At ASM Microbe in San Francisco, Nels and Vincent meet up with Talia Karasov who reveals that in contrast to agriculture, wild plants are colonized by multiple lineages of pathogenic bacteria.
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At ASM Microbe in San Francisco, Nels and Vincent meet up with Paul Turner to talk about evolutionary considerations in using bacteriophages to treat infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
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Guest: Paul Taylor
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Nels- Science Glass
Vincent- Phage therapy for disseminated Mycobacterial infection
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Dustin Rubinstein joins Nels and Vincent to discuss coevolution of genome architecture and social behavior, and studying social transitions in sponge-dwelling snapping shrimp.
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Dustin- Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies 1 by E.O. Wilson, and The Human Swarm by Mark O. Moffett
Nels- For Love of Insects by Thomas Eisner
Vincent- Quacks blamed for Pakistan HIV-1 outbreak
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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 explore the evolution of new protein-coding genes de novo from nocoding DNA sequences, using the antifreeze protein of northern codfish as a model.
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Nels- Science at Sundance reviews
Vincent- The Rise and Fall of Scientific Authority
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Nels and Vincent move back to reproductive isolation - this time, pre-zygotic, in the charismatic orchid bee where the males make chemically distinct perfumes to attract mates of the same species.
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Nels- Nature Zen: Orchid Bees Are Shiny
Vincent- What You Believe About Science Denial May Be All Wrong
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Nels and Vincent look at the intracellular bacteria Legionella from an evolutionary perspective: the role of gene acquisition and reshuffling from plants, animals, fungi, and archaea in the emergence of human pathogens.
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Nels - Science in Film (twitter)
Vincent - Lunar Eclipse 101
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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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