Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove
Vincent, Rich, and Alan consider how to reform the scientific enterprise to make it more effective and robust.
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Alan – PubMed PubReMiner
Rich – Intentional Blindness (YouTube)
Vincent – Vaccine infographic
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Ken - Wattpad
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, Dickson Despommier, and Connor Bamford
Connor joins the TWiV team to discuss bats as hosts for major mammalian paramyxoviruses.
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Connor – Microbiology Twitter journal club
Alan – Where the Wild Types Are (YouTube)
Rich – May 14th: Smallpox vaccination day
Dickson – Searching for pore-fection (Science)
Vincent – RRResearch
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Stephen - Every Major’s Terrible (xkcd)
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, and Michael J. Imperiale
Michael joins the TWiV crew to discuss the recently published influenza H5N1 transmission paper and how it was viewed by the NSABB.
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Alan – 18th century shipping mapped
Rich - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Vincent – Air France 447 (Telegraph)
Listener Pick of the Week
Josh - Vaccines course by Dr. Paul Offit
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent, Rich, and Kathy discuss Cotia virus, a new poxvirus, Orf virus infections associated with handling goats and lamb, and the innate immune response to prions.
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Kathy – Astronomy Picture of the Day (especially this and this)
Rich - Tom Lehrer Element Song (YouTube)
Vincent – Albert B. Sabin Archives
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Spencer – Netter’s Infectious Diseases by Elaine C. Jong and Dennis L. Stevens
Richard – Germs, Genes & Civilization by David P. Clark
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
Vincent, Alan, and Rich review association of an interferon-induced protein with severe influenza, and stabilization of HCV RNA by a microRNA.
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Alan – Micro Empire (Vimeo)
Rich - Census of marine life
Vincent – Pinterest
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Mark – The Secret Life of Plankton (YouTube)
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Gertrud Radu
Gertrud joins the TWiVoners to review how dengue virus infection of mosquitoes alters blood feeding behavior, and gene therapy as practiced by parasitoid wasps.
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Gertrud – Bat on a plane! (MMWR)
Alan – The Rings of Earth (YouTube)
Rich - Giant Magellan telescope
Vincent – Hepatitis C new drug pipeline
Listener Pick of the Week
Ricardo – Evolution: The Natural History of Animal Skeletons
Peter – Self-assembly line (YouTube)
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Tyler Sharp
The TWiValians meet up with Tyler Sharp for a discussion on the Epidemic Intelligence Service and controlling dengue.
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Tyler – Co-infection with dengue and Leptospira (Emerging Inf Dis)
Alan – The Winged Scourge (YouTube)
Rich - Deepsea Challenge
Vincent – Why did a US advisory board reverse its stance? (Ed Yong)
Listener Pick of the Week
Sasha – Microfluidic Future
Adam – The Conversation
Jim – ENIAC Programmers Project
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Connor Bamford, Wendy Barclay, Richard Elliott, and Ron Fouchier
A discussion of avian influenza H5N1 transmission experiments in ferrets and novel bunyaviruses at the 2012 Spring Conference of the Society for General Microbiology in Dublin, Ireland.
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Connor – Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2012
Vincent – Thoughts on academic scientists giving media interviews
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
Vincent, Alan, and Rich answer listener email about MS, CFS, EBV, B cells, virii, influenza B, scientific papers, and more.
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Rich – Alan Alda’s Flame Challenge (NY Times article, Science editorial)
Alan – ChronoZoom
Vincent – Academic Publishing is Broken by Michael P. Taylor
Listener Pick of the Week
Joel – Fighting a dengue outbreak by Tyler M. Sharp (parts one and two)
Sven-Urban – Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Matt Frieman
Vincent, Alan, and Matt discuss herpes simplex encephalitis in children with innate immune deficiency, and the local response to microneedle-based influenza skin immunization.
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Matt – Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology
Alan – Digital Imagine Institute
Vincent – iPad apps Goodreader and Notability
Listener Pick of the Week
Jane -Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth by Trevor Norton
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