ArchaeaCast

By: Priyanka Chatterjee Connor Hines Alex Phillips Theopi Rados
  • Summary

  • A podcast about the coolest domain of life: Archaea. Here we talk about some of the most interesting organisms on Earth! Join us to learn about halophiles, acidophiles, hyperthermophiles, methanogens - you name it! Every week, we talk about some awesome Archaeal science and interview an amazing guest.

    Chatterjee, Hines, Phillips, Rados (2024)
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Episodes
  • History of Archaea: Our nice ancient neighbors ("Grandpa, is that you?")
    Oct 30 2024

    Welcome to ArchaeaCast! In our first episode, our hosts Priyanka Chatterjee and Connor Hines talk about the history of Archaea, how we discovered that they were different from bacteria, and discuss their unique classification.

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    For nomenclature changes, current nomenclature can be found at: https://gtdb.ecogenomic.org/genome?gid=GCA_003086455.1

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    Bibliography:

    Singer, Charles J. (1931). A short history of biology, a general introduction to the study of living things. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

    Woese, Carl R., Otto Kandler, and Mark L. Wheelis. "Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 87.12 (1990): 4576-4579.

    Cavalier-Smith, Thomas. "A revised six-kingdom system of life." Biological Reviews 73.3 (1998): 203-266.

    Cavalier-Smith, Thomas. "Only six kingdoms of life." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences 271.1545 (2004): 1251-1262.

    Ruggiero, Michael A., et al. "A higher level classification of all living organisms." PloS one 10.4 (2015): e0119248.

    Koonin, Eugene V. "Origin of eukaryotes from within archaea, archaeal eukaryome and bursts of gene gain: eukaryogenesis just made easier?." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 370, no. 1678 (2015): 20140333.

    Noller, H. Carl Woese (1928–2012). Nature 493, 610 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/493610a

    Pauling, L., & Zuckerkandl, E. (1963). Chemical paleogenetics. Acta Chem. Scand, 17, S9–S16.

    Woese, C. R., & Fox, G. E. (1977). Phylogenetic structure of the prokaryotic domain: The primary kingdoms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 74(11), 5088–5090.\

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    ArchaeaCast episodes drop every other Tuesday on your favorite audio platform!

    We’d love to hear from you! Contact us at archaeacast@gmail.com

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    23 mins
  • Archaea: What even are they?
    Oct 22 2024

    Welcome to ArchaeaCast! In this primer episode, our hosts Priyanka Chatterjee and Connor Hines introduce our podcast and subject of study - Archaea!

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    Bibliography:

    Cavicchioli R, Curmi PM, Saunders N, Thomas T. Pathogenic archaea: do they exist? Bioessays. 2003 Nov;25(11):1119-28. doi: 10.1002/bies.10354. PMID: 14579252.

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    Pictures of Haloquadratum walsbyi, misnomered as a bacterium, can be found here: https://www.nature.com/articles/news041011-3

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    Current, more up-to-date nomenclature can be found at: https://gtdb.ecogenomic.org/genome?gid=GCA_003086455.1

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    ArchaeaCast episodes drop every other Tuesday on your favorite audio platform!

    We’d love to hear from you! Contact us at archaeacast@gmail.com

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    7 mins

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