From Indiana University, Vincent speaks with Ankur, Julia, and Xindan about their careers and their work on horizontal gene transfer, quorum sensing, and chromosome organization in bacteria.

Guests: Ankur Dalia, Julia Van Kessel, and Xindan Wang

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Links for this episode:

• Dalia laboratory
• Van Kessel laboratory
• Wang laboratory
• Indiana U Dept of Biology
• Vibrio DNA uptake and chitin (Environ Micro)
• Activation of quorum-sensing genes (Mol Micro)
• Structural maintenance of chromosome complexes (Science)