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Episode 100
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 …
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
The worms strike back!
Episode 98
Nels and Vincent discuss how behavioural individuality determines infection risk in clonal ant colonies.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS…Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
Germs trapping worms
Episode 97
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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Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
Going bananas over the origins of corn
Episode 96
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 c…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Watering the viruses until they bloom
Episode 95
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 nitrog…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
A bacteria, a phage, and a selfish element walk into a cryptomonad
Episode 94
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
Su…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
Faster than a speeding bacteria
Episode 93
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 b…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
There's algae in the jar
Episode 92
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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Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
Meet your very distant cousins
Episode 91
Nels and Vincent discuss new findings using phylogenetic approaches about how complex eukaryotic cells emerged from prokaryotic ancestors, which firmly place eukaryotes as a clade nested within the A…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
The mystery of the mouse mummies
Episode 90
Nels and Vincent provide insights into the mystery of mouse mummies on the summits of >6000 m Andean volcanoes, including whether they were living there and if so why?
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Ra…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago