DiscoverStemCells@Lunch DigestedEpisode 147: Professor Yukiko Yamashita- “Junk DNA may not be all Junk”
Episode 147: Professor Yukiko Yamashita- “Junk DNA may not be all Junk”

Episode 147: Professor Yukiko Yamashita- “Junk DNA may not be all Junk”

Update: 2021-11-24
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In today’s episode, Prof Yukiko Yamashita, a group leader at Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, is interviewed by PhD student Joshua Reeves. Yukiko talks about how her lab got interested in understanding the possible mechanism of non siter chromatid segregation in germline cells. She talks about how they started looking at the interesting mechanisms regulating the immortality of germlines cells in Drosophila. Yukiko also shares her opinion regarding Junk DNA and how it might not all be junk like noncoding RNAs. Lastly, she shares her advice to be learner for rest of life and get used to stepping outside comfort zone. And to become comfortable not being expert all the time.
To find out more about Yukiko’s research, check out the following link:
https://yamashitalab.wi.mit.edu/
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Episode 147: Professor Yukiko Yamashita- “Junk DNA may not be all Junk”

Episode 147: Professor Yukiko Yamashita- “Junk DNA may not be all Junk”

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