The Perpetual Notion Machine speaks with UW Professor Francisco Pelegri about his research and how it is advancing work within the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Great Lakes Biobank. Pelegri is a professor and genetics researcher who is department chair at the UW-Madison Departments of Genetics and Medical Genetics. His work includes finding ways to preserve the DNA of threatened animal species before they lose biodiversity within their populations, similar to the seed banks currently preserving biodiversity among plants. We discuss the science behind this work, the land ethic that informs it, and the global impact of the technology.

Photo: Francisco Pelegri with dwarf danio fish. Bryce Richter/University of Wisconsin-Madison. Courtesy of On Wisconsin Magazine. 

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