Podcasts by The Beagle Has Landed Podcast
Hosted by renowned educator and genetic counselor, Laura Hercher, The Beagle Has Landed is the first independent podcast for the rapidly growing and dynamic community of genetic counselors. The show features interviews with leaders in the field of clinical genetics, exploring our complicated past and rapidly changing present. We look at the new roles genetic counselors are playing in industry as well as clinical settings, bringing in the voices of other stakeholders, including basic scientists and families affected by genetic disease.
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Historian Beverly Gage on Her Rare Disease Diagnosis from 2023-04-04T10:46:04
Beverly Gage, Yale professor of American History and author, is more likely to be found on podcasts discussing her new (and wildly acclaimed) biography, “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of ...
ListenDeven McGraw on Health Data Sharing and Privacy from 2023-01-30T16:38:09
Deven McGraw, lead for Data Stewardship and Data Sharing at Invitae, joins Laura to discuss how government and industry can best secure your right to access your own health data while keeping it se...
ListenAdam Rutherford on His Latest Book about Eugenics from 2023-01-09T22:22:13
Today’s podcast features Adam Rutherford, a geneticist trained at University College London who has spent much of his career as a science communicator: as an editor at Nature, as a radio and televi...
ListenBringing Genomic Medicine to the Whole World: Sharon Terry of the Genetic Alliance from 2022-12-14T22:12:20
In a field full of amazing people, no one --- no one -- is more remarkable than Sharon Terry. And this is despite (or perhaps because of) the fact that she is not, technically, in the field at all...
ListenNoura Abul Husn on Translational Genomics from 2022-11-14T14:18:12
Noura Abul-Husn got her MD and PhD from Mt Sinai in NYC, where she later served as the first clinical director of the Institute for Genomic Health and Chief of Genomic Medicine. Today, she is Vice...
ListenWhy Has PGx Testing Been So Hard? with Kristine Ashcraft from 2022-10-03T21:39:36
Pharmacogenetics testing: where are we today? Kristine Ashcraft, CEO, and founder of YouScript, a translational PGX start-up that Invitae recently acquired, joins us on the Beagle to discuss why ...
ListenMichelle Mello on Abortion, Privacy, and Genetic Counseling after Dobbs from 2022-09-21T06:58:49
The dismantling of the right to abortion established under Roe v Wade has left many clinicians angry, uncertain, and in dire need of legal advice. If that describes you – speak to a lawyer! Don’t ...
ListenDaniel Navon on Genetics and Patient Identity from 2022-08-31T17:37:47
A conversation with Dan Navon, associate professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of Mobilizing Mutations: Human Genetics in the Age of Patient Advocacy. D...
ListenAllison Kurian on Cancer Testing from 2022-05-16T13:27:37
Allison Kurian is Director of the Stanford Women’s Clinical Cancer Genetics Program, with a practice that centers on women at high risk of breast and gynecologic cancers. Trained in internal medic...
ListenIllumina’s Phil Febbo on Early Cancer Detection and Launch of Galleri from 2022-05-02T21:28:06
What if, someday, your doctor could order a single test able to screen for over 50 types of cancer? What if, someday, you had an effective screening option to offer patients identified with cancer...
ListenIs Luna Genetics a Game Changer? Ron Wapner on Prenatal Genetics from 2022-04-20T23:37:19
Ten years ago, prenatal testing was revolutionized by the introduction of non-invasive testing, which improved the positive predictive value of testing while reanimating concerns that have dogged r...
ListenJehannine Austin on Psychiatric Genetics and Counseling from 2022-03-07T20:05:15
Today on The Beagle, one of the rock stars of the genetic counseling field, Jehannine Austin, Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia. Jehannine has pioneered the fiel...
ListenAnya Prince on Genetic Discrimination and Privacy from 2022-02-15T10:57:21
Increasingly, algorithms and computing power are combining to turn us into both the sources and the subjects of big data. Professor Anya Prince from the University of Iowa College of Law, an exper...
ListenDonna McDonald-McGinn on 22Q11 from 2022-01-31T21:18:04
22Q11 Deletion Syndrome – the most common version of a rare thing, affecting close to 1 in 1000 births – is no picnic for genetic counselors. Presentation is complex and unpredictable and can incl...
ListenSex, Gender, and NIPT with Hannah Llorin and Kim Zayhowski from 2021-12-13T21:41:16
Hannah Llorin is a reproductive genetic counselor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and Kim Zayhowski is a cancer genetic counselor at Boston Medical Center and a faculty member at the Bos...
ListenAmy McGuire on Newborn Sequencing from 2021-11-22T12:28:27
Today the Beagle welcomes Amy McGuire, Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine. Amy, a nationally-recognized ex...
ListenKathryn Paige Harden on Behavioral Genetics from 2021-11-07T21:26:45
Kathryn Paige Harden is a professor of psychology at the University of Texas, where she leads the Developmental Behavior Lab and co-directs the Texas twin project.
ListenColleen Caleshu on GC Burnout from 2021-10-21T21:01:01
Colleen Caleshu, Senior Director of Research at GeneMatters, received the Jane Engleberg Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2019 for a randomized controlled trial of meditation to improve genetic co...
