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This Week in Evolution Vincent Racaniello
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This Week in Evolution is a podcast on the biology of what makes us tick. Hosts Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello take you through the new evolution that has been revolutionized by the field of genomics and molecular biology.
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A bacteria, a phage, and a selfish element walk into a cryptomonad
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
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•A single crowded cryptomonad cell (Curr Biol)
•Letters read on TWiEVO 94
Science Picks Nels – What happened at NIH during the last government shutdown
Vincent – Geneticist J. Craig Venter: ‘I consider retirement tantamount to death’
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Faster than a speeding bacteria
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 be grown in lab culture.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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• Evolution of a minimal cell (Nature)
Science Picks Nels – Life magnified stamp collection
Vincent – Matters Microbial
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There's algae in the jar
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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• Metabolic evolution during competition (Curr Biol)
Science Picks Nels – How amino acids got their names (Source)
Vincent – EVs Fix One Pollution Problem—And Worsen Another
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Meet your very distant cousins
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 Asgard archaea.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent RacanielloS
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•Heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes (Nature)
Science Picks Nels – Juneteenth issue of Cell – collection of essays from black and brown scientists
Vincent – Tara Oceans
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The mystery of the mouse mummies
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 Racaniello
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•Mystery of mouse mummies (bioRxiv)
Science Picks Nels – Zoonomia
Vincent – SeaPhages
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On the outer rim of tumor evolution
Nels and Vincent discuss the observation that cells on a boundary of a solid tumor have higher growth rates compared to those in the center and how to model this difference using genome sequencing data.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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•Evolutionary models of solid tumor growth (Nat Ecol Evol)
Science Picks Nels – TWiV 1000
Vincent – The dream of wiping out polio might need a rethink
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Customer Reviews
So good
Informative and scientifically inspiring. Hosts and guests are excellent.
Love this show
Great one to learn while pipetting in the lab!
Listener
I think Vincent should stick to Virology and not politics. I resent his arrogance as he is neither educated in or has any real world work experience in the politics and economics he is so eager to push in his podcast, especially when he is surrounded with others that also have no real experience other than the post modernist thinking of the university. If he wants to bandstand his politics in his podcast, he should have the guts to have Ben Shapiro as a guest He might just end up reevaluating his hubris in light of someone who actually can defend his stance with facts. What do you say Vince???