TWiV 32: Influenza in silico

May 17, 2009

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Raul Rabadan

Vincent, Alan, and Raul Rabadan converse about polio survivors in iron lungs, bocavirus, structure of mimivirus, and genome sequence analysis of influenza H1N1 viruses.

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Links for this episode:
Death of Marsha Mason, who lived 60 years in an iron lung
First discovery of bocavirus in human stool
Structural studies of the giant mimivirus
Pandemic potential of H1N1 influenza virus
Was swine flu a lab accident? Bloomberg and NY Times articles
Hong Kong virologist says new H1N1 strain is ‘unstable’
Article by John Barry on site of origin of 1918 influenza

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Alan The Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia
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Raul Science and New England Journal articles on H1N1 influenza

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  • Mira E.
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  • Jambo
    Doctor,
    How are you?
    I am a Japanese doctoral student and my major is influenza virus, I like your program very much, but my Englishe is poor, I can't grab all informations from your introduction and discussion, so I want to ask you a question, is there transcript for your episode? just like the program "Futures in Biotech" with transcript.
    Thanks
    Best wishes
    Yours
    Jambo
  • I'm working on having transcripts made for TWiV. We'll make an
    announcement when they are available.
  • Phillip SanMiguel
    This is the 1st of your podcasts I've listened to. Heard about you first on the recent episode of Futures in Biotech.

    Sorry to take you to task in my first comment on your site, but you seemed to be implying that Marc's FIB podcast was the first--or at least a very early science podcast. I can only surmise that you have never heard of _This Week in Science_? See:

    http://www.twis.org/archive.html

    and

    http://www.twis.org/

    Not only doesTWiS pre-date the 2006 first episode of FIB by more than half a decade, but it pre-dates This Week in Tech, episode zero, itself. Episode zero of TWiT is dated Jan, 2004. Whereas TWiS archive go back to the beginning of 2000.
  • No problem - we are always happy to be corrected. This is a great
    feature of the new media - interactivity with the audience. I am aware
    of TWiS. I didn't mean to imply that FIB was the first, but I
    understand it might have sounded that way. So was TWiS the first
    science podcast? Or are you aware of any others?
  • Phillip SanMiguel
    I am unaware of the any earlier science podcasts. 2000? That is like the early Cambrian epoch of the web.
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