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Wanna learn about our brain's response to electrical stimulation, filamentous fungi, or carnivore attacks? Well, we are BACK with our new-ish, shortened format for Episode 11 of the monthly podcast CellOut. Listen to your favorite pair of biology nerds, Derek DeVries and Ford Fishman, summarize and discuss a sample of articles from the January 2023 issue of PLoS biology.

SHOW NOTES

Episode Art - PLoS Biology January 2023 Cover: credit Mazal Cohen-Gulkar and Ruth Ashery-Padan

Poem Paper: Chevalier L, Pinar M, Le Borgne R, Durieu C, Peñalva MA, Boudaoud A, et al. (2023) Cell wall dynamics stabilize tip growth in a filamentous fungus. PLoS Biol 21(1): e3001981. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001981

We are BACK with a new, shortened format for Episode 9 of the monthly podcast CellOut. Listen to your favorite pair of biology nerds, Derek DeVries and Ford Fishman, summarize and discuss a sample of articles from the October 2022 issue of PLoS biology. 

Issue Link: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/issue?id=10.1371/issue.pbio.v20.i10

Keywords: biology, life science, open access, scientific journals, science, PLoS, climate change, woodpeckers, neuroscience, bacteria, leaves

SHOW NOTES

Podcast Art - Credit Caroline DeVries

Episode Cover Art - October 2022 PLoS Biology Cover. Image Credit: Joanna Clarke

Cutting Edge (1:09)

Greene CH, Scott-Buechler CM (2022) Algal solutions: Transforming marine aquaculture from the bottom up for a sustainable future. PLoS Biol 20(10): e3001824. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001824

Cell Culture (8:59)

Based on the move Twilight (2008)

Journal Club (21:19)

Jeckel H, Díaz-Pascual F, Skinner DJ, Song B, Jiménez-Siebert E, Strenger K, et al. (2022) Shared biophysical mechanisms determine early biofilm architecture development across different bacterial species. PLoS Biol 20(10): e3001846. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001846

After a brief hiatus, we are BACK with Episode 8 of the monthly podcast CellOut, where your favorite pair of biology nerds, Derek DeVries and Ford Fishman, summarize and discuss a sample of articles from the August and September 2022 issues of PLoS biology. 

Issue Link: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/issue?id=10.1371/issue.pbio.v20.i09 

Keywords: biology, life science, open access, scientific journals, science, PLoS, climate change, woodpeckers, neuroscience, bacteria, leaves 

SHOW NOTES 

Podcast Art - Credit Caroline DeVries 

Episode Cover Art - September 2022 PLoS Biology Cover. Image Credit: mjeedelbr, Flickr 

Cutting Edge (1:36) 

São Pedro VdA, Trierveiler-Pereira L, Baltazar JM (2022) Adapt conservation biology teaching to address eco-anxiety in students. PLoS Biol 20(9): e3001774. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001774 

Jargon Jungle (8:25) 

Dueling hosts, guest to return next month! 

Journal Club (22:32) 

Schuppe ER, Cantin L, Chakraborty M, Biegler MT, Jarvis ER, Chen C-C, et al. (2022) Forebrain nuclei linked to woodpecker territorial drum displays mirror those that enable vocal learning in songbirds. PLoS Biol 20(9): e3001751. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001751 

Cell Culture (42:15) 

Disco Elysium: https://discoelysium.com/

Bite-Size Discoveries (47:40) 

VanWallendael A, Benucci GMN, da Costa PB, Fraser L, Sreedasyam A, Fritschi F, et al. (2022) Host genotype controls ecological change in the leaf fungal microbiome. PLoS Biol 20(8): e3001681. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001681 

Linh NM, Scarpella E (2022) Leaf vein patterning is regulated by the aperture of plasmodesmata intercellular channels. PLoS Biol 20(9): e3001781. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001781 

Moutinho AF, Eyre-Walker A, Dutheil JY (2022) Strong evidence for the adaptive walk model of gene evolution in Drosophila and Arabidopsis. PLoS Biol 20(9): e3001775. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001775 

Zhu Y, Chew KY, Wu M, Karawita AC, McCallum G, Steele LE, et al. (2022) Ancestral SARS-CoV-2, but not Omicron, replicates less efficiently in primary pediatric nasal epithelial cells. PLoS Biol 20(8): e3001728. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001728 

Episode 7 of the monthly podcast CellOut, where your favorite pair of biology nerds, Derek DeVries and Ford Fishman, summarize and discuss a sample of articles from the July 2022 issue of PLoS biology.

