S13E6 - Carter Clinton - Soil Secrets Unlock Equitable Futures
From GES Center Lectures, NC State University by Patti Mulligan
March 3, 2026 · 1h 1m · Season 13 · Episode 6
About this episode
Carter Clinton discusses how burial soil genomics can inform equitable biomedical futures.
Soil Secrets Unlock Equitable Futures Carter Clinton, PhD, Assistant Professor at NC State University GES Colloquium 3/10/2026 | Learn how burial soil genomics paired with descendant community partnership and bioethical data governance, can reconstruct buried histories and inform more equitable, socially accountable biomedical futures. __ Recorded from NC State’s GES Colloquium, this podcast examines how biotechnologies take shape in the world: microbiome engineering in built environments, gene editing and gene drives, forest and agricultural genomics, data governance and equity, risk and regulation, sci-art, and public engagement in practice. __ This talk will describe how applications of biotechnology, specifically DNA sequencing and computational genomics, are reshaping what we can learn about past communities while raising important questions about ethics, governance, and public trust. My lab develops non destructive approaches that recover DNA from burial soils, enabling research that minimizes disturbance of human remains and expands the scientific toolkit for studying historical populations. I will share what this technology can and cannot tell us about ancestry, health…
People in this episode
Guest: Carter Clinton
Topics covered
- soil genomics
- biotechnology
- bioethics
- equity
- public engagement
Keywords
- DNA sequencing
- computational genomics
- Hillsborough Legacy Project
- archaeological evidence
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Places: New York, North Carolina
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