Genomics Revolution

Miranda Mordue and Matthew Hecker are the final guest hosts from the 2020 Hiram College Genetics course. Their topic is the 2nd major coronavirus zoonotic disease that is still a problem in parts of the world - MERS.

Denise Hart and Madyson Morris take us back almost two decades to the first big coronavirus scare - SARS!

Keegan Rankin and Torey Coward keep their bug zappers ready to go as they discuss the mosquito-borne viral disease Zika.

Alexus Acton and Rachna Prasad dig through the history, biochemistry and genomics of one of humanity’s scariest disease - Ebola.

Alysa Giudici and Rachel Jerkins wear long sleeves and pants while they discuss the mosquito-transmitted zoonotic West Nile Fever which impacts birds, humans and horses.

Giselle Bahena and Diamond Johnson guest host an episode on one of humanity’s oldest zoonotic diseases - rabies.

Brad adds on to Emily & Tim’s excellent introduction to HIV and AIDS.

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

Emily Harris and Tim Murton guest host this episode focused on the viral pandemic that defined the late 20th century - HIV and AIDS.

Sheree Nobles and Josh Gregory from the 2020 Genetics course tie together genital warts, several types of human cancer, and a group of closely related viruses known to many as simply HPV.

Abbey Anderson and Sammie Mansfield from the 2020 Genetics course shine light on a virus and its disease that has long lurked in the shadows - Hepatitis C.

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

Ciara Love and Cara Katzendorn from the 2020 Hiram Genetics course illuminate a virus spread by blood and other bodily fluids and the disease that it causes - Hepatitis B.

Kiyana Caver and Brittany Weaver walk us through the devastating history of polio and a hopeful happy ending in the near future.

Mit Patel and Andrew Pemberton, from the 2020 Hiram College Genetics course, bring us an ancient human scourge that is here no more - the only pathogen wiped from the planet so far. Let us hope that smallpox stays a scourge of our past.

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

Bri Bays and Melika King discuss the influenza virus group that never goes pandemic, but still wreaks havoc with human health every year - Influenza Type B.

Blake Erman and Ciza Sadoke discuss the strange workings of one of our annual scourges - influenza virus type A. Why do we get a new flu shot every year and how do pandemic flu strains make rare surprise appearances? Listen in to find out.

Two very funny people, Allison Slutz and Cole Filer, from the 2020 Hiram College Genetics course get serious about a childhood illness and its causal virus that should be a thing of the past, but it still raises it ugly head - measles

Alainna Conroy and Zach Walker talk about the virus and its genome that infects us once but hurts us twice - once in childhood (there is a vaccine now) and again as a senior (there is a different vaccine for that).