Nels and Vincent reveal a highly conserved protein that acts as an evolvability factor, increasing mutation and the ability of bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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Nels- Science/nature illustrator/artist Rachel Ignotofsky (website, Etsy shop)
Vincent- Life Ascending by Nick Lane
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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.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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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Hey farmer farmer put away the chlor-pyri-fus
I don’t care about spots on my apples
Leave me the manatee and walruses
Nels - New dinosaur discovered in Utah
Vincent -The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen
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Nels and Vincent are astounded by the finding of an insect-derived virus in a fungus that manipulates the behavior of flies.
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Nels - Mindsuckers; getting photos; Anand Varma photos
Vincent - Happy Birthday Gregor Mendel
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Matt joins Nels and Vincent to discuss the neutral theory of evolution and its rejection in light of genome-scale data.
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Guest: Matt Hahn
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Nels - Inaugural Transposon Day
Vincent - How many human genes?
Anne- Plants repeatedly lose ability to obtain nitrogen
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Nels and Vincent present ancient hepatitis B virus genome sequences from Bronze Age to Medieval period human remains.
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Nels - Sampling whale breathwith drones (Preprint)
Vincent - Verge Science
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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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Nels and Vincent discuss the evolution of blood feeding to nonbiting in a mosquito, and evolution of bacterial virulence in the house finch caused by incomplete host immunity.
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Nels - IDEA and Impossible Foods
Vincent - it is NOT junk
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Sarah Tishkoff joins Nels and Vincent to explain work from her laboratory on the genetic basis of skin pigmentation in Africans.
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Nels - In Defense of Plants (Shrew Loo)
Vincent - Contribution of NIH funding to new drug approvals
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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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