERS Coronavirus- Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-related coronavirus Hello, and welcome to Genomics Revolution. This is Matthew Hecker, and this is Miranda Mordue, bringing you in from the Hiram College Genetics course of 2020. As we stand in April 2020, the world is cur…

Genomics Revolution Guest Hosts: Denise Hart & Madyson Morris Episode 53: SARS Coronavirus Welcome to Genomics Revolution. This is Denise Hart and Madyson Morris from the 2020 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode on the SARS coronavirus. The acronym SARS stands for Severe Acute Respiratory System.1 To distinguish between the virus and…

Genomics Revolution Guest Hosts: Keegan Rankin and Torey Coward Episode 52: Zika Script: Keegan: Hello welcome to the podcast! I'm Keegan! Torey: And I’m Torey Coward! Keegan: And we are here today to talk to you about the Zika Virus. I’ll start us off with some general information. The Zika Virus belongs to a group of viruses known as flaviviruses…

Genomic Revolution Guest Hosts: Alexus Acton & Rachna Prasad Episode 51: Ebola Script: Rachna: Welcome to Genomics Revolution. This is Alexus Acton and Rachna Prasad from the 2020 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode on the Zaire Ebolavirus. This virus causes the disease ebola that originated from human animal contact, most likely fro…

Genomics Revolution Guest Hosts: Alysa Giudici & Rachel Jerkins Episode 50: West Nile Fever Script: Rachel: Hey everybody, and welcome to another episode of Genomics Revolution. This is Rachel Jerkins and Alysa Giudici (Guh-Dee-Cee), here to talk about the West Nile Virus. Rachel: The West Nile Virus comes from the flavivirus genus and the family f…

Genomics Revolution Guest Hosts: Giselle Bahena & Diamond Johnson Episode 49 – Rabies Lyssavirus Script: Welcome to Genomics Revolution. This is Giselle Bahena and Diamond Johnson from the 2020 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode covering the Rabies lyssavirus. As the scientific name of this virus implies, the disease that results fr…

Some More Information on How HIV Causes AIDS & on New Drugs: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BADDj82oces (Battle between HIV & Immune System video from Nature Reviews) https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/30/727731380/old-fight-new-front-aids-activists-want-lower-drug-prices-now (National Public Radio (NPR) segment “AIDS Activists Take A…

Brad sets the table for the last set of 2020 Hiram College Genetics course guest podcasts.By Brad Goodner

Genomics Revolution Guest Hosts: Emily Harris & Tim Murton Episode 48: HIV & AIDS Script: Welcome to Genomics Revolution! This is Emily Harris and this is Tim Murton. We are from the 2020 Hiram College Genetics course, and we are hosting this episode on the genome of Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or HIV. HIV targets a host’s immune system and cause…

Genomics Revolution Guest Hosts: Sheree Nobles & Joshua Gregory Episode 47: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Script: Josh- Hello everyone, and welcome to this episode of Genomics Revolution! We’re your guests hosts today, Sheree Nobles and Joshua Gregory. Today we’ll be talking about Human Papillomavirus, or HPV as it’s commonly known. This is a sexually…

Genomics Revolution Guest Hosts: Abbey Anderson & Samantha Mansfield Episode 46: Hepacivirus (Hepatitis C) Script: Hello! This is Sammie and Abbey coming at you live from a safe social distance! Today we are here to talk to you about Hepacivirus which is commonly known as Hepatitis C virus. We are going to spend some time talking about when and how…

Brad jumps in with a trailer for 4 episodes dealing with viruses that are transmitted by sex and transfer of bodily fluids.By Brad Goodner

Genomics Revolution Guest Hosts: Ciara Love & Cara Katzendorn Episode 45: Hepatitis B Virus Script: Hi, my name is Ciara and today we’re going to talk about a virus called Hepatitis B. This virus is a type of species in the orthohepadnavirus genus as well as a member of the hepadnaviridae family. This virus causes a world-wide known disease called …

Genomics Revolution Kiyana Caver & Brittany Weaver Genetics Podcast Transcript Episode 44: Poliovirus Script: Hello, I am Kiyana & I am Brittany and we will discuss the virus poliovirus which causes polio. Polio can also be known as poliomyelitis. It stems from the Greek meaning of an inflammation of the gray matter. In the early 20thcentury there …

Genomics Revolution Mit Patel and Andrew Pemberton Episode 43: Variola Virus (Cause of smallpox) Script: Welcome to the Genomic Revolution Podcast! This is Mit Patel and Andrew Pemberton from the 2020 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode on an orthopoxvirus known as the Variola virus. This virus causes the disease that many of our par…

Brad jumps in with a short trailer introducing some viruses that we have conquered or nearly conquered.By Brad Goodner

Genomics Revolution Brianna Bays and Melika King Episode 42 Influenza Type B Virus Script: Welcome to Genomics Revolution. This is Brianna Bays and Melika King from the 2020 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode over Influenza virus type B commonly known as the flu virus. The common symptoms are fever, muscle aches, headache, lack of e…

