David Quammen joins Nels and Vincent to talk about his new book, A Tangled Tree, including evolutionary trees, Carl Woese, Lynn Margulis, horizontal gene transfer, and much more.
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Guest: David Quammen
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Mia joins Nels and Vincent to unravel their finding that the transposons that maintain the ends of chromosomes in Drosophilahave evolved in conflict with the genome.
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Guest: Mia Levine
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Nels - Cinema Science podcast
Vincent - Mastodon bones unearthed (Instagram, Grand Rapids News)
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Nels and Vincent reveal that female-specific DNA associated with sex in strawberries has repeatedly changed its genomic location, possibly linking new genes with sex.
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Nels - New snailfish and Cloned crayfish
Vincent - A PhD Lab Coat Ceremony
Steve - Diversity in simple blobs
Justin - On Growth and Forms by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
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Nels and Vincent discuss how the loss of an enzyme in marine mammals millions of years ago now makes them at risk for neurotoxicity caused by human-made organophosphorous pesticides.
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Nels - New dinosaur discovered in Utah
Vincent -The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen
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Nels and Vincent reveal how a motor protein in corn causes preferential transmission of chromosomes to egg cells, leading to non-Mendelian inheritance.
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Nels - Craypot stinkhorn mushroom (Colus pusilus)
Vincent -Doubts raised over plan to release herpesvirus to wipe out carp
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Taking a cue from the recent frigid weather, Nels and Vincent explore how modifications of a neuronal cold-sensing channel regulate diminished cold sensitivity in hibernating mammals.
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Nels - Undergrad podcasters from Stonehill College
Vincent - Viruses at Target
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Vinny Lynch joins Nels and Vincent to discuss how a zombie gene in elephants protects these large, long lived animals from cancer.
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Nels - Animalism
Vincent - Voyager I fires up thrusters after 37 years
Vinny - Rollin' Wild
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Nels and Vincent discuss a genomic analysis of the passenger pigeon, which shows that species with large and stable populations may be at risk of extinction after a sudden environmental change.
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Nels - Video of nematophagous fungi
Vincent - How should novelty be valued in science?
John - Evo-Devo (Despacito Biology Parody)
Melanie - What's in John's Freezer
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Marco Vignuzzi joins Nels and Vincent to discuss recent work from his laboratory on redirecting RNA virus evolution in sequence space.
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Guest: Marco Vignuzzi
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Nels - Global Tagging of Pelagic Predators
Vincent - Why has the EPA shifted on toxic chemicals?
Marco - Labs of Siobain Duffy, Seema Lackdawala, Chris Brook
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Nels and Vincent reveal how the protein DHX9 suppresses RNA processing defects caused by invasion of the Alu retroelement into the human genome.
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Nels - Saving Hellbender Salamanders
Vincent - The Living River
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Maitreya Dunham joins Nels and Vincent to explain how her laboratory uses experimental evolution to study yeast flocculation, the community-building cell aggregation trait.
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Nels - Floating Fire Ant Colonies in Houston and Help for Houston Researchers
Vincent - Help People Affected by Harvey and How To Help Harvey Victims
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Rich Condit joins Nels and Vincent to explain how a vaccinia virus protein customizes ribosomes to favor the translation of viral mRNAs with a stretch of A residues in the 5'-untranslated region.
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Rich - Sniffing out significant “Pee values”
Nels - Cuttlefish mimicking a hermit crab (evolutionary context)
Vincent - Our first bioRxiv submission!
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Nels and Vincent explore the role of TSR proteins during colonization of cnidarians by dinoflagellates.
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Nels - CRISPR 5 ways
Vincent - The Vital Question by Nick Lane
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Jonathan Weiner, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Beak of the Finch, joins Nels and Vincent to talk about his career and his writing.
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Nels - The Gap by Ira Glass
Vincent - EPA removes climate science site
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Buck and Sean join Vincent in New York, while Sylvia is with Nels in Salt Lake City to discuss the first mutant ant ever made: disruption of orco, a gene required for function of odorant receptors, show defects in social behavior and fitness.
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Nels - Urban Nature and What Makes a City Ant?
Vincent - Animations from WEHI
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Nels and Vincent reveal how introns - the parts of pre-mRNAs that are removed by splicing - were generated by DNA transposons in two different picoeukaryotes.
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Nels - Did eukaryotes invent anything? (TWiM 144)
Vincent - Virology course online
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Nels and Vincent speak with Hopi Hoekstra about her career and the work of her laboratory on developmental mechanisms of stripe patterns in rodents.
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Hopi -Diversify EEB, Anne's List
Nels - Celebration for Harry Noller
Vincent - Biological Warfare, Virus Style (journal article)
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Guests: Jessica Brown, Michael Kay, Wayne Potts, June Round, and Janis Weis
From the Microbial Pathogenesis Retreat of the University of Utah School of Medicine, held at the Utah Museum of Natural History, Nels and Vincent speak with faculty members about their work on bacteria, fungi, viruses, and mirror-image biochemistry.
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Nels - An Open Letter to My Class
Vincent - The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner
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Corrie joins Nels and Vincent to talk about her comparative analysis of the genomes of mutualist ants that nest in plants, and non-symbiotic species.
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Nels - Mind-melting animated gifs
Vincent - Parasites Without Borders
Corrie - Brain Scoop with Emily Graslie
Chris - Shark weapons
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Guest: Josh Drew
Josh joins Nels and Vincent to talk about his research on the evolution and conservation of aquatic tropical biodiversity, and the historical ecology of 19th century American Whalers.
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Nels - Dr. Mary-Claire King at World Science Festival
Vincent - Contagious Thinking
Josh - Diversify EEB
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Guest: Nicole King
Nicole joins Nels and Vincent to discuss the finding of her laboratory that multicellular development of choanoflagellates, the closest living relatives of animals, is regulated by bacterial lipids.
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Nels - I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong (Fresh Air interview)
Vincent - Viral Infections of Leisure by David Schlossberg
Justin - Endless Forms Most Beautiful by Sean B. Carroll
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Nels and Vincent review experiments showing that the replacement of a pale moth with a black one during the industrial revolution was caused by a transposable element.
Nels - Is Pokémon Go good for science? (one, two, three)
Vincent - Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
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Guest: Jim Bull
Nels and Vincent speak with Jim Bull about the results of genetic models which suggest that the evolution of inbreeding in response to lethal gene drive might make population control difficult to achieve.
Nels - Fertilization with parasitic sperm
Vincent - Undark
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Nels visits Vincent in the MicrobeTV studio in New York and talks about how key genes of the Homo sapiens innate immune response were acquired from Neanderthals.
Nels - DNA Clues to our Inner Neanderthal
Vincent - Blockhead
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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Mike Shapiro
Mike joins Nels and Vincent to talk about his work on what controls whether pigeons have scaly or feathered feet, and reveals that the hindlimbs of domestic birds with feathery feet are more like wings at the molecular level.
Mike - Pigeon exhibit, Natural History Museum of Utah; Pigeonetics (App store); Darwin's Pigeons
Nels - National Parasite Collection
Vincent - The Story Collider
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