Nels and Vincent discuss how behavioural individuality determines infection risk in clonal ant colonies.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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Links for this episodeNels – Fungi (lichens) in Space Vincent – Polar bear energetic and behavioral strategies on land with implications for surviving the ice-free period
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Nels and Vincent review a study of the key processes required for the different stages of fungal carnivory by a nematode-trapping fungus.
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Links for this episodeNels – Openly available illustrations as tools to describe eukaryotic microbial diversity Vincent – Dana-Farber retractions: meet the blogger who spotted problems in dozens of cancer papers
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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 cultivated banana genome.
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Links for this episodeNels – Why we need an academic career path that combines science and art – Nature Careers Podcast Vincent – Science’s 2023 Breakthrough and Breakdown
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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 nitrogen mineralization, and is accompanied by a bloom of viral diversity, followed by extensive viral community turnover.
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Links for this episodeNels - Bluesky Vincent - Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology
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Nels and Vincent take apart an amazing symbiosis consisting of two bacteria, one bacteriophage, and seven different genomes all within a single-celled alga.
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Links for this episode•Join the MicrobeTV Discord server •A single crowded cryptomonad cell (Curr Biol) •Letters read on TWiEVO 94
Science PicksNels – What happened at NIH during the last government shutdown Vincent – Geneticist J. Craig Venter: ‘I consider retirement tantamount to death’
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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.
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Links for this episode•Join the MicrobeTV Discord server • Evolution of a minimal cell (Nature)
Science PicksNels – Life magnified stamp collection
Vincent – Matters Microbial
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Nels and Vincent explain a study of how interspecies competition between two algae influences evolution of metabolism and size.
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Links for this episode•Join the MicrobeTV Discord server • Metabolic evolution during competition (Curr Biol)
Science PicksNels – How amino acids got their names (Source)
Vincent – EVs Fix One Pollution Problem—And Worsen Another
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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.
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Links for this episode•Join the MicrobeTV Discord server •Heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes (Nature)
Science PicksNels – Juneteenth issue of Cell – collection of essays from black and brown scientists
Vincent – Tara Oceans
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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?
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Links for this episode•Join the MicrobeTV Discord server •Mystery of mouse mummies (bioRxiv)
Science PicksNels – Zoonomia Vincent – SeaPhages
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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.
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Links for this episode•Join the MicrobeTV Discord server •Evolutionary models of solid tumor growth (Nat Ecol Evol)
Science PicksNels – TWiV 1000 Vincent – The dream of wiping out polio might need a rethink
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Nels and Vincent review a study of the dogs of Chernobyl which reveals that genetically distinct populations with different amounts of western breed contributions to their genomes, the first step in assessing the effects of exposure to long-term ionizing radiation.
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Links for this episode•Join the MicrobeTV Discord server •The dogs of Chernobyl (Science Adv) •What the dogs of Chernobyl can teach us (Stat) •Letters read on TWiEVO 88
Science PicksNels – Hellbent documentary and Insufficient evidence for natural selection associated with the Black Death Vincent – BioRender
Listener PickWalter – Oded Rechavi and interview
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