Issue Link: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/issue?id=10.1371/issue.pbio.v20.i07

Keywords: biology, life science, open access, scientific journals, science, PLoS, climate change, stem cells, planarians, neuroscience, genetics

SHOW NOTES

Podcast Art - Credit Caroline DeVries

Episode Cover Art - July 2022 PLoS Biology Cover. Image Credit: Quentin Geissmann

Cutting Edge (1:31)

Sparkman, G., Geiger, N. & Weber, E.U. Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by nearly half. Nat Commun 13, 4779 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32412-y

Jargon Jungle (8:53)

Thanks to Chris for trying to come on the show! We'll bring you back soon!

Journal Club (11:18)

Issigonis M, Redkar AB, Rozario T, Khan UW, Mejia-Sanchez R, Lapan SW, et al. (2022) A Krüppel-like factor is required for development and regeneration of germline and yolk cells from somatic stem cells in planarians. PLoS Biol 20(7): e3001472. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001472

Cell Culture (28:48)

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Bite-Size Discoveries (34:12)

Jay P, Tezenas E, Véber A, Giraud T (2022) Sheltering of deleterious mutations explains the stepwise extension of recombination suppression on sex chromosomes and other supergenes. PLoS Biol 20(7): e3001698. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001698

Stone BT, Lin J-Y, Mahmood A, Sanford AJ, Katz DB (2022) LiCl-induced sickness modulates rat gustatory cortical responses. PLoS Biol 20(7): e3001537. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001537

Bai F, Meyer AS, Martin AE (2022) Neural dynamics differentially encode phrases and sentences during spoken language comprehension. PLoS Biol 20(7): e3001713. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001713

Baumgartner ME, Mastrogiannopoulos A, Kucinski I, Langton PF, Piddini E (2022) The Gr64 cluster of gustatory receptors promotes survival and proteostasis of epithelial cells in Drosophila. PLoS Biol 20(7): e3001710. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001710

Episode 6 of the monthly podcast CellOut, where your favorite pair of biology nerds, Derek DeVries and Ford Fishman, summarize and discuss a sample of articles from the June 2022 issue of PLoS biology.

Issue Link: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/issue?id=10.1371/issue.pbio.v20.i06

Keywords: biology, life science, open access, scientific journals, science, PLoS, viruses, bacteria, fish, embryo, neuroscience, jargon, 

SHOW NOTES

Podcast Art - Credit Caroline DeVries

Episode Cover Art - June 2022 PLoS Biology Cover. Image Credit: Erina He, NIH Medical Arts

Cutting Edge (2:59)

Torri A, Jaeger J, Pradeu T, Saleh M-C (2022) The origin of RNA interference: Adaptive or neutral evolution? PLoS Biol 20(6): e3001715. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001715

Jargon Jungle (12:25)

Thanks to Turner for coming on the show!

Reach out to us on twitter or tweet the pokemon that best captures you to #JargonJungle to be considered as our next guest.

Journal Club (20:53)

Zarrella TM, Khare A (2022) Systematic identification of molecular mediators of interspecies sensing in a community of two frequently coinfecting bacterial pathogens. PLoS Biol 20(6): e3001679. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001679

Cell Culture (36:12)

Dark - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5753856/

Bite-Size Discoveries (43:22)

Langlois J, Guilhaumon F, Baletaud F, Casajus N, De Almeida Braga C, Fleuré V, et al. (2022) The aesthetic value of reef fishes is globally mismatched to their conservation priorities. PLoS Biol 20(6): e3001640. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001640

Yang Y, Shi L, Fu X, Ma G, Yang Z, Li Y, et al. (2022) Metabolic and epigenetic dysfunctions underlie the arrest of in vitro fertilized human embryos in a senescent-like state. PLoS Biol 20(6): e3001682. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001682

Khan M, Hartmann AH, O’Donnell MP, Piccione M, Pandey A, Chao P-H, et al. (2022) Context-dependent reversal of odorant preference is driven by inversion of the response in a single sensory neuron type. PLoS Biol 20(6): e3001677. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001677

Bentley MA, Yates CA, Hein J, Preston GM, Foster KR (2022) Pleiotropic constraints promote the evolution of cooperation in cellular groups. PLoS Biol 20(6): e3001626. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001626

Episode 5 of the monthly podcast CellOut, where your favorite pair of biology nerds, Derek DeVries and Ford Fishman, summarize and discuss a sample of articles from the May 2022 issue of PLoS biology.

Issue Link: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/issue?id=10.1371/issue.pbio.v20.i05

Keywords: biology, life science, open access, scientific journals, science, PLoS, pandemic, coral, climate change, paleobiology, neuroscience

SHOW NOTES

Podcast Art - Credit Caroline DeVries

Episode Cover Art - May 2022 PLoS Biology Cover. Image Credit: Dr Charlotte G Kenchington

Cutting Edge (1:33)

Rice BL, Lessler J, McKee C, Metcalf CJE (2022) Why do some coronaviruses become pandemic threats when others do not? PLoS Biol 20(5): e3001652. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001652

Jargon Jungle (9:05)

Thanks to Jess for coming on the show!

