Jenny Graves is an evolutionary geneticist whose research exploits the genetic diversity of Australia's unique mammals as a source of genetic variation to study the organisation, function and evolution of mammalian genomes. This has lead to new theories of the origin and evolution of human sex chromosomes and sex determining genes.
Jenny is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, and served on the Executive for eight years, first as Foreign Secretary, then as Secretary for Education and Public Affairs. She is Distinguished Professor at La Trobe University, Professor Emeritus at ANU and Thinker-in-Residence at the University of Canberra.
New affordable technology means scientists can sequence genomes for all species, and the variation between species could uncover remarkable innovations.
All over the world, from China to Australia, a mixture of genes, hormones and the immune system makes men more susceptible to coronavirus.
A new study looks at the impact of our parents genes on our development - even the ones we don't inherit.
A recent paper claims that beyond just genes on X and Y, a full third of our genome is behaving very differently in men and women.