Genomics Revolution Benjamin Blake Erman and Ciza Sadoke Episode 41: Influenza Virus Type A Script: Hello and welcome to Genomics Revolution. Today’s episode is hosted by me, Blake Erman and my partner, Ciza Sadoke, which we’ll hear from later on in the podcast. We are from Brad Goodner’s 2020 Hiram College Genetics course and today we will be focu…

Genomics Revolution Podcast Allison Slutz & Cole Filer Episode 40: Measles & Morbillivirus Hi all. Welcome back to another episode of Genomics Revolution. Today you are hosted by Cole Filer and myself, Allison Slutz. We are part of the 2020 Hiram College genetics course and will be talking about the Measles morbillivirus, the virus that causes the …

Zach Walker & Alainna Conroy Virus: Varicella zoster virus Disease: Chickenpox/ Shingles Welcome to today’s episode of Genomics Revolution. I am Zach Walker and am here with Alainna Conroy and we will be discussing the varicella zoster virus. We will be referring to this as the VZV. BACKGROUND/ DISCOVERY: In 1888, Von Bokay first observed that the …

Genomics Revolution Podcast Episode 38: The Viral Age Begins Host: Brad Goodner, Professor of Biology & Biomedical Humanities at Hiram College Transcript: Welcome back. Now that we have a basic definition of a virus – a RNA or DNA genome surrounded by a protein shell called a capsid, let us put that definition into some historical context. When did…

Genomics Revolution Podcast Episode 37: A New Season, A New Normal Host: Brad Goodner, Professor of Biology & Biomedical Humanities at Hiram College Transcript: Welcome to our 2nd season of Genomics Revolution. I am your host, Brad Goodner. Along with this new season of podcasts comes a new normal that all of us are dealing with – the COVID-19 pand…

Welcome to Genomic Revolution. This is Curtis Swearingen from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode on the genome Saccharomyces cerevisiae S288C. This strain is from the fungal division Ascomycota and the family Saccharomycetaceae. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is an eukaryotic microbe. More specifically, it is a globular-shaped, y…

Welcome back to Genomics Revolution. Brad Goodner jumping back in to our Survey of Genomes guest-hosted by students from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course. You have probably been wondering “hey, when are they going to talk about the human genome?” We will get to it in time, but I am big believer that we humans need to see the biological world …

Hey guys welcome to this guest podcast of Genomics Revolution hosted by yours truly Hunter Jenkins of the 2019 spring Genetics class of Hiram College. In this episode, we will be zeroing in on the specific strain Fusobacterium nucleatum ATCC 25586 which I will now refer to as F. Nucleatum. This strain is a subspecies of Fusobacterium nucleatum name…

Welcome to Genomics Revolution. This is Hannah Mann from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode on Buchnera aphidicola sub species Acyrthosiphon Pisum, or Buchnera sp. APS. Named after Paul Buchner, a pioneer in the field of symbiotic microbiology of sap sucking insects. Buchnera sp. APS is a type of microbe found in the gut of…

Hello all, this is Tae’lor Jones from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course, and today on this episode I will reveal some interesting information on the genome Thermotoga maritima MSB8, which I will refer to as T. maritima from here on out. So, sit back and fasten your seat belts because you’re going to learn all the incredible wonders of this ama…

Welcome to Genomics Revolution! My name is Nicole Ryman and I will be hosting this episode to discuss the genome of a bacterium with a Guinness World Record! Deinococcus radiodurans claimed the record for “Most radiation-resistant lifeform” by being capable of withstanding 1.5 million rads of gamma radiation, which is about 3,000 times the lethal a…

Welcome to Genomics Revolution. This is Kerington Vickers from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode on the genome of Chlorobium tepidum TLS. I will call this C. tepidum from here on out. This strain of thermophilic green sulfur bacteria was isolated from acidic high sulfide hot springs on North Island, New Zealand (3). This o…

Welcome back to Genomics Revolution. This is Brad Goodner. I freely admit that I am a sports nut. I love watching humans compete against themselves and each other under stressful conditions. I also grew up intrigued by extreme athleticism in non-human animals – the world’s fastest mammal or longest-distance migrant. I don’t think I am alone in bein…

Brad Goodner here. It is great to be back with you after some more student-hosted episodes of Genomics Revolution. Did the title of today’s episode bring a chuckle or a smile to your face? It is one of many memorable lines from one of my favorite movies – The Princess Bride. Vizzini, the big-brained Sicilian kidnapper says “Inconceivable” every tim…

Hey, Brad Goodner here. It has been several episodes since I last got the chance to talk with you. I hope you are enjoying the Survey of Genomes episodes guest hosted by students from my 2019 Hiram College Genetics course. There are more of those episodes to come, but I wanted to jump in and provide some context. So far, 4 out of the 7 student-host…

Welcome to Genomics Revolution. My name is Kritika Bhau and I am a student at Hiram College and currently taking the course called Genetics. I will be hosting the episode on the organism, Methanococcus jannaschii. It is also known as methanocaladococcus jannaschii. I will be calling the organism M. jannaschii throughout the podcast. M. jannaschii i…

Hello my name is Nikkia Schady and today I will be talking to you about the organism Thermoplasma Acidophilum. Thermoplasma Acidophilum is a thermoacidophilic archaeon. It is classified as being in the archaea domain due to its membrane lipid composition, evolutionary ribosomal RNA and conserved proteins. (2) Thermoplasma Acidophilum is also in the…

Welcome to Genomics Revolution. This is Jake Lininger from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course. Today we will look at Rickettsia prowazekii or R. prowazekii for short. During WWI, epidemic typhus infected around 30 million humans (1). R. prowazekii had been discovered previously as a causal agent for typhus, or typhus fever, but how it infects h…

Hi my name is Brayla Stokes and today will be talking about Aeropyrum pernix K1 and this genome is a species of Archaea. It was the first crenarcheote which is just a category of Archaea and first aerobic member of Archaea with a complete genome sequence. This organism helped us link the relationship between the three domains of life. In 1999 Aerop…

Hello all, today I will be talking about Halobacterium NRC-1, or ATCC 700922. Halobacterium is a genus of Halobacteriaceae. The Halobacterium species is actually not a bacteria, however, it belongs to the archea domain. Halobacterium was originally studied in the 1960s, brine shrimp, who are filter feeders, would consume the Halobacterium, in turn,…

Welcome to Genomics Revolution. My name is Alexis Polcawich from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode on the genome called Yersinia Pestis. This is a gram negative, nonmotile, rod-shaped coccobacillus bacteria that does not form spores and is a facultative anaerobe. This bacterium was discovered in 1894 by Alexandre Yersin in…

Welcome to Genomics Revolution. I’m Taylor Yamamoto from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode on the genome of the bacteria Escherichia Coli O157:H7. I will be calling it E. Coli from now on. This strain of E. Coli is the most harmful strain to humans because it produces a toxin, called Shiga toxin, that causes bloody diarrhe…

Welcome to Genetics Revolution. This is Ashley Redman from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode of clostridium perfringens. Clostridium perfingens, CP for short, is a gram positive anaerobic, spore-forming, bacterium known to be the most widely distributed pathogen in nature. It is commonly found in soil, sewage, raw meat, an…

My name is Daijah Sek, and on today’s episode I will be discussing Treponema pallidum which many of you may already be familiar with. In 1905, scientists Schaudinn and Hoffman identified this spiral-shaped bacterium as a causative agent of syphilis. However, we now suspect with more recent research done that this may have originated and been presen…

Welcome to Genomics Revolution. This is guest host Stephanie Cipa from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course. I’m going to be talking about two strains of bacteria today; Bifidobacterium longum NCC2705 and Bifidobacterium longum ssp. longum 35624, previously known as Bifidobacterium infantis 35624. From here out I will be referring to them as B. l…

Welcome to Genomics Revolution. This is Ka Shing Allan So from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode on the genome of Campylobacter jejuni, or C. jejuni. C. jejuni falls under the Campylobacteraceae family, and the Campylobacter genus. Campylobacter jejuni was discovered by Theodor Escherich. In 1886, Escherich was studying st…

Welcome to Genomics Revolution. This is Anna Pallante and this episode will focus on the genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a pathogenic bacteria from the family Mycobacteriaceae that was discovered in 1882 by Robert Koch (1). Koch was able to isolate the bacteria from tissue samples from animals that were suf…

Welcome to Genomics Revolution. This is Sam Hitchcock from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course and I will be hosting this episode on the genome of Ralstonia solanacearum GMI1000. R. solanacearum is a beta-proteobacterium, which is a class of proteobacteria that occupy diverse environments as pathogens living within hosts. R. solanacearum is no d…

Welcome back to Genomics Revolution, this is Kiara Jeffrey from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course hosting this episode on the genome of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PAO1, which I will call P. aeruginosa from now on. This rod-shaped, gram-negative bacterium belongs to the Bacteria class gamma-Proteobacteria and the family Pseudomonadaceae (2).…

Welcome to Genomics Revolution. I am Brett Bentkowski, from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics Course and it is my pleasure to host this episode on Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the so called fission yeast. Fission yeast was first reported in 1893, by Paul Lindner, who isolated if from East African millet beer. It gets its species name pombe from the Swa…

Hello, and welcome back to genomics revolution. I am Kaitlyn Morse a guest scientist here today to talk about the organism Drosophila melanogaster, or what we know as the fruit fly. We may think of this insect as a pest but, it has been one of the most useful organisms in a biology/ genetics lab to date. You may be asking how is that possible? A sm…

Welcome to Genomics Revolution. This is Danielle Vincent from the 2019 Hiram College Genetics course, and I will be your host for this episode on the genome of Vibrio cholerae El Tor N16961. Now, just to make things a bit easier, I’ll go ahead and refer to this organism as V. cholerae for the remainder of this episode. V. cholerae is a gram-negativ…

Hello everyone, My name is Tim Stucky and today I’ll be taking you through the genetics of Caulobacter crescentus. Caulobacter was first proposed in 1935 by Henrici and Johnson, two researchers who found the bacteria in microscope slides with samples from a freshwater lake. It is considered a stalked organism, meaning it has a long tubelike extensi…