Lions, Tigers, and Dr. Bill Murphy, Oh My!

Welcome to Blue Genes and Boots everyone!In this episode, Ashley and Emmarie talk to Dr. William Murphy. Dr. Murphy is a professor in the vet school at Texas A&M University, and his work focuses on comparative genomics, phylogeny and molecular evolution, with a specific focus in feline genetics. Dr. Murphy’s work has been very influential, from laying the groundwork for comparative genomics as a field to building tools and genomes that are useful to the scientific community on the whole.If you want to know more about the Genetics program at Texas A&M or the research discussed in this episode, please visit the following websites:Dr. Murphy’s Lab: http://www.eutherialab.org/Genetics IDP: https://genetics.tamu.edu Genetics Graduate Student Association: https://g2sa.tamu.edu