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Ep. 9. Interrogating Fungal Pathogens & Inspired Leadership – A Discussion With Dr. Christina Cuomo

Season 1, Ep. 9
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In this episode of Genetics in Your World, Sarah Renee Phillips interviews Dr. Christina Cuomo about her paper "Impact of pathogen genetics on clinical phenotypes in a population of Talaromyces marneffei from Vietnam," published in the August 2023 issue of GENETICS. Dr. Cuomo elaborates on the diversity and evolution of a deadly fungal pathogen from southeast Asia and how she and her colleagues used a combination of population genomics and genome-wide association studies to identify evolutionary pattern and process as well as genes influencing patient experiences and health outcomes.

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