Reach out to us on twitter or tweet your favorite combination to #JargonJungle to be considered as our next guest.

Journal Club (20:07)

Portilho-Ramos RdC, Titschack J, Wienberg C, Siccha Rojas MG, Yokoyama Y, Hebbeln D (2022) Major environmental drivers determining life and death of cold-water corals through time. PLoS Biol 20(5): e3001628. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001628

Cell Culture (44:17)

Arrival - Villeneuve, Denis. Arrival. Paramount Pictures, 2016.

Derek's song uses the tune and chords from "I'm with you" by Vance Joy, it is a sad parody and not at all original.

Bite-Size Discoveries (42:21)

Eden R, Manica A, Mitchell EG (2022) Metacommunity analyses show an increase in ecological specialisation throughout the Ediacaran period. PLoS Biol 20(5): e3001289. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001289

Shafik SH, Richards SN, Corry B, Martin RE (2022) Mechanistic basis for multidrug resistance and collateral drug sensitivity conferred to the malaria parasite by polymorphisms in PfMDR1 and PfCRT. PLoS Biol 20(5): e3001616. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001616

Petre B, Kragel P, Atlas LY, Geuter S, Jepma M, Koban L, et al. (2022) A multistudy analysis reveals that evoked pain intensity representation is distributed across brain systems. PLoS Biol 20(5): e3001620. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001620

von Kortzfleisch VT, Ambrée O, Karp NA, Meyer N, Novak J, Palme R, et al. (2022) Do multiple experimenters improve the reproducibility of animal studies? PLoS Biol 20(5): e3001564. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001564

Episode 4 of the monthly podcast CellOut, where your favorite pair of biology nerds, Derek DeVries and Ford Fishman, summarize and discuss a sample of articles from the April 2022 issue of PLoS biology. 

Issue Link: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/issue?id=10.1371/issue.pbio.v20.i04 

Keywords: biology, life science, open access, scientific journals, science, PLoS, transmissible vaccines, evolution 

SHOW NOTES 

Podcast Art - Credit Caroline DeVries 

Episode Cover Art - April 2022 PLoS Biology Cover. Image Credit: Muthugapatti Kandasamy, Adam Sateriale, and Boris Striepen 

Cutting Edge (0:57) 

Cheng L, Mishra H (2022) Why did only one genus of insects, Halobates, take to the high seas? PLoS Biol 20(4): e3001570. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001570 

Jargon Jungle (11:12) 

Thanks to Josh for coming on the show! You can find him on twitter @PippettuaJones 

Reply the Episode 4 announcement by @CellOutPodcast with the keyword "Macrolide" if you want to prove you can handle the Jargon Jungle next episode! 

Journal Club (20:15) 

Griffiths ME, Broos A, Bergner LM, Meza DK, Suarez NM, da Silva Filipe A, et al. (2022) Longitudinal deep sequencing informs vector selection and future deployment strategies for transmissible vaccines. PLoS Biol 20(4): e3001580. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001580 

Cell Culture (36:56) 

Elden Ring - https://en.bandainamcoent.eu/elden-ring/elden-ring

Benkarim O, Paquola C, Park B-y, Kebets V, Hong S-J, Vos de Wael R, et al. (2022) Population heterogeneity in clinical cohorts affects the predictive accuracy of brain imaging. PLoS Biol 20(4): e3001627. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001627 

Bite-Size Discoveries (42:21) 

Ciesielski HM, Nishida H, Takano T, Fukuhara A, Otani T, Ikegawa Y, et al. (2022) Erebosis, a new cell death mechanism during homeostatic turnover of gut enterocytes. PLoS Biol 20(4): e3001586. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001586 

Derosiere G, Thura D, Cisek P, Duque J (2022) Hasty sensorimotor decisions rely on an overlap of broad and selective changes in motor activity. PLoS Biol 20(4): e3001598. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001598 

Simonetti B, Guo Q, Giménez-Andrés M, Chen K-E, Moody ERR, Evans AJ, et al. (2022) SNX27–Retromer directly binds ESCPE-1 to transfer cargo proteins during endosomal recycling. PLoS Biol 20(4): e3001601. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001601 

English ED, Guérin A, Tandel J, Striepen B (2022) Live imaging of the Cryptosporidium parvum life cycle reveals direct development of male and female gametes from type I meronts. PLoS Biol 20(4): e3001604. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001604

Episode 3 of the monthly podcast CellOut, where your favorite pair of biology nerds, Derek DeVries and Ford Fishman, summarize and discuss a sample of articles from the March 2022 issue of PLoS biology.

