Podcast Episodes
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Episode 54
Nels and Vincent continue their discussion of SARS-CoV-2 from an evolutionary viewpoint, including function of the furin cleavage site, whether Verve…
5 years, 10 months ago
Virus evolution by land and by sea and by CoV, part II
Episode 53
Nels and Vincent continue their discussion of SARS-CoV-2 from an evolutionary viewpoint, focusing on what the genome sequences tell us about the viru…
5 years, 11 months ago
Virus evolution by land and by sea and by CoV
Episode 52
Nels and Vincent examine SARS-CoV-2 from an evolutionary viewpoint, examining what the spike glycoprotein sequence informs us about the origin of the…
6 years ago
The starting point paradox
Episode 51
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 …
6 years, 1 month ago
I'm dreaming of a Y chromosome
Episode 50
Nels and Vincent discuss signatures of sex chromosome evolution revealed by assembly of a young vertebrate Y chromosome from 3-spined stickleback fis…
6 years, 2 months ago
A giant podcast on giant viruses
Episode 49
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…
6 years, 3 months ago
Flipping out with choanos on caffeine
Episode 48
Nels and Vincent reveal a new choanoflagellate that forms multicellular cup shaped colonies that respond to light to alternate between feeding and sw…
6 years, 4 months ago
On the origin of beer species
Episode 47
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 wer…
6 years, 6 months ago
Can an old tumor teach us new tricks?
Episode 46
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 …
6 years, 6 months ago
Microbial secrets of mouse-ear cress
Episode 45
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 b…
6 years, 7 months ago