TWiEVO 52: Virus evolution by land and by sea and by CoV

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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Science Picks 1:18:59


Nels – Alejandro Sanchez TED Talk
Vincent – WHO SARS-CoV-2 Sitrep

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TWiEVO 51: The starting point paradox

helix-loop-helix

Nels and Vincent dive deep into evolution and consider how new proteins emerged billions of years ago, when there were no other proteins to serve as starting material.

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Science Picks 1:01:10


Nels – Universal principled review
Vincent – Hostile Planet by National Geographic

Listener Pick

Courtney – Nightwish Endless Forms Most Beautiful and Shudder Before The Beautiful

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TWiEVO 50: I’m dreaming of a Y chromosome

Nels and Vincent discuss signatures of sex chromosome evolution revealed by assembly of a young vertebrate Y chromosome from 3-spined stickleback fish.

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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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TWiEVO 49: A giant podcast on giant viruses

Rich joins Nels and Vincent for a debriefing on the 4th Ringberg Symposium on Giant Virus Biology in Tegernsee, Germany.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Rich Condit

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Science Picks 1:42:56

Rich – Flightradar24
Nels – Deutsches Museum Munich
Vincent – Diversify Microbiology

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TWiEVO 48: Flipping out with choanos on caffeine

Nels and Vincent reveal a new choanoflagellate that forms multicellular cup shaped colonies that respond to light to alternate between feeding and swimming behavior.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

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Science Picks 1:24:00

Nels – How to write a great science paper by Cormac McCarthy
Vincent – Natural Selection Store

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TWiEVO 47: On the origin of beer species

Nels and Vincent trace the origins of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains used to make beer, and find that ales and lagers are made with yeasts that were derived from those used to make European grape wine and Asian rice wine.

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Science Picks 1:21:24

Nels – Population fluctuations in 10 biggest cities
Vincent – 1.7 million year old rhino tooth (original Nature paper)

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TWiEVO 46: Can an old tumor teach us new tricks?

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.

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Science Picks 1:21:48

Nels – Vasa Museum in Stockholm
Vincent – Nobel Museum in Stockholm

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Irene – @EndlessForms and #PlantScienceFascinatesMe #plantsday

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TWiEVO 45: Microbial secrets of mouse-ear cress

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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Guest: Talia Karasov

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Talia Karasov

TWiEVO 44: The enemy of my enemy is my phage

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 Turner

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Science Picks 57:19

Nels – Science Glass

Vincent – Phage therapy for disseminated Mycobacterial infection

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TWiEVO 43: Social evolution with a side of shrimp

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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Guest: Dustin Rubinstein

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Science Picks 1:07:19

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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