This Week in Evolution

By 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.

Episode Date
TWiEVO 98: The worms strike back!
Feb 27, 2024
TWiEVO 97: Germs trapping worms
Feb 27, 2024
TWiEVO 96: Going bananas over the origins of corn
Dec 26, 2023
TWiEVO 95: Watering the viruses until they bloom
Nov 14, 2023
TWiEVO 94: A bacteria, a phage, and a selfish element walk into a cryptomonad
Sep 29, 2023
TWiEVO 93: Faster than a speeding bacteria
Aug 25, 2023
TWiEVO 92: There's algae in the jar
Jul 21, 2023
TWiEVO 91: Meet your very distant cousins
Jul 17, 2023
TWiEVO 90: The mystery of the mouse mummies
May 12, 2023
TWiEVO 89: On the outer rim of tumor evolution
Apr 25, 2023
TWiEVO 88: Dog days of evolution in the shadows of Chernobyl
Mar 26, 2023
TWiEVO 87: Nathan Clark's revolutionary hair care advice
Feb 21, 2023
TWiEVO 86: Pulling out the stops in genetic code evolution
Feb 05, 2023
TWiEVO 85: Teaching old dogs new genetic tricks
Dec 21, 2022
TWiEVO 84: Decoding our defenses to the Black Death
Nov 08, 2022
TWiEVO 83: Evolution spreads its wings (and then loses them)
Oct 24, 2022
TWiEVO 82: A genetic hack for the human brain
Sep 25, 2022
TWiEVO 81: Evolution's new and improved slime molds
Aug 24, 2022
TWiEVO 80: Viruses of a feather bottleneck together
Aug 01, 2022
TWiEVO 79: When the immune system is away, SARS-CoV-2 will play
Jul 02, 2022
TWiEVO 78: The virus daily double
May 26, 2022
TWiEVO 77: The mutations of our lives
Apr 26, 2022
TWiEVO 76: One-step symbiosis
Mar 22, 2022
TWiEVO 75: Even the BANAL coronaviruses are interesting
Feb 24, 2022
TWiEVO 74: On racism, not race with Joe Graves
Feb 03, 2022
TWiEVO 73: With a little help from your hosts
Dec 28, 2021
TWiEVO 72: Echoes of evolution both shallow and deep
Oct 26, 2021
TWiEVO 71: Faster than a speeding coronavirus
Sep 27, 2021
TWiEVO 70: On Life's Edge with Carl Zimmer
Aug 03, 2021
TWiEVO 69: Swimming in SARS-CoV-2 sequences
Jun 30, 2021
TWiEVO 68: Stepping through time with SARS-CoV-2
May 29, 2021
TWiVEO 67: Corona chameleon
Apr 22, 2021
TWiEVO 66: SARS-2-mouse
Mar 25, 2021
TWiEVO 65: Variants in the mist
Feb 25, 2021
TWiEVO 64: Seeing the lineages for the variants
Jan 22, 2021
TWiEVO 63: Year of the coronavirus
Dec 31, 2020
TWiEVO 62: Army ants with Daniel Kronauer
Dec 07, 2020
TWiEVO 61: Shot and chaser of SARS-CoV-2 evolution
Oct 31, 2020
TWiEVO 60: Five years of TWiEVO on the future of our past
Sep 25, 2020
TWiEVO 59: The hypothesis giving tree
Aug 28, 2020
TWiEVO 58: Not all coronaviruses ACE2 the test
Aug 13, 2020
TWiEVO 57: SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding evolution blooms
Jun 24, 2020
TWiEVO 56: Revising the drafts of coronavirus evolution
May 20, 2020
TWiEVO 55: Coronavirus evolution from soup to nuts
May 06, 2020
TWiEVO 54: Rough drafts of SARS-CoV-2 science
Apr 25, 2020
TWiEVO 53: Virus evolution by land and by sea and by CoV, part II
Apr 04, 2020
TWiEVO 52: Virus evolution by land and by sea and by CoV
Feb 26, 2020
TWiEVO 51: The starting point paradox
Jan 22, 2020
TWiEVO 50: I'm dreaming of a Y chromosome
Dec 24, 2019
TWiEVO 49: A giant podcast on giant viruses
Nov 29, 2019
TWiEVO 48: Flipping out with choanos on caffeine
Oct 31, 2019
TWiEVO 47: On the origin of beer species
Sep 19, 2019
TWiEVO 46: Can an old tumor teach us new tricks?
