Episodes

  • Down and Out in Volvox and Algae // I Could Have Just Read This Paper [18]
    Feb 2 2026

    This week's paper is "Dynamics of a Volvox Embryo Turning Itself Inside Out” by Stephanie Höhn, Aurelia R. Honerkamp-Smith, Pierre A. Haas, Philipp Khuc Trong, and Raymond E. Goldstein

    Paper link: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.178101

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    40 mins
  • The Anoxiest Eye // This is Bez's Jam [17]
    Jan 26 2026

    The paper is “Oxygen-free metabolism in the bird inner retina supported by the pecten” by Christian Damsgaard, Mia Viuf Skøtt, Catherine J. A. Williams, Hans Malte, Camilla Kruse Kidmose, Morten Busk, Karin Dedek, Andreas H. Konradsen, Anne Sofie Stengel Rasmussen, Jesper Skovhus Thomsen, Anna V. G. T. Mikkelsen, Katrine S. Johannsen, Mikkel Vendelbo, Niels Peter Revsbech, Coen P. H. Elemans, Henrik Mouritsen, Joanna Kalucka, Lin Lin, Nina Kerting Iversen, Tobias Wang, Henrik Lauridsen & Jens Randel Nyengaard

    Paper link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09978-w

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    44 mins
  • A Map of the Rubisco Kinetics // The Worst Episode We've Done [16]
    Jan 19 2026

    The paper is “A map of the rubisco biochemical landscape” by Noam Prywes, Naiya R. Phillips, Luke M. Oltrogge, Sebastian Lindner, Leah J. Taylor-Kearney, Yi-Chin Candace Tsai, Benoit de Pins, Aidan E. Cowan, Hana A. Chang, Renée Z. Wang, Laina N. Hall, Daniel Bellieny-Rabelo, Hunter M. Nisonoff, Rachel F. Weissman, Avi I. Flamholz, David Ding, Abhishek Y. Bhatt, Oliver Mueller-Cajar, Patrick M. Shih, Ron Milo & David F. Savage

    Paper link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08455-0

    Episode titles are usually puns off songs or books, but in this case the paper title was already very close to a book! So it just changed a tiny bit.

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    38 mins
  • The Viral Chiral Twist // Our Scientific Aesthetics [15]
    Jan 12 2026

    “Reconfigurable self-assembly through chiral control of interfacial tension” by Thomas Gibaud, Edward Barry, Mark J. Zakhary, Mir Henglin, Andrew Ward, Yasheng Yang, Cristina Berciu, Rudolf Oldenbourg, Michael F. Hagan, Daniela Nicastro, Robert B. Meyer & our PhD advisor: Zvonimir Dogic

    A community voted paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10769 selected from our 2025 Paper Draft.

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    51 mins
  • The Amazing Adventures of Trachea & Esophagus // Experimental bravery [14]
    Jan 5 2026

    Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65644-9

    “Convergent flow-mediated mesenchymal force drives embryonic foregut constriction and splitting” by Rui Yan, Ludwig A. Hoffmann, Panagiotis Oikonomou, Deng Li, ChangHee Lee, Hasreet K. Gill, Alessandro Mongera, Nandan L. Nerurkar, L. Mahadevan, and Clifford J. Tabin.

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    54 mins
  • Looking through a glass algae // Ghost-written by diatoms [13]
    Dec 29 2025

    Paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01332-6

    “Diatom ultrastructural diversity across controlled and natural environments” by Serena Flori, Felix Mikus, Eliott Flaum, Kevin Moog, Sarah Guessoum, Thomas Beavis, Soraya M. Zwahlen, Inés Romero-Brey, Viola Oorshot, Marine Olivetta, Melissa Steele-Ogus, Ellen Yeh, the whole Mobile Labs Team, Omaya Dudin, Yannick Schwab, Gautam Dey, and Flora Vincent

    Last call to vote for which paper we cover in Episode 15!! https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-15-vote-145692226

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    44 mins
  • The Cells My Destination // Our Understanding Is Limited [12]
    Dec 22 2025

    Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk1495

    “Quantum imaging of biological organisms through spatial and polarization entanglement” by Yide Zhang, Zhe He, Xin Tong, David C. Garrett, Rui Ca , and Lihong V. Wang

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    45 mins
  • A Cycle of One’s Own // A Necessary and Sufficient Podcast [11]
    Dec 15 2025

    Paper: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)01031-0

    “Cytoplasmic division cycles without the nucleus and mitotic CDK/cyclin complexes” by Anand Bakshi, Fabio Echegaray Iturra, Andrew Alamban, Miquel Rosas-Salvans, Sophie Dumont, and Mustafa G. Aydogan

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    Check out Preprints in Motion's interview with the authors of this paper: https://preprintsinmotion.wordpress.com/2022/10/05/divide-and-conquer-cytoplasmic-divisions-without-nuclei/

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    58 mins