TWiEVO 102: Kelp gets some viral help

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

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

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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.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

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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 99: A shocking means to move genes

Nels and Vincent reveal how electric organ discharge from the electric eel facilitates the introduction of DNA into teleost larvae.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

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Nels – “The Jump” quilt by Cristina Arcenegui Bono
Vincent – T4 bacteriophage art object and Gwenbeads Etsy shop

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TWiEVO 98: The worms strike back!

Nels and Vincent discuss how behavioural individuality determines infection risk in clonal ant colonies.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

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Science Picks 1:06:28

Nels – Fungi (lichens) in Space
Vincent – Polar bear energetic and behavioral strategies on land with implications for surviving the ice-free period

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TWiEVO 97: Germs trapping worms

Nels and Vincent review a study of the key processes required for the different stages of fungal carnivory by a nematode-trapping fungus.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

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Science Picks 1:04:21

Nels – Openly available illustrations as tools to describe eukaryotic microbial diversity
Vincent – Dana-Farber retractions: meet the blogger who spotted problems in dozens of cancer papers

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TWiEVO 96: Going bananas over the origins of corn

Nels and Vincent discuss the origins of two modern day agriculturally important plants: a role for two different wild teosintes in making modern maize, and the origin and evolution of the triploid cultivated banana genome.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

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Science Picks 1:16:16

Nels – Why we need an academic career path that combines science and art – Nature Careers Podcast
Vincent – Science’s 2023 Breakthrough and Breakdown

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TWiEVO 95: Watering the viruses until they bloom

Nels and Vincent discuss how the rewetting of seasonally dried soils, a critical event in Mediterranean grasslands that reactivates dormant soil microorganisms, leading to pulses of carbon and nitrogen mineralization, and is accompanied by a bloom of viral diversity, followed by extensive viral community turnover.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

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•Viral but not bacterial community turnover after rewetting dry soils (Nat Ecol Evol) 6:19

Science Picks 49:30

Nels – Bluesky
Vincent – Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology

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Ryan – Birds in North American will be renamed

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TWiEVO 94: A bacteria, a phage, and a selfish element walk into a cryptomonad

Nels and Vincent take apart an amazing symbiosis consisting of two bacteria, one bacteriophage, and seven different genomes all within a single-celled alga.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

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•A single crowded cryptomonad cell (Curr Biol) 9:01
•Letters read on TWiEVO 94 7:40

Science Picks 1:23:00

Nels – What happened at NIH during the last government shutdown
Vincent – Geneticist J. Craig Venter: ‘I consider retirement tantamount to death’

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TWiEVO 93: Faster than a speeding bacteria

Nels and Vincent review a collision of synthetic biology and experimental evolution, using a minimal synthetic bacterial cell with only 473 genes, the smallest genome of any known organism that can be grown in lab culture.

 

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

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• Evolution of a minimal cell (Nature) 6:10, 20:51

Science Picks 1:24:18

Nels – Life magnified stamp collection

Vincent – Matters Microbial

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TWiEVO 92: There’s algae in the jar

Nels and Vincent explain a study of how interspecies competition between two algae influences evolution of metabolism and size.

 

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

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• Metabolic evolution during competition (Curr Biol) 7:56

Science Picks 1:26:59

Nels – How amino acids got their names (Source)

Vincent – EVs Fix One Pollution Problem—And Worsen Another

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