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.

Links for this episode

• Cell cycle regulation gene causes hybrid inviability in fruit fly (Science)
• Phadnis laboratory
• Phadnis laboratory on Facebook
• Gene for new species discovered (UNews)
• Tardigrade HGT disputed (bioRxiv)
• Photo credit: Lee J. Siegel, University of Utah

Science Picks

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.

Links for this episode

• Stable recombination hotspots in birds (Science)
• Putting the breaks on meiosis (Science)
• Evolutionary stability of recombination in yeast (Science)
• Image credit

Science Picks

Nels - Tardigrade horizontal gene transfer (The Atlantic article)
Vincent - Einstein's theory of relativity changed everything

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