Titans of Science: Jane Carlton

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Our Titan of Science this week is leading light in the field of malaria, Jane Carlton. The first to sequence the genome of malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax, she also helped sequence the deadlier Plasmodium falciparum. Jane tells Chris Smith the ins and outs of malaria, her journey to become Director of the Malaria Research Institute at Johns Hopkins, and how stealing her brother's genetics textbook when she was just 8 years old led her to where she is today... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	All engine running.
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0:04.1	Welcome.
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0:16.9	Hello, welcome to the naked scientist podcast.
0:19.6	This is the program that brings you the biggest breakthroughs
0:22.2	and also talks to the major movers and shakers in the worlds of science, technology and medicine.
0:27.7	I'm Chris Smith.
0:28.9	Today, we're putting one of the world's most pernicious parasites under the microscope, malaria.
0:34.2	And Titan of Science, Jane Carlton, is going to be our guide.
0:45.3	Jane Carlton was born on the 7th of January, 1967, in Scotland's capital, Edinburgh.
0:51.9	She attended St George's School for Girls and then completed a degree
0:55.8	and a PhD in genetics at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1995, before moving to the US to
1:03.5	take up a research position at the University of Florida, where she used her skills in molecular
1:08.2	biology to produce the world's first full genome sequences
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