Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Corrie Moreau
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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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
Nels and Vincent continue with an emerging sub-theme of TWiEVO - organisms with wings - as they reveal how enhancer shuffling produces diverse butterfly wing patterns.
Nels - Hill Country Science Mill
Vincent - The Butterfly Conservatory
Stephen - Darwin Legacy
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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
Guests: Kartik Chandran and Sara Sawyer
Sara and Kartik join Nels and Vincent to talk about the filovirus receptor NPC1 regulates Ebolavirus susceptibility in bats.
Nels - Sundance Film Festival and Meru
Vincent - Quanta podcast (iTunes)
Sara - Isolation of Marburg viruses from fruit bats
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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Nitin Phadnis
Nitin joins Nels and Vincent to explain how he identified a gene that is responsible for male inviability in hybrids from a cross between two species of fruit flies.
Nels - Watercolor of Darwin and crew
Vincent - SpaceX rocket landing (Verge and ArsTechnica)
Nitin - 120th anniversary of Roentgen's first X-ray
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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
Nels and Vincent discuss the evolution of recombination in the genomes of birds and yeast.
Nels - Tardigrade horizontal gene transfer (The Atlantic article)
Vincent - Einstein's theory of relativity changed everything
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