Gautam Dey on Nuclear Remodelling

In this episode, I speak with Prof. Gautam Dey. Gautam is a group  leader at the EMBL and his group studies the evolutionary origins of nuclear organization and architecture. Gautam dives into the details of his latest work and also touches on some other very interesting ideas in evolutionary biology. 

 

(00:25) -- motivation for studying nuclear organization

(04:18) -- main mechanisms of nuclear division

(05:50) -- how nuclear assembly/disassembly works 

(07:20) -- mechanism of nuclear division in fission yeast

(10:15) -- putting this mechanism in an evolutionary context

(11:47) -- future experimental plans

(13:06) -- impact of covid on science

(14:45) -- science in US vs Europe

(17:33) -- influence of theatre on Gautam 

(19:15) -- evolutionary origin of eukaryotic cells

(23:13) -- favorite idea in evolutionary biology