Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Julie Overbaugh, and Stacey Schultz-Cherry
Vincent, Rich, Julie and Stacey recorded TWiV at the 30th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Virology in Minneapolis, where they discussed the role of neutralizing antibodies in protection against HIV-1 infection, and astroviruses, agents of gastroenteritis.
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Links for this episode:
- HIV-1 neutralizing antibodies and risk of infant infection (J Virol)
- Astrovirus increases epithelial barrier (J Virol)
- Virology special reviews issue (open access)
- Don Ganem interrupted by fire alarm at ASV (YouTube)
- History of structural virology
- ASV 2011 at Minneapolis
- Photographs of TWiV at ASV
- Photographs of ASV 2011
- TWiV on Facebook
- Letters read on TWiV 143
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