ListenNew ACMG Guidelines for Expanded Carrier Screening with Barbara Harrison and Katie Stoll from 2021-10-11T10:34:17
Today, Laura speaks with Barbara Harrison, Assistant Professor at Howard University (and 2020 NSGC Natalie Weissberger Paul National Achievement Award winner) and Katie Stoll, executive director of...
ListenKiran Musunuru Has Good News about Gene Therapy for Common Diseases from 2021-08-17T11:23:57
A cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Kiran Musunuru is a clinician and a researcher whose important work has moved the ball forwar...
ListenLaura and Jordan Brown on New Challenges to Abortion Law and What they Mean for Prenatal Diagnostics from 2021-07-19T22:55:45
The legal landscape for abortion is changing rapidly, and in ways that will inevitably affect genetic counseling practice in many states. Joining Laura to discuss the new laws and the role that NSG...
ListenJodie Ingles on Cardio Genetics from 2021-05-13T10:16:41
Today we reach out across closed borders to Australia for a chat with Jodie Ingles, one of the first people anywhere in the world to focus on cardiogenetic counseling. Jodie talks to us about how ...
ListenEuan Ashley on The Genome Odyssey from 2021-04-26T16:07:57
Euan Ashley has had a front row seat at the genomic revolution, and in his new bookThe Gen...
ListenKyle Brothers and Mildred Cho: How to Talk about Race in Designing Genetic Research from 2021-04-12T14:09:35
If you are a clinician, researcher, or editor working in genetics, you are probably aware of the toxic history of our field with regard to race. And (Listen
Walter Isaacson,"The Code Breaker" from 2021-03-13T20:32:40
Walter Isaacson, who has written biographies that explore the birth of the atomic age (Einstein) and the digital age (Jobs), now turns his attention to the biotech revolution, as embodied by CRISPR...
ListenHank Greely: CRISPR People from 2021-02-25T00:47:51
I can hardly believe I’ve been doing this podcast for more than 2 years and never had Hank Greely on before. Hank Greely is the Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law at Stanford Univer...
ListenEimear Kenny and Noura Abul-Husn: Translational Genomics Incarnate from 2021-01-11T22:19:07
There’s no overstating how far we have come since 2000 in the fledgling science of genomics, but at times it has seemed that our ability to amass information has far outstripped our ability to make...
ListenDiana Bianchi on Prenatal Testing from 2020-11-10T12:56:04
Diana Bianchi began her career in genetics so long ago that she needed to make one thing clear: “I’m not that old. I just started young.” And it’s true! Diana fell in love with the study of chro...
ListenDifference or Disability? with Rosemarie Garland Thomson from 2020-10-27T21:58:25
Rosemarie Garland Thompson is a professor of English and Bioethics at Emory University. She has been called a “thought leader” in disability studies. She is co-editor of About Us: Essays from the...
ListenHeather Hampel on the State of Cancer Testing from 2020-10-13T01:49:34
Heather Hampel, one of the pioneer genetic counselors in the realm of cancer counseling, has been leading the charge on Lynch syndrome screening for over 20 years. Whatever your leadership metrics...
ListenAdam Rutherford on Science Communication from 2020-09-28T17:37:49
Today’s podcast features Adam Rutherford, a geneticist trained at University College London who has spent much of his career as a science communicator: as an editor at Nature, as a radio and televi...
ListenRacism and Genetic Counseling with Aishwarya Arjunan and Carrie Haverty from 2020-07-06T23:21:39
Aishwarya Arjunan of Myriad’s Women’s Health and Carrie Haverty of the biotech start-up Miroculus join Laura to discuss dialogues that have cropped up recently on Twitter and in other places agains...
ListenJohn Greally on Epigenomics from 2020-06-25T11:38:05
Laura talks today with John Greally, a pediatrician and epigenomicist with appointments in Medicine, Pediatrics and Genetics at Einstein Medical Center in the Bronx. John is the founding director ...
ListenDavid Goldstein from 2020-05-07T11:01:26
David Goldstein is a self-described “geneticist for hire.” It’s been five years since he arrived in New York as the inaugural director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine at Columbia Universit...
ListenAuthor Libby Copeland on the Impact of Ancestry Testing from 2020-03-30T13:18:32
Libby Copeland is a prize-winning science journalist who has written for the Washington Post, New York Magazine, the NY Times Magazine and, the Atlantic, among others.
ListenHeidi Rehm from 2020-03-24T11:33:23
Geneticist Heidi Rehm of Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute has helped develop many of the tools that are fundamental to our ability to harness genomic variation for medical care: ClinG...
ListenEthan Weiss and the Story of Ruthie Weiss from 2020-03-12T10:13:17
Prenatal testing was a normal part of life for UCSF cardiologist Ethan Weiss and his wife when they were expecting their second child, something you did without a second thought. But thirteen years...
ListenGillian Hooker on HR3235 from 2020-02-18T10:11:04
“It’s been a crazy time,” says Gillian Hooker, of the first 5 weeks of her year as President of the National Society of Genetic Counselors. NSGC is attempting to rally support around HR3235, a lon...