Issue Link: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/issue?id=10.1371/issue.pbio.v20.i03 Keywords: biology, life science, open access, scientific journals, science, PLoS, experimental evolution, neuroscience,

SHOW NOTES

Podcast Art - Credit Caroline DeVries

Episode Cover Art - March 2022 PLoS Biology Cover. Image Credit - Betül Yücel

Cutting Edge (1:07)

Pariente N, on behalf of the PLOS Biology Staff Editors (2022) Premiering pre-registration at PLOS Biology. PLoS Biol 20(3): e3001611. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001611

Jargon Jungle (10:07)

Special thanks to Dillon Martin, you were great!

Journal Club (18:34)

Dudin O, Wielgoss S, New AM, Ruiz-Trillo I (2022) Regulation of sedimentation rate shapes the evolution of multicellularity in a close unicellular relative of animals. PLoS Biol 20(3): e3001551. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001551

Experimental Evolution Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plVk4NVIUh8&ab_channel=HarvardMedicalSchool

Cell Culture (36:42)

The Expanse - James S. A. Corey, TV adaptation on Amazon Prime

Jang KK, Kaczmarek ME, Dallari S, Chen Y-H, Tada T, Axelrad J, et al. (2022) Variable susceptibility of intestinal organoid–derived monolayers to SARS-CoV-2 infection. PLoS Biol 20(3): e3001592. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001592

Bite-Size Discoveries (42:08)

Sun DS, Kissler SM, Kanjilal S, Olesen SW, Lipsitch M, Grad YH (2022) Analysis of multiple bacterial species and antibiotic classes reveals large variation in the association between seasonal antibiotic use and resistance. PLoS Biol 20(3): e3001579. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001579

Vincent MS, Comas Hervada C, Sebban-Kreuzer C, Le Guenno H, Chabalier M, Kosta A, et al. (2022) Dynamic proton-dependent motors power type IX secretion and gliding motility in Flavobacterium. PLoS Biol 20(3): e3001443. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001443

Jiang M, Shin J, Simeon R, Chang J-Y, Meng R, Wang Y, et al. (2022) Structural dynamics of receptor recognition and pH-induced dissociation of full-length Clostridioides difficile Toxin B. PLoS Biol 20(3): e3001589. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001589

Rosen BQ, Halgren E (2022) An estimation of the absolute number of axons indicates that human cortical areas are sparsely connected. PLoS Biol 20(3): e3001575. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001575

Episode 2 of the monthly podcast CellOut, where we summarize and discuss a sample of articles from the February 2022 issue of PLoS biology. 

Issue Link: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/issue?id=10.1371/issue.pbio.v20.i02 

Keywords: biology, life science, open access, scientific journals, science, PLoS, ocean acidification, meta-analysis 

SHOW NOTES 

Podcast Art - Credit Caroline DeVries Episode 

Cover Art - February 2022 PLoS Biology Cover. Image Credit - Fredrik Jutfelt 

Cutting Edge (0:43) 

Pollack R, Cobb M (2022) Are there any good experiments that should not be done? PLoS Biol 20(2): e3001539. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001539 

Jargon Jungle (09:11) 

Journal Club (18:05) 

Clements JC, Sundin J, Clark TD, Jutfelt F (2022) Meta-analysis reveals an extreme “decline effect” in the impacts of ocean acidification on fish behavior. PLoS Biol 20(2): e3001511. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001511 

Cell Culture (35:09) 

Outer Wilds - https://www.mobiusdigitalgames.com/outer-wilds.html 

Bite-Size Discoveries (53:19) 

Abdill RJ, Adamowicz EM, Blekhman R (2022) Public human microbiome data are dominated by highly developed countries. PLoS Biol 20(2): e3001536. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001536 

Chang C-c, Cox DTC, Fan Q, Nghiem TPL, Tan CLY, Oh RRY, et al. (2022) People’s desire to be in nature and how they experience it are partially heritable. PLoS Biol 20(2): e3001500. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001500 

Finch E, Lowe R, Fischinger S, de St Aubin M, Siddiqui SM, Dayal D, et al. (2022) SARS-CoV-2 antibodies protect against reinfection for at least 6 months in a multicentre seroepidemiological workplace cohort. PLoS Biol 20(2): e3001531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001531 

Vanderplow AM, Kermath BA, Bernhardt CR, Gums KT, Seablom EN, Radcliff AB, et al. (2022) A feature of maternal sleep apnea during gestation causes autism-relevant neuronal and behavioral phenotypes in offspring. PLoS Biol 20(2): e3001502. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001502 

Otte WM, Vinkers CH, Habets PC, van IJzendoorn DGP, Tijdink JK (2022) Analysis of 567,758 randomized controlled trials published over 30 years reveals trends in phrases used to discuss results that do not reach statistical significance. PLoS Biol 20(2): e3001562. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001562