Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
Guest: Paul Duprex
Paul joins the TWiV team to discuss the current moratorium on viral research to alter transmission, range and resistance, infectivity and immunity, and pathogenesis.
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Alan – In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Paul – Saving the lives of our dogs (blog post)
Kathy – New all-female Lego set
Dickson – Female storm-chaser
Vincent – Despommier Photo Art
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Jacob – Exaggeration in news and press releases (BMJ)
Peter – Quartet game (photos: one, two, three, four, five)
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Host: Vincent Racaniello
Guest: John Coffin
Vincent speaks with John Coffin about his career studying retroviruses, including working with Howard Temin, endogenous retroviruses, XMRV, chronic fatigue syndrome and prostate cancer, HIV/AIDS, and his interest in growing cranberries.
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiV gang reviews ten fascinating, compelling, and riveting virology stories from 2014.
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Ten virology stories of 2014
- Ebola virus outbreak (TWiV 314, 309, 308, 307, 306, 305, 304, 303, 302, 298, 297, 283)
- Directional uncoating of rhinovirus RNA (TWiV 267)
- Pandemic pathogen controversy (TWiV 287)
- Viral evolution (TWiV 275)
- Borna virus inhibition by endogenous DNA (TWiV 303)
- MERS-CoV in dromedary camels (TWiV special, TWiV 287)
- Oncolytic measles virus (TWiV 298)
- Amazing norovirus findings (TWiV 312 and 313)
- Toxin delivery to aphids (TWiV 272)
- The Salk Legacy (TWiV 281)
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Alan – Mystery photos from CERN
Rich – Adam E. Cohen: Bringing bioelectricity to light
Kathy – Wired’s top microbe stories of 2014
Dickson – Mouse joke
Vincent – The Science of Epidemics (Time Inc Special)
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Neva - Sir Bacteriophage
Sagi – An unboring polio documentary
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Host: Vincent Racaniello
Guests: Eurico Arruda, Gustavo Acrani, Cintia Bittar, Tatiana Domitrovic, and Suellen Galvino-Costa
On his second trip to Brazil, Vincent joins Eurico to speak with four young virologists, Gustavo, Cintia, Tatiana, and Suellen, about their work and their prospects for careers in science.
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Photos of my trip are at facebook.com/thisweekinvirology
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Host: Vincent Racaniello
Guests: Kartik Chandran, Ganjam Kalpana, and Margaret Kielian
Vincent travels to Albert Einstein College of Medicine where he speaks with Kartik, Ganjam, and Margaret about their work on Ebolavirus entry, a tumor suppressor that binds the HIV-1 integrase, and the entry of togaviruses and flaviviruses into cells.
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVbolans discuss the finding that human noroviruses, major causes of gastroenteritis, can for the first time be propagated in B cell cultures, with the help of enteric bacteria.
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This episode of TWiV is brought to you by the Department of Microbiology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Composed of over 20 virology labs, all centralized in one building in the heart of New York City, this department is a perfect fit for anyone with an interest in pursuing virus research. The Department is presently looking to recruit any prospective graduate students to apply to our program by the December 1st deadline. Interested postdocs are also encouraged to contact faculty of interest. For more information about the Department, please visit www.mssm.edu/MIC.
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Alan – How Ebola airlifts work
Kathy - Fred Murphy’s Foundations of Virology
Rich – Pendulum wave
Dickson – Young Dipterists
Vincent – Microbes After Hours: Ebola and TWiV iPhone 6 case
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Alane – Health Map
Todd – Formaldehyde in vaccines
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