Louise Moncla joins Nels and Vincent to review her use of genomics to understand emergence, evolution, and transmission of respiratory viruses including influenza virus H5N1, mumps virus, and SARS-CoV-2.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Louise Moncla
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Nels – JWST Images
Vincent – 3rd International Symposium on Infectious Diseases of Bats and Program
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Nels and Vincent discuss an analysis of the drivers of evolution of SARS-CoV-2 during chronic infections, indicating that a tradeoff exists between antibody evasion and fitness.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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Nels – NASA scientists say images from the Webb telescope nearly brought them to tears
Vincent – FDA: Don’t rush a move to change the Covid-19 vaccine composition
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Alex joins Nels and Vincent to discuss his work which demonstrates that somatic mutation rates scale with lifespan in mammals.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Alex Cagan
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Alex – Paper.app
Nels – Fifty years since Lewontin’s apportionment of human diversity
Vincent – An Exceptional Village
Martha – Plagues Upon the Earth by Kyle Harper
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Nels and Vincent describe how a single amino acid change can allow E. coli to replace the essential gut symbiont of the stinkbug Plautia stali.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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Nels – Inequality in science and the case for a new agenda
Vincent – Foundations of Virology by Fred Murphy
Sam – Saturday Morning Breakfast – Evolutionist
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Nels and Vincent review isolation of SARS-CoV-2-like viruses from bats in Laos that can replicate in human cells.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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Nels – Erich Jarvis on scientists and public engagement
Vincent – Polio type 1 in Africa
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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Joe Graves
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Nels – Where is Webb?
Vincent – Black Microbiologists Association
Joe – Biology versus bias
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Nels and Vincent examine SARS-CoV-2 from an evolutionary viewpoint, examining what the spike glycoprotein sequence informs us about the origin of the virus.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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Nels - Alejandro Sanchez TED Talk
Vincent - WHO SARS-CoV-2 Sitrep
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Nels and Vincent discuss signatures of sex chromosome evolution revealed by assembly of a young vertebrate Y chromosome from 3-spined stickleback fish.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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Nels - Genome from a 5,700-Year-Old Wad of Chewed Gum
Vincent - NJ Sea-Level Rise Reports
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Nels and Vincent analyze the genomes of canine transmissible tumors to provide insight into the worldwide spread of the disease from its origin in a single dog 4000-8500 years ago, and its diversity, mutation, and evolution.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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Nels - Vasa Museum in Stockholm
Vincent - Nobel Museum in Stockholm
Irene - @EndlessFormsand #PlantScienceFascinatesMe #plantsday
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Nels and Vincent review the contribution of multiple Denisovan lineages to the modern Papuan genome.
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Nels- Sydney Brenner - What Genomes Can Tell Us About the Past
Vincent- Scientific Communication in a Post-Truth Society
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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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