Selected Media Coverage, Interviews, & Highlights

• Plant Physiology. Jan 2020
• Radio Western. 5 Jul 2019
• Botany One. 29 Nov 2018.
• My work was translated and published in a Chinese science communications journal.
• Freethought blog. 8 Jan 2018.
• Nature. 27 Sep 2017.
• The Globe and Mail. 13 May 2017.
• Western Mind. 31 Oct 2016.
• RNA-Seq Blog. ChloroSeq. 30 Sep 2016.
• F1000 Prime Article Recommendation. 4 July 2016.
• Press coverage of Gonium genome paper:
  • EurekaAlert! 25 Apr 2016.
  • Washington Post. 26 Apr 2016.
  • NewHistorian. 27 Apr 2016.
• F1000 Prime Article Recommendation. 16 Mar 2016.
• RNA-Seq Blog. Sequencing Mitochondrial Transcriptomes with RNA-Seq. 16 Feb 2016.
• University Affairs Magazine. Survival manual for new faculty. 9 Sep 2015.
• Motherboard. Startup says AI can predict the effects of gene editing. 23 July 2015.
• John Hawks. What sequences deserve a peer-reviewed publication? 7 Jul 2015.
• GenomeWeb. Just another mitochondrial genome paper. 29 Jun 2015.
• East Asian-Australian Flyway Partnership. Dangerous levels of mercury uncovered. 15 Jun 2015.
• University of Western Ontario. A marathoner’s guide to genetics. 24 Jun 2015.
• Science. Modern symbionts inside cells mimic organelle evolution. 31 Oct 2014.
• Nature Reviews Genetics. Plastid genomes – lost in translation? 25 Mar 2014.
• California Academy of Sciences. Missing DNA. 5 Mar 2014.
• Sandwalk. Death of the genome paper. 3 Mar 2014.
• The Scientist. Plants without plastid genomes. 28 Feb 2014.
• Science. When is a plant no longer a plant? 27 Feb 2014.
• John Hawks. How next-gen sequencing changes the work of a small biology lab. 22 Jun 2014.
• Smithsonian.com. Why do we keep naming new species after characters in pop culture? 5 Nov 2013.
• Genome Biol Evol. Plastids, genomes, and the probability of gene transfer. 3 Feb 2011.

RECORDED LECTURES :

• National Autonomous University of Mexico: “When the lights go out: a genetic mystery story from non-photosynthetic algae,” 29 Jun 2015.
• National Academy of Sciences Sackler Colloquium: “Symbioses becoming permeant: the origins and evolutionary trajectories of organelles,” 16 Oct 2014. 
• Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics: “Cooperation and major evolutionary transitions,” 4 Feb 2014.