Author: Jessica Hekman

Jessica Hekman, DVM, PhD, is a postdoc at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she helps out with cool projects like MuttMix in addition to focusing on her own research, The Working Dog Project . Jessica has a mutt, Jenny, whose DNA is on the sequencer right now, and she can’t wait to see what Linda’s breed calling algorithm will have to say about this one. @dogzombieblog / facebook.com/dogzombieblog

A new citizen science project for dog lovers. MuttMix: Can You Guess That Mutt?

By Jessica Hekman, Apr 16, 2018

Our first question upon hearing that someone has a new baby is usually “Is it a boy or a girl?” But our first question upon hearing that someone has gotten a new puppy is more often “What breed is it?” Breed is at the heart of how we perceive dogs. It affects many of our … Read more “A new citizen science project for dog lovers. MuttMix: Can You Guess That Mutt?”

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