The music in our genomes | Jennifer Gardy with Peter Gregson | TEDxVancouver

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Jennifer Gardy reveals to us the surprising power and elegance of our Human DNA. And to help us understand this complex structure Celloist Peter Gregson plays what is effectively the DNA music score and reveals its beauty.
Dr. Jennifer Gardy has the best jobs in the world. Most of the time she’s a Senior Scientist in Molecular Epidemiology at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, where her research uses of DNA sequencing to solve public health problems, like figuring out how outbreaks of infectious disease begin and spread.

When not tracking disease, Jennifer works in science documentary television, subjecting herself to all sorts of indignities in the name of science communication. She’s floated in zero-gravity, been dunked in ice-cold water, and spun around in a human centrifuge as part of work for CBC Television’s long-running documentary series The Nature of Things, and appears regularly as a guest co-host of Discovery Channel Canada’s nightly science newsmagazine Daily Planet.
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