282: At-home evolution with yeast

TWiM presents a protocol for evolving caffeine-tolerant yeast by high school students in the home, and how predator-prey dynamics change when multiple bacteria grow together in biofilms.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson, Petra Levin.

Guest: Mark O. Martin

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Links for this episode

• Caffeine-tolerant yeast selected at home (microPub Biology)
• yEvo Lab
• Vision and change in undergraduate biology (NAS)
• CURE in a box (JMBE)
• EvolvingStem
• EvolvingStem: Evolution-in-action curriculum (BMC)
• Spatial ecology of predation (PNAS)
• Predatory bacteria: From curiosity to curative (Trends Micro)
• Combating antimicrobial resistance with predatory Bdellovibrio (YouTube)
• Bdellovibrio attacking E.coli (YouTube)
• From one, many (YouTube)
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