Podcast Episodes

The enemy of my enemy is my phage

Episode 44

At ASM Microbe in San Francisco, Nels and Vincent meet up with Paul Turner to talk about evolutionary considerations in using bacteriophages to treat…

6 years, 8 months ago

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Social evolution with a side of shrimp

Episode 43

Dustin Rubinstein joins Nels and Vincent to discuss coevolution of genome architecture and social behavior, and studying social transitions in sponge…

6 years, 9 months ago

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Who's who in your genome

Episode 42

Nels and Vincent review the contribution of multiple Denisovan lineages to the modern Papuan genome.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

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6 years, 10 months ago

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Where do baby genes come from?

Episode 41

Nels and Vincent explore the evolution of new protein-coding genes de novo from nocoding DNA sequences, using the antifreeze protein of northern codf…

6 years, 11 months ago

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Eau de bee

Episode 40

Nels and Vincent move back to reproductive isolation - this time, pre-zygotic, in the charismatic orchid bee where the males make chemically distinct…

7 years, 1 month ago

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In a Legionella of their own

Episode 39

Nels and Vincent look at the intracellular bacteria Legionella from an evolutionary perspective: the role of gene acquisition and reshuffling from pl…

7 years, 1 month ago

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Evolving to evolve

Episode 38

Nels and Vincent reveal a highly conserved protein that acts as an evolvability factor, increasing mutation and the ability of bacteria to become res…

7 years, 2 months ago

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A tangled tree on the Quammens

Episode 37

David Quammen joins Nels and Vincent to talk about his new book, A Tangled Tree, including evolutionary trees, Carl Woese, Lynn Margulis, horizontal …

7 years, 4 months ago

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All's not quiet on the telomeric front

Episode 36

Mia joins Nels and Vincent to unravel their finding that the transposons that maintain the ends of chromosomes in Drosophilahave evolved in conflict …

7 years, 4 months ago

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Strawberry sex chromosomes forever

Episode 35

Nels and Vincent reveal that female-specific DNA associated with sex in strawberries has repeatedly changed its genomic location, possibly linking ne…

7 years, 5 months ago

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