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Rich Condit joins Nels and Vincent to explain how a vaccinia virus protein customizes ribosomes to favor the translation of viral mRNAs with a stretch of A residues in the 5'-untranslated region.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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Science PicksRich - Sniffing out significant “Pee values”
Nels - Cuttlefish mimicking a hermit crab (evolutionary context)
Vincent - Our first bioRxiv submission!
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Nels and Vincent explore the role of TSR proteins during colonization of cnidarians by dinoflagellates.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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Nels - CRISPR 5 ways
Vincent - The Vital Question by Nick Lane
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Jonathan Weiner, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Beak of the Finch, joins Nels and Vincent to talk about his career and his writing.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Jonathan Weiner
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Nels - The Gap by Ira Glass
Vincent - EPA removes climate science site
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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
Guests: Ni-Chen 'Sylvia' Chang, Waring 'Buck' Trible, and Sean K. McKenzie
Buck and Sean join Vincent in New York, while Sylvia is with Nels in Salt Lake City to discuss the first mutant ant ever made: disruption of orco, a gene required for function of odorant receptors, show defects in social behavior and fitness.
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Science PicksNels - Urban Nature and What Makes a City Ant?
Vincent - Animations from WEHI
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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Stephen Goff
Nels joins Vincent in New York City to speak with Stephen Goff about transmissible clam cancers and the silencing of integrated retroviral genomes.
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Science PicksNels - Mindsuckers
Vincent - What is a species?
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Nels and Vincent reveal how introns - the parts of pre-mRNAs that are removed by splicing - were generated by DNA transposons in two different picoeukaryotes.
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Science PicksNels - Did eukaryotes invent anything? (TWiM 144)
Vincent - Virology course online
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Guest: Hopi Hoekstra
Nels and Vincent speak with Hopi Hoekstra about her career and the work of her laboratory on developmental mechanisms of stripe patterns in rodents.
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Science PicksHopi -Diversify EEB, Anne's List
Nels - Celebration for Harry Noller
Vincent - Biological Warfare, Virus Style (journal article)
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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
Guests: Jessica Brown, Michael Kay, Wayne Potts, June Round, and Janis Weis
From the Microbial Pathogenesis Retreat of the University of Utah School of Medicine, held at the Utah Museum of Natural History, Nels and Vincent speak with faculty members about their work on bacteria, fungi, viruses, and mirror-image biochemistry.
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Science PicksNels - An Open Letter to My Class
Vincent - The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner
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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Corrie Moreau
Corrie joins Nels and Vincent to talk about her comparative analysis of the genomes of mutualist ants that nest in plants, and non-symbiotic species.
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Science PicksNels - Mind-melting animated gifs
Vincent - Parasites Without Borders
Corrie - Brain Scoop with Emily Graslie
Chris - Shark weapons
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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Josh Drew
Josh joins Nels and Vincent to talk about his research on the evolution and conservation of aquatic tropical biodiversity, and the historical ecology of 19th century American Whalers.
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Science PicksNels - Dr. Mary-Claire King at World Science Festival
Vincent - Contagious Thinking
Josh - Diversify EEB
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