In this episode, my guest is Dr. Katharina Hoff, a bioinformatician at the University of Greifswald. We talk about gene finding, biotechnology, academia, diversity, life on earth, reptiles, conspiracy theory, fake news, and social media for scientists.   She shares her incredible journey into science and the tools she developed to help scientists find genes. She is a member of the Earth Biogeneome Project Standard committee that aims to catalog all genes in all eukaryotic biodiversity.   Most of the conversation focuses on genes, proteins, DNA, RNA, RNA sequences, and life forms. We also talk about science as a career, academia, women in science, fake news, and conspiracy theories.   The field of gene annotation led by Dr. Hoff and others will revolutionize the way we understand biology.   Dr. Hoff is an experienced scientist with a demonstrated history of working in the research industry. Skilled in Sequence Analysis, Bioinformatics, Genome Annotation, Perl, Python, and C++. Strong teaching record in Bioinformatics, Statistics and Programming. Strong research professional with a Doctor rerum naturalium habilitatus in Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Molecular Biology, and Bachelor Science in Plant Biotechnology.  Leibniz Universität Hannover, The University of Göttingen, Universität Greifswald.   Link: https://math-inf.uni-greifswald.de/institut/ueber-uns/mitarbeitende/hoff/Earth Biogenome Project: https://www.earthbiogenome.org/BRAKER1: https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article-abstract/32/5/767/1744611Molecular Biology program Göttingen: https://uni-goettingen.de/en/663690.htmlGreifswald: https://www.greifswald.de/en/