TWiEVO 22: E pluribus cerevisiae

Maitreya Dunham joins Nels and Vincent to explain how her laboratory uses experimental evolution to study yeast flocculation, the community-building cell aggregation trait.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Maitreya Dunham

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• Dunham Laboratory
• Adaptive Routes to Cell Aggregation in Yeast (Genetics)
• Making the best of a sticky situation (SGD)
• Yeast Genetics and Genomic Course (Cold Spring Harbor)
• Genetic basis of biofilm formation (Beacon)
• 2017 CSH Plate Race (YouTube)
• Image credit

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