Maitreya Dunham joins Nels and Vincent to explain how her laboratory uses experimental evolution to study yeast flocculation, the community-building cell aggregation trait.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Maitreya Dunham
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- Dunham Laboratory
- Adaptive Routes to Cell Aggregation in Yeast (Genetics)
- Making the best of a sticky situation (SGD)
- Yeast Genetics and Genomic Course (Cold Spring Harbor)
- Genetic basis of biofilm formation (Beacon)
- 2017 CSH Plate Race (YouTube)
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