336 - Sweet Sake and Spoiled Spores

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4.8 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 - Returning guest Jen Gallagher (@yeastychic) has brought along two former students to talk about their continued research into the world of yeast! We’re excited to be joined by Matt Winas, currently the lead scientist at Imperial Yeast Labs, and Postdoctoral Research Apoorva Ravishankar. First up, we chat with Matt about his work on sake yeast hybridization and how yeast respond toxic metallic nanoparticles.

00:28:21 - Yeast make all manner of drinks so let’s talk about that. Apoorva eschews the yeast theme with a hot cup of coffee (with cream and sugar) and the gang reminisces about the coffee shop closest to their lab at WVU. Matt is enjoying a Suss It Out rye IPA from Level Cross Brewing Company, one of the perks of working for a yeast company. Jen is honoring her scientific progeny with a Baby Cakes stout from Tribus Beer Co. Ryan had a different beer lined up but is instead going with a Hop Farmin Miner from Weathered Ground Brewery in WV.

00:37:26 - Next we chat with Apoorva about her research on exactly how yeast responds to glyphosate-based herbicides, which are heavily used in agriculture and gardening and how a chemical designed to control/kill plants can have some dramatic responses on yeast.

01:05:09 - PaleoPOWs are a lot like yeast, you can wake them up with a little bit of warm water and sugar. First up, we thank George H. for being a recurring PayPal donor to the show . Thanks, George! And we wrap up by letting Jen respond to her own feedback regarding the sequencing of mitochondrial DNA mentioned in episode 331. Always good to get extra clarification from an expert!

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Music credit: Budding - Broke For Free
Audio Production by Rob Heath

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0:00.0	I remember one of the first times I met Jen, she pulled her laptop out of her bag and it was dripping with water.
0:07.8	Just like it was normal.
0:10.2	We were like at a colloquium and I'm like sitting behind her and it's just like, it's like driven water.
0:15.5	I'm like, does anyone else see that?
0:18.5	That's not normal.
0:19.8	Was the Kolokam in a cave?
0:21.9	Because otherwise that's not correct.
0:23.6	No, I was running late and I threw my water bottle in the bag and it wasn't sealed all the way.
0:28.8	And so it was a waterproof bag.
0:31.2	Yeah, but that just means it keeps the water in.
0:33.5	If you put water inside a waterproof bag.
0:37.6	Yeah. Amazing. I never broke a computer a waterproof bag. Yeah.
0:38.5	Amazing.
0:39.2	I never broke a computer that way again.
0:42.0	From science sort of.com, you're listening to Science Sort of you are listening to Episode 336.
1:06.2	Our theme this episode is sweet sake and spoiled spores.
1:10.3	I am your host, Ryan Haupt, and joining me to talk about things that are science, things that are sort of science and things that wish they were.
1:15.4	Science is former guest to the show, returning champion.
1:19.4	Jen Gallagher, how you doing, Jen?
1:20.9	I'm doing well.
1:21.8	Thank you very much.
1:23.4	And we are joined by two of your students.
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