#8 - Professor Greg Gibson - The Kerplunk Model, Covid Testing and Scientific Publication

A professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Greg has theorised interesting genetic ideas such as the 'Kerplunk Model'  and more recently has been influential in coordinating effective Covid testing strategies. Today we talk about the heredity of traits, the importance of robustness in evolution and the current state of scientific publication. Greg also writes a monthly blog called The Genome's Take, which I highly recommend reading.If you are interested in helping The Biotech Podcast please take 30 seconds to take the following survey: https://harry852843.typeform.com/to/caV6cMzGFull Synopsis:00:00 - Intro01:53 - Heritability, and twin studies11:28 - The 'Kerplunk model'19:31 - Environmental effects on genetics22:88 - Model organisms and working with Walter Gehring29:25 - Canalisation and robustness38:38 - Career choices and the future of genetics43:17 - Covid testing regimes51:34 - The problems with scientific publication and publishing preprints 1:02:06 - The Genome's take blog and book recommendations1:05:11 - Extro