{"id":798,"date":"2014-12-15T18:07:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T18:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/?p=798"},"modified":"2014-12-15T18:07:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T18:07:29","slug":"prof-darren-griffin-discusses-avian-genome-evolution-on-radio-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/12\/15\/prof-darren-griffin-discusses-avian-genome-evolution-on-radio-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Darren Griffin discusses avian genome evolution on Radio 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/files\/2014\/12\/Darren-bird.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-800\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/files\/2014\/12\/Darren-bird-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Darren bird\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/files\/2014\/12\/Darren-bird-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/files\/2014\/12\/Darren-bird-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/files\/2014\/12\/Darren-bird.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/bio\/profiles\/staff\/griffin.html\">\u00a0Prof. Darren Griffin<\/a> took to the airwaves on the Today programme this week to discuss his team&#8217;s part in\u00a0the multi-national &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biomedcentral.com\/series\/avian\">Avian Phylogenomics Consortium<\/a>&#8220;, whose work was published in a special\u00a0collection of articles published\u00a0in the journal BMC Genomics.<\/p>\n<p>The articles describe the identification and analysis of\u00a045 avian genomes, and has revealed fascinating evolutionary insights. In particular, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biomedcentral.com\/1471-2164\/15\/1060\/abstract\">the work<\/a> of Prof. Griffin and colleagues has revealed that the genome organisation of chicken and related species such as turkey has the closest genomic resemblance to avian dinosaur precursors; something to think about over the traditional Christmas lunch!<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Griffin&#8217;s interview can currently\u00a0be heard on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b04tlx6w\">BBC iPlayer<\/a>; the interview starts at 53:40 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/12\/15\/prof-darren-griffin-discusses-avian-genome-evolution-on-radio-4\/&amp;t=Prof. Darren Griffin discusses avian genome evolution on Radio 4' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Prof. Darren Griffin discusses avian genome evolution on Radio 4%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/12\/15\/prof-darren-griffin-discusses-avian-genome-evolution-on-radio-4\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/12\/15\/prof-darren-griffin-discusses-avian-genome-evolution-on-radio-4\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/12\/15\/prof-darren-griffin-discusses-avian-genome-evolution-on-radio-4\/&amp;title=Prof. Darren Griffin discusses avian genome evolution on Radio 4' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/12\/15\/prof-darren-griffin-discusses-avian-genome-evolution-on-radio-4\/&amp;title=Prof. Darren Griffin discusses avian genome evolution on Radio 4' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Prof. Darren Griffin took to the airwaves on the Today programme this week to discuss his team&#8217;s part in\u00a0the multi-national &#8220;Avian Phylogenomics Consortium&#8220;, whose work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/12\/15\/prof-darren-griffin-discusses-avian-genome-evolution-on-radio-4\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2767,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}