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
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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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Guest: Maitreya Dunham
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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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Nels and Vincent explore the role of TSR proteins during colonization of cnidarians by dinoflagellates.
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Nels - CRISPR 5 ways
Vincent - The Vital Question by Nick Lane
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Jonathan Weiner, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Beak of the Finch, joins Nels and Vincent to talk about his career and his writing.
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Nels - The Gap by Ira Glass
Vincent - EPA removes climate science site
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Guests: Ni-Chen 'Sylvia' Chang, Waring 'Buck' Trible, and Sean K. McKenzie
Buck and Sean join Vincent in New York, while Sylvia is with Nels in Salt Lake City to discuss the first mutant ant ever made: disruption of orco, a gene required for function of odorant receptors, show defects in social behavior and fitness.
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Nels - Urban Nature and What Makes a City Ant?
Vincent - Animations from WEHI
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Guest: Stephen Goff
Nels joins Vincent in New York City to speak with Stephen Goff about transmissible clam cancers and the silencing of integrated retroviral genomes.
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Nels - Mindsuckers
Vincent - What is a species?
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Nels and Vincent reveal how introns - the parts of pre-mRNAs that are removed by splicing - were generated by DNA transposons in two different picoeukaryotes.
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Nels - Did eukaryotes invent anything? (TWiM 144)
Vincent - Virology course online
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Guest: Hopi Hoekstra
Nels and Vincent speak with Hopi Hoekstra about her career and the work of her laboratory on developmental mechanisms of stripe patterns in rodents.
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Hopi -Diversify EEB, Anne's List
Nels - Celebration for Harry Noller
Vincent - Biological Warfare, Virus Style (journal article)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nels and Vincent talk about how a cellular enzyme contributes to the very high mutation rate of human immunodeficiency virus type 1.
Nels - Antelope Island State Park (Bison herders wanted)
Vincent - Processed meats cause cancer
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Nels and Vincent launch a new podcast on evolution, and start by discussing how the field has changed through recent mergers of evolutionary and experimental biology in the post-genome era.
Nels - Your inner fish (video stream, Shubin website)
Vincent - Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov
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