TWiEVO 109: On the origins of orange

Nels and Vincent discuss the molecular and genetic origins of sex-linked orange coat color in cats.

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Science Picks 1:00:09

Nels – AI takes up science podcasting
Vincent – Humans evolved for distance running – but ancestor ‘Lucy’ didn’t go far or fast

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TWiEVO 108: A virus in every parasite

Nels and Vincent review the identification of a novel virus associated with the pathogen Plasmodium knowlsei and which is part part of a diverse and unclassified viral taxon.

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Science Picks 1:13:16

Nels – The peace of wild things, poem by Wendell Berry
Vincent – All Life on Earth Today Descended From a Single Cell. Meet LUCA

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TWiEVO 107: One small step for cells, one giant step for cell kind

Nels and Vincent discuss the origins of eukaryotes, with contributions from at least 3 bacteria (alphaproteobacteria) and a large contribution from DNA viruses with large genomes.

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Science Picks 1:20:26

Nels – BioArt from NIH
Vincent – How beavers built New York

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TWiEVO 106: What’s old immunity is new again

Nels and Vincent explain how homology searches of anti-phage systems in eukaryotic genomes can be used to discover proteins of the human immune system.

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Science Picks 1:09:40

Nels – Pathoplexus.org
Vincent – Can science cure its addiction to plastic?

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TWiEVO 105: Not every rose has its thorn

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Nels and Vincent look at how plant prickles, sharp epidermal projections that provide defense from predators and other advantages, arose by convergent evolution, the emergence of analogous traits in distantly related species.

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Science Picks 1:13:38

Nels – Trees as a metaphor to understand relationships in biology
Vincent – Project 2025 vs. The Public’s Health

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TWiEVO 104: Wooly mammoth prosciutto

Nels and Vincent discuss the genome sequence of an ancient wooly mammoth, which shows that the three-dimensional architecture of the DNA can persist after 50,000 years.

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Science Picks 1:07:36

Nels – Mysterious SARS-CoV-2 variants showing up in sewer samples
Vincent – ‘Cocaine sharks’ found in waters off Brazil

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TWiEVO 103: Change the world by duplicating yourself

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Nels and Vincent explore a direct experimental test of Ohno’s Hypothesis, which states that gene duplication can help genes tolerate new mutations and thus facilitates the evolution of new phenotypes.

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Science Picks 1:25:27

Nels – Experimental Evolution and the Nature of Biodiversity
Vincent – Is science’s dominant funding model broken?

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TWiEVO 102: Kelp gets some viral help

Nels and Vincent explain how deep genomics of macroalgae illuminate multiple paths to aquatic, photosynthetic multicellularity.

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Science Picks 1:18:50

Nels – 12-sided Roman relic baffles archaeologists, spawns countless theories
Vincent – TWiEVO 11: Microbial accomplices in multicellularity and the follow up Synergistic Cues from Diverse Bacteria Enhance Multicellular Development in a Choanoflagellate

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TWiEVO 101: 99 problems but a tail ain’t one

Nels and Vincent review the genetic basis for tail-loss evolution in humans and apes.

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Science Picks 1:23:13

Nels – Will Brie and Camembert Cheeses Go Extinct?
Vincent – A True Human Tail in a Neonate: Case report and literature review

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TWiEVO 100: Spaces that celebrate science

Rich Condit joins Nels and Vincent at the Science Mill in Johnson City, Texas, where Director of STEM Education Jeehyun Park talks about the goals of the childrens’ museum.

Hosts: Nels Elde, Vincent Racaniello, and Rich Condit

Guest: Jeehyun Park

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Science Picks 1:17:54

Nels – Science Mill: More Than a Museum and Elde Lab Video
Rich – The Moon May Get Its Own Time Zone (Claire Fahy, NYT 3/7/2023)
Vincent – SXSW Session “From Adversary to Ally: Reimagining Viruses as Medicines“

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