Aug 31, 2019
TWiEVO 45: Microbial secrets of mouse-ear cress
Jul 29, 2019
TWiEVO 44: The enemy of my enemy is my phage
Jun 27, 2019
TWiEVO 43: Social evolution with a side of shrimp
May 25, 2019
TWiEVO 42: Who's who in your genome
Apr 24, 2019
TWiEVO 41: Where do baby genes come from?
Mar 20, 2019
TWiEVO 40: Eau de bee
Feb 15, 2019
TWiEVO 39: In a Legionella of their own
Jan 26, 2019
TWiEVO 38: Evolving to evolve
Dec 24, 2018
TWiEVO 37: A tangled tree on the Quammens
Nov 17, 2018
TWiEVO 36: All's not quiet on the telomeric front
Oct 24, 2018
TWiEVO 35: Strawberry sex chromosomes forever
Sep 21, 2018
TWiEVO 34: You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s PON
Aug 16, 2018
TWiEVO 33: Fly by virus
Jul 25, 2018
TWiEVO 32: Never not neutral
Jun 19, 2018
TWiEVO 31: Virus archaeology, or when the human genome is the junk
May 19, 2018
TWiEVO 30: Driving Miss Maize-y
Apr 21, 2018
TWiEVO 29: Evolution on the wing
Mar 21, 2018
TWiEVO 28: Genetics of skin pigmentation in Africa
Feb 28, 2018
TWiEVO 27: Coldevo
Jan 13, 2018
TWiEVO 26: My Scientist Vinny
Dec 07, 2017
TWiEVO 25: Pigeons show the way
Nov 22, 2017
TWiEVO 24: Good viruses visiting bad neighborhoods
Oct 26, 2017
TWiEVO 23: The Alus are going to be alright
Sep 20, 2017
TWiEVO 22: E pluribus cerevisiae
Aug 30, 2017
TWiEVO 21: A virus with a green thumb
Jul 13, 2017
TWiEVO 20: In the company of cnidarians
Jun 20, 2017
TWiEVO 19: The beauty of the story
May 24, 2017
TWiEVO 18: Raiders of the lost orco
Apr 10, 2017
TWiEVO 17: The curious cases of clam cancers
Mar 13, 2017
TWiEVO 16: Breaking in the making of genes
Feb 25, 2017
TWiEVO 15: From cockroaches to grizzly bears
Jan 22, 2017
TWiEVO 14: TWi-light on the Wasatch Front
Dec 22, 2016
TWiEVO 13: This week in ants
Nov 16, 2016
TWiEVO 12: Take a left at the goats
Oct 19, 2016
TWiEVO 11: Microbial accomplices in multicellularity
Sep 27, 2016
TWiEVO 10: Spicing up peppered moths with a selfish gene
Aug 13, 2016
TWiEVO 9: How to crash your gene drive
Jul 05, 2016
TWiEVO 8: Everyone's a little bit Neanderthal
Jun 08, 2016
TWiEVO 7: Pigeon fashion week, feathery boots edition
Apr 23, 2016
TWiEVO 6: Butterflies are free to shuffle
Mar 19, 2016
TWiEVO 5: Looking at straw colored fruit bats through a straw
Feb 20, 2016
TWiEVO 4: Taking the mystery out of the mystery of mysteries
Jan 23, 2016
TWiEVO 3: Recombination is for the birds
Jan 09, 2016
TWiEVO 2: Faster than a speeding virus
Dec 26, 2015
TWiEVO 1: When (scientific) worlds collide
Dec 12, 2015