Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOn racism, not race with Joe Graves
Episode 74
Joe Graves joins Nels and Vincent to discuss his career in evolutionary biology and his recent book that answers questions about race and racism.
Hos…
4 years, 1 month ago
With a little help from your hosts
Episode 73
Nels and Vincent review three aspects of SARS-CoV-2: phylogenetics of Omicron, a two-step fitness selection for variants, and putative RNA insertions…
4 years, 2 months ago
Echoes of evolution both shallow and deep
Episode 72
Nels and Vincent discuss evolutionary evidence for an epidemic of coronavirus infection over 20,000 years ago in East Asia, and reconstruction of the…
4 years, 4 months ago
Faster than a speeding coronavirus
Episode 71
Nels and Vincent explain a method to calculate the mutation rate of SARS-CoV-2, and the role of a single amino acid change in spike in enhancing fitn…
4 years, 5 months ago
On Life's Edge with Carl Zimmer
Episode 70
Carl Zimmer joins Nels to talk about science writing, science communication, viruses, and his new book, On Life's Edge.
Host: Nels Elde
Guest: Carl Z…
4 years, 7 months ago
Swimming in SARS-CoV-2 sequences
Episode 69
Nels and Vincent discuss the identification of novel bat coronaviruses that shed light on the evolution of SARS-CoV-2, dating the first cases of COVI…
4 years, 8 months ago
Stepping through time with SARS-CoV-2
Episode 68
Nels and Vincent explain a new method for calculating the most recent common ancestor of SARS-CoV-2, which concludes that the ancestral virus was cir…
4 years, 9 months ago
Corona chameleon
Episode 67
Nels and Vincent review evidence for recombinant SARS-CoV-2 genomes arising in the B.1.1.7 lineage within the United Kingdom.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vi…
4 years, 10 months ago
SARS-2-mouse
Episode 66
Nels and Vincent review a preprint demonstrating that changes in the genomes of the SARS-CoV-2 variants B1.351 and P.1 allow the viruses to reproduce…
4 years, 11 months ago
Variants in the mist
Episode 65
Nels and Vincent review evidence that a single amino acid change in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein has driven adaptation to humans, followed by an upda…
5 years ago