ListenAmbry Genetics on New RNA Testing from 2020-01-29T10:14:11
Laura starts out the decade chatting with genetic counselor Holly LaDuca and Rachid Karam, Director of Ambry Translational Genomics Lab, about Ambry’s paired DNA/RNA cancer susceptibility test, whi...
ListenAlicia Zhou from 2019-12-05T11:42:40
Color Genomics burst on the scene in 2015, offering breast cancer susceptibility testing at a fraction of the price of other laboratories.
ListenLouise Bier from 2019-11-13T09:56:08
As we get underway with All of Us, the huge tax-payer funded project to assemble a database or genomic and medical information on 1 million Americans, there are people working hard to make sure it ...
ListenRayna Rapp from 2019-11-01T12:57:01
Rayna Rapp is Professor of anthropology and an affiliate at the center for disability studies at NYU. Laura welcomes Rayna Rapp, feminist, medical anthropologist and all-around sage, who has worke...
ListenJordan Smoller from 2019-10-17T10:09:47
Families and individuals dealing with mental illness have lots of questions about genetic testing. Does it work? Can it help doctors choose the right course of treatment? Canit predict who is li...
ListenKif Augustine-Adams from 2019-06-19T22:26:51
Kif Augustine-Adams is the Ivan Meitus Chair and a professor the Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark School of Law whose work has focused on protecting immigrant women and children. A feminis...
ListenKevin Mitchell from 2019-06-04T11:11:04
Kevin Mitchell (AKA “Wiring the Brain”) joins us on The Beagle to discuss the use of so-called polygenic risk scores to select for “the smartest embryos,” as a recent Guardian article put it. Can w...
ListenKiran Musunuru, Verve Therapeutics from 2019-05-21T09:04:41
Kiran Musunuru, Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, is back on The Beagle to talk about Verve Therapeutics, a company that announced its arrival earli...
ListenEric Topol from 2019-05-07T10:13:55
As the Gary and Mary West Professor of Innovative Medicine and Founder/Director of the Scripps Translational Institute, Eric Topol is in the visionary business, trying to imagine what medicine will...
ListenElissa Levin from 2019-04-11T14:04:30
Elissa Levin was one of the first genetic counselors to work in the direct-to-consumer sector, starting at DNA Direct (remember that?); she’s been at Illumina-spinoff Helix for about 3 years. Heli...
ListenWendy Chung from 2019-02-27T18:00:06
Wendy Chung (MD, PhD) is the Kennedy Family Professor of Pediatrics in Medicine at Columbia University… and the Director of the Pediatric Neuromuscular Network Molecular Core, the New York Obesity ...
ListenEllen Matloff from 2019-02-20T17:13:07
Ellen Matloff has one of the most unique stories in genetic counseling today. She worked at Yale to found the cancer counseling program in the early days of that discipline and was an early and hi...
ListenPenny Wolfson and Ansel Lurio from 2019-02-05T19:21:03
Penny Wolfson’s book, Moonrise, grew out of her experiences after the diagnosis of her oldest son Ansel Lurio with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Today Ansel is 34 and his biography far exceeds the l...
ListenKiran Musunuru from 2018-12-07T09:37:45
“Genome editing had to happen sometime,” says our guest Kiran Musunuru, MD, PhD, MPH, internationally recognized Crispr expert and Laura's colleague on the American Society of Human Genetics’ task ...
ListenMaryAnn Campion from 2018-11-26T20:56:35
Everyone says we need more genetic counselors, but few people have put as much time and effort into creating them as MaryAnn Campion, current co-director of the Master’s Program in Human Genetics a...
ListenRachel Adams from 2018-11-06T10:14:09
Rachel Adam’s life took an unexpected turn 11 years ago, when her son was diagnosed with Down syndrome shortly after birth. Her memoir, Raising Henry, is a deeply thoughtful and eloquent look at h...
ListenSek Kathiresan from 2018-10-29T14:03:31
Polygenic risk scores have burst onto the scene in 2018, not because they are new (they are not) but because after years of discouraging and anemic results, it seemed that perhaps this sort of amor...
ListenBrianne Kirkpatrick from 2018-10-23T11:42:53
If you survey genetic counselors about direct-to-consumer genetic testing (and we did!) you will find that most of them think that DTC customers should receive genetic counseling. At the same time...
ListenErica Ramos from 2018-10-09T11:29:06
Ever since she was a small child, Erica Ramos dreamed of being president of NSGC … Okay no. Erica talks about her path to the presidency, her least favorite thing about the job, and why she has t...
ListenMatt Fender from 2018-09-25T10:18:20
In December 2017, Matt Fender ran his 23andMe raw data through Promethease, a third party DNA search engine that provides an inexpensive personalized list of annotated SNP’s. At the top of Matt’s ...
ListenCarl Zimmer from 2018-09-10T21:52:16
Carl Zimmer is a master at describing the sort of shiny objects that obsess the sci-curious: children that leave neurons behind in their mother’s brain, mice that pass memories down in their sperm,...
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