{"id":722,"date":"2013-07-14T06:45:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T06:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=722"},"modified":"2013-07-14T06:45:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T06:45:52","slug":"168-matt-witkowski-leukaemia-and-the-ikaros-gene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=722","title":{"rendered":"168 &#8211; Matt Witkowski &#8211; Leukaemia and the Ikaros Gene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s episode, I talk to Matthew Witkowski, a PhD student at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, on his research into the relationship between the Ikaros Gene and Leukemia.  <\/p>\n<p>We discuss:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Matt&#8217;s background<br \/>\n&#8211; A definition of leukaemia<br \/>\n&#8211; Matt&#8217;s work in his PhD<br \/>\n&#8211; What is the Ikaros gene?<br \/>\n&#8211; What is the relationship between Ikaros and leukaemia?<br \/>\n&#8211; What are the possible outcomes from this research?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/audio.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/~brainsmatter\/BM168-MattWitkowski.mp3\">Download MP3 of Ep 168<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=brainsmatterinbox%40gmail%2ecom&amp;no_shipping=2&amp;no_note=1&amp;tax=0&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&amp;charset=UTF%2d8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/x-click-but04.gif\" alt=\"Donate via Paypal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s episode, I talk to Matthew Witkowski, a PhD student at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, on his research into the relationship between the Ikaros Gene and Leukemia. We discuss: &#8211; Matt&#8217;s background &#8211; A definition of leukaemia &#8211; Matt&#8217;s work in his PhD &#8211; What is the Ikaros gene? &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,121,16,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-health","category-interview","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}