Nels and Vincent explain how deep genomics of macroalgae illuminate multiple paths to aquatic, photosynthetic multicellularity.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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Links for this episodeNels – 12-sided Roman relic baffles archaeologists, spawns countless theories Vincent – TWiEVO 11: Microbial accomplices in multicellularity and the follow up Synergistic Cues from Diverse Bacteria Enhance Multicellular Development in a Choanoflagellate
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Nels and Vincent review the genetic basis for tail-loss evolution in humans and apes.
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Links for this episodeNels – Will Brie and Camembert Cheeses Go Extinct? Vincent – A True Human Tail in a Neonate: Case report and literature review
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Nels and Vincent reveal how electric organ discharge from the electric eel facilitates the introduction of DNA into teleost larvae.
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Links for this episodeNels – “The Jump” quilt by Cristina Arcenegui Bono Vincent – T4 bacteriophage art object and Gwenbeads Etsy shop
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Nels and Vincent discuss how behavioural individuality determines infection risk in clonal ant colonies.
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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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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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