This week we’re joined by Thea Gayatri Fennell, a genomicist whose team was recently called into the town of Dale to investigate the outbreak of a water-borne illness. We learn how one goes about tracing the cause of an outbreak, applying biological solutions to magical problems, and how to fight a giant spider-crab.

To find Thea online:

https://twitter.com/theagayatri

https://supfam.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/bioinformatics/people/thea_fennell.html

To find Sam and Dani online:

https://twitter.com/Aqua_Dan1

https://twitter.com/BigDrFishBoi

Biologists of Middle Earth is as always brought to you by Sam Perrin and Dani Crowley. If you enjoyed this episode, let us know, and feel free to send in questions to any of our guests to answer.

Thanks for listening!