ANGIE BROOKS WILSON – Video

Posted: January 5, 2013 at 1:42 pm




ANGIE BROOKS WILSON
I #39;ve always been interested in heredity, why people have traits and why they run through families. I do research on human genetics and specifically genetics of susceptibility to cancer so, who develops cancer and who doesn #39;t develop cancer and why. I do that both with families that have multiple people with a form of cancer and with sporadic cases where we study hundreds of people who have a certain cancer and compare them to hundreds of people who don #39;t. I also study healthy aging which is a particularly popular project with grad students. I have five hundred super seniors. They are a minimum age of 85 and they need to have never been diagnosed with cancer, cardiovascular disease, alzheimer #39;s disease, diabetes or major pulmonary disease. I have a graduate student right now that is doing personality tests with the super seniors. She goes to their home and she interviews them for two hours and asks them a large set of questions and she says she really loves the interaction with them. To see a student come in and not really know very much about a certain area and then to see them delve into it and start asking questions that I wouldn #39;t have thought of and I always tell them very quickly that they are going to be more specialized in their project than I am.

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