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November 2014 - Interviewed about bioinformatics research as part of a series with notable bioinformaticians.

October 2014 - Interviewed about genomic testing as new resources surface for Phoenix Children's Hospital.

October 2014 - Interviewed about Open Access publishing. 

October 2014 - Profiled on for "Cracking the (bio)code." - profile here. 

June 2014 - Interviewed by Martin Amrein for article about Y chromosome evolution in NZZ am Sonntag (article in German), available below: June2014_NZZamSonntag_Y-Chromosome.pdf. 

June 2014 -  Interviewed for "Sex is Complicated" by Jillian Keenan about mechanisms of sex determination for Slate article about trans individuals.

September 2014 - Breaking Bio #65 "Sex chromosomes & Math for Biologists with Dr. Melissa Wilson Sayres" - watch here.

April 2014 - "56 different points on the gender spectrum" panel discussion at The Conference on World Affairs - watch here.

March 2014 - Interviewed by Maria Armoudian on The Scholar's Circle, NPR, along with Jeremy Nathans, about the X and Y chromosomes. - listen here.

January 2014 - Interviewed about Y chromosomes by Jonathan Green of ABC (Australian Broadcasting Company) Radio National. - listen here. 

Januray 2014 - Interviewed about work studying variation on the human Y chromosome: Ian Sample at The Guardian, Robin Wikey at the Huffington Post, Robert Sanders at UC Berkeley (y en Español), Sven Stockrahm at Zeit Online (German). Also written about by: Razib Khan at The Unz Review, Vicktoria Woollaston at MailOnline, Sandro Iannoccone at Galileo (Italian), Jumat in Sains (Indonesian), Pieter Van Dooren in Standaard (Dutch). 

 September 2013 - Interviewed by Ed Yong from National Geographic, about inherited human sex reversal due to variations in the SRY gene.

 July 2013 - Interviewed by Tia Ghose at Live Science, and interviewed by Erin Wayman of Science News for comments about a newly Y TMRCA results.

March 2013 - Interviewed by Alan Boyle at NBC News for comments about a newly identified human Y chromosome lineage.

November 2012 - Interviewed by Tia Ghose at LiveScience about our research involving observations of, and explanations for extremely low human Y chromosome diversity. Her article was picked up by The Huffington Post, Yahoo!News, e!ScienceNews, Hitech@Glance,  and others.

April 2012 - Interviewed by Dinsa Sachan at Down To Earth for comments on the newly sequenced rhesus Y chromosome.

July 2009 - Interviewed, then picked up, by several outlets about our work on the evolution of the human sex chromosomes: ABC News Health, Science Daily, L'Espresso (Italian), Phillipine Times, The Hindu, DailyIndia.com, Science Codex, and others. We even made it onto Jezebel, which is actually one of the most solid reviews (and least